Photo / Slide Animation of the Fun Kind

Many of you have thanked me for turning you on to the Blurb digital photo publishing tool. Continuing in that vein, I want to make you aware of a web site called Animoto.

The concept and the execution is really simple. You select a set of digital photos based on some theme and upload them to the Animoto web site. You then select a sound track (classical, jazz, rap, electronica, etc.) to go with the photos. And last, you tell Animoto to create a video combining the photos and music. The process is fun and the results can be awesome.

When finished, you can email a link to the video to anyone. You can also post the video to web sites like this blog. That's exactly what I did with this sample video created from photos taken on a recent trip to Munich.

I'd venture to guess that there are also some commercial uses for this service. For example, if you are a vendor who will be going to a trade show, you could create a pretty compelling video to replace those ugly PowerPoint presentations you may already have.

Give it a try.