Bring your pictures to life

Animoto is a new service which lets you import pictures from anywhere and lets you create videos out of them. I created a sample video using Animoto. You can import pictures from your computer, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook and so on.


Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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