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Ever Wanted to Create Your Own Political Cartoon? Now You Can With Just a Few Clicks!

Each Presidential election is surrounded by political cartoons and satire, which are usually left to cartoonists and comedians to dictate. But not anymore. A new program released today allows the general public to create their own animated political cartoon videos — no drawing, downloading or special software required.

GoAnimate, a free suite of web applications that enables users to create their own animated videos, added a collection of political characters and backgrounds focused on the U.S. Presidential election.

GoAnimate Adds Political Characters for the U.S. Presidential Election for Animated Videos

You choose the characters. You choose the dialogue. (Image: GoAnimate)

“We took notice when many of our user-created videos turned political, even without the appropriate characters and backgrounds,” said Gary Lipkowitz, Vice President of Corporate Development, “Our aim has always been to provide a fun mode of expression for the masses. Candidates and pundits are constantly talking at us, and people are trying to shout back in social media, but most of the tools are just text. So we launched this project to provide rich media feedback tools — to empower everyday people to turn their comments into commentary —  whether they’re responding to the debates, campaigning for a cause or recreating key political moments. We can’t wait to see what people create.”

Here’s an example I created featuring Michelle Bachmann and President Barak Obama. All I did was chose the people and the backdrop, inputted text, and wa-la:

Lipkowitz told The Blaze in an email that this program gives users an opportunity to weigh in on what they can only wish the politicians would have said.

“Politicians and lobbyists are talking at us. GoAnimate brings the public into the political conversation and let’s you talk back. And, of course, we all have our opinions,” he said.

Be it Bachmann, Rick Perry, President Obama or John Boehner, you can control their dialogue and even facial expressions through GoAnimate’s computer animate platform.

Take a crack at making your own video here.

Comments (46)

  • Doc Brown
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 5:24pm

    Here’s one…just a little refresher.

    http://goanimate.com/movie/0IxAWWJond38?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0Ix4rpd4C4kg

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  • qzak491
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 12:50pm

    We don’t need this we have the real thing our own live political cartoon, it’s called Washington. To bad we can’t program those idiots to do what we want. They say truth is stranger than fiction.

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  • krookedken
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 10:26am

    Had to do it… http://youtu.be/D86w-MuRzu8

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 10:49am

      I wouldn’t touch that move-maker with a ten foot pole. You know that they’re collecting information on citizens to sell and making a political movies tells just where you stand.

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  • Tony Cat
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 10:02am

    Can we get back on Topic??

    Leave your comments for this hilarious Debate with Cain/Gingrich vs Obama/Biden…

    http://goanimate.com/movie/0Zy4LclcDo7k?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0Kje59NwxGT8

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  • proudpatriot77
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 9:18am

    I have a question. Why would the blaze post a story about the fast-food restaurant fight, allow a certain number of comments, and then decide to shut off comments when they dont agree with those particular comments? That is not my idea of letting the truth blaze the way. Very disappointing and concerning.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 9:46am

      Oh, you‘re just finding out that the Blaze regularly censors comments that don’t fit their Neoconservative narrative?

      Well, well, what do you think they do to me, I’m a Black Tea Party member who supports the End the Fed protests and who resists and protests the Nazi Police State.

      Welcome to the “Blaze”, AKA Lucifer’s Sanctuary, AKA, Hell.

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  • watchmany2k
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 9:12am

    Well, I had to give it a go I have a vid at
    http://www.watchman2012.com

    tons of energy conservation ideas there, save some $ this winter.
    The vid is decidedly political.
    not sure I’ll leave it on my site, but I tried to make it a little funny…

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  • tom
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 6:35am

    Sad as it is, Obama is making bad cops out of many who were I’m sure, good cops. Their doing is bidding, and know in many, many, situations it tarnishes the badge. Here is another interesting fact, see below:

    WASHINGTON — If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.

    The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.

    The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence. Marxism, Marxism Marxism!!!

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  • usavecomputers
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 3:22am

    CAREFUL ABOUT GOANIMATE
    BE CAREFUL WHEN JOINING THE SITE THAT IS GOANIMATE
    AFTER 30 DAYS YOU CAN BE CHARGED 6 dollars a month.
    IT is on the disclosure of the site.

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  • usavecomputers
    Posted on October 18, 2011 at 3:21am

    BE CAREFUL WHEN JOINING THE SITE THAT IS GOANIMATE

    AFTER 30 DAYS YOU CAN BE CHARGED 6 dollars a month.
    IT is on the disclosure of the site.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

    Bleached Martin Bashir asks Cain and Paul about beer….

    http://goanimate.com/movie/0GQnYFnhBAbg?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0g179AMSQrAg

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  • Atlas Yawned
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:34pm

    First Presidential Debate of Herman Cain and Barack Obama:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CiWpue4wos

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  • Mil Mom
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 9:07pm

    @TomFerrari
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:47pm
    Actually, NO, TheBlaze.com does NOT have an “AGENDA.”
    It has an OBJECTIVE, which is “THE TRUTH.”
    But, an “objective” is not the same as an “agneda.”
    An “agenda” is a prescribed sequence of events – a plan.
    TheBlaze.com follows standards, but, as it reports what HAPPENS each day, that can hardly be called a planned sequence of events, now can it?
    Whereas huffnpuff, dailcuss, and mooooveon.org are EDITORIALS with a prescribed methodology of spinning stories to try to make lies look like they are true on the other side of the coin. But in the end, they remain nothing more than twisted LIES
    ***
    Well said! But Blaze doesn’t HAVE TO HAVE AN AGENDA, the left does such a great job of putting all this trash out for us. All Blaze or GBtv or all of talk radio has to do is report on it! They make our points so well, and DISCLOSE THEMSELVES AS THE INCAPABLE OF THINKING CONSTRUCTIVELY EVERYDAY!!!

    Report Post » Mil Mom  
    • jimmyjimjam
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 2:57am

      “Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.”-Qu’ran 2:256.

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    • righttobeararms
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 8:56am

      In God We Trust!
      One Nation Under God!

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  • kourage
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:54pm

    Cite your source if you’re going to make as ridiculous a claim as this…

    Take a look at my profile (click username). You‘ll see I’ve been a registered user since August 2010, more or less active since the first day on The Blaze. I haven’t paid a cent. NOT ONE.

    I never had to register a credit card. The new Blaze Magazine is free online with a GBTV account, so that doesn’t really count. Tell me where this “legal scam” makes me pay $6 a month to read after 30 days…and how exactly they got the ninety dollars or so I should have been billed.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:58pm

    Wa-la???? Liz, get an education…. So sad that Beck’s site is filled with this type of *sic*.

    NoBama 2012

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:30pm

    Can I choose

    “Recent college graduate with $40.000 in debt who can only find work in my field as an intern?”

    or “Homeowner who just got foreclosed by a bank bailed out by the Federal government whose CEO made $13,000,000 last year?”

    or “Close to retirement with a 401k that has shrivelled like an old man in a cold swimming pool?”

    or “Single parent in a low-income community living on food stamps whose kid goes to a wretched school?”

    or “Small businessman having trouble getting credit and scared to death of tax increases and changes in health care laws?”

    If not, this is a pretty lame exercise on which I would not waste a second.

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    • Suzee
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 1:40am

      Lloyd you lumped a lot of situations into one stinky stew. Many of us who bought houses lived in them as they were and did not go after home equity loans so our house would be prettier, many of us single parents worked hard to raise our children without government assistance while we watched (during the Clinton admin. many illegals getting free lunches and ESL buses taking non English students to school while us single ‘working’ moms (American citizens) were told that our children couldn’t ride the bus because it was only for ESL and besides we worked & we weren’t on welfare). THAT was when many of us democrats became Independent voters! Small businesses you say? Hmm, we work our jobs and have a small business to get ahead, we were doing fine in 2006, we were able to hire afterschool workers, they were happy and we trained them. Now we can‘t and they can’t so who wins here?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on October 18, 2011 at 11:44am

      Suzee: my point was that this program allows you to be Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain or Mitt Romney or Barack Obama trading political witticisms, but does not, apparently, allow you to voice the concerns of ordinary people, whether right, left or center, which most really good political cartooning does.

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  • @leftfighter
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:02pm

    That should have read: “Unless I miss my guess, they’re Leftist Libertarians.”

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  • Favored93
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:51pm

    @ZengaPA65
    You are more then right …. the blaze and Glenn Beck ABSOLUTELY have an agenda…..TO DELIVER THE TRUTH!!!
    I have been following Mr.Beck for years now and have come to trust him. What you get in the “main stream” press is and has been for a while now a freaking JOKE!

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  • heyjim55
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:50pm

    ZENGAPA65
    You can use that web site also it’s not just for those who are conservative or Republican, but I think you will probably need to get off the pipe first.

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    • Patriot of My America
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:19pm

      there ya go saying things that are just as stupid as the thoughts, that you are bewildered with.. wake up
      and smell the freedom . the coffee will cost you $ 1.25 per cup..no freebees here !!

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  • mlebates
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:50pm

    The voices are annoying… I wouldn’t use it.

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  • The Divided States of America
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:49pm

    Dweeb !!!

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:46pm

    An old programmer once told me, “If you make software so easy an Idiot can use it… they will.”

    Report Post » THX-1138  
    • jb.kibs
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:55pm

      i am a programmer, and truer words have never been spoken…

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    • Joshua7
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:22pm

      The truth, sir, also live with you apparently.

      lol

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  • DeVain
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:46pm

    Oh lawdy…I just have to try this!!!!!! It could be epic!!!

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:42pm

    The Blaze doesn’t have an agenda? ROFLMFAO

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    • AIDANMAN
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:49pm

      rember that show ” that’s my bush” , well its our turn now.

      and since libs can’t find humor in yourselves.. i’m sure it will be hate speech before long

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    • drago
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:57pm

      @zengapa65 aka encinom
      Take another hit off your pipe bud….

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:01pm

      @AidenMan

      “That’s my Bush” was done by Matt Parker and Trey Stone. Unless I miss my guess, they’re no Leftist Libertarians. Not exactly your modern Dem.

      I agree, though, that The Truth has no Agenda. On this site, the Truth *is* the Agenda.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:06pm

      Snarky drive-by commenting. How original.

      Do us a favor and do your douching in private.

      Report Post » Jaycen  
    • bikerr
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:31pm

      @ZengaPA65—–When you are rolling on the floor laughing your a$$ off,Just where does your head go? being it is jammed up your A$$?

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    • britlynz
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:02pm

      Ahhhhh… a skeptic from the “nuanced” crowd.

      See if you can nuance this…

      Describe the difference between having an agenda and telling factual stories targeted for a particular readership.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:47pm

      Actually, NO, TheBlaze.com does NOT have an “AGENDA.”
      It has an OBJECTIVE, which is “THE TRUTH.”
      But, an “objective” is not the same as an “agneda.”
      An “agenda” is a prescribed sequence of events – a plan.
      TheBlaze.com follows standards, but, as it reports what HAPPENS each day, that can hardly be called a planned sequence of events, now can it?
      Whereas huffnpuff, dailcuss, and mooooveon.org are EDITORIALS with a prescribed methodology of spinning stories to try to make lies look like they are true on the other side of the coin. But in the end, they remain nothing more than twisted LIES.

      Report Post » TomFerrari  

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