

Tapping their respective icons adds one of the elements to your linear timeline, and you can further edit it from there.

Plotagon movies consist of a few core elements: actors, scenes, dialogue, actions, music, sound effects, and title cards. I can’t fault Plotagon's accessible interface, despite the app’s deeper, quirkier problems (which I’ll discuss later). Fortunately, the tool is intuitive enough that you can teach yourself the basics without much effort. Plotagon’s YouTube page offers plenty of tutorials on how to get started with a project, but none of that is in the app itself. Using Plotagon as a fun, expressive classroom activity sounds like one of its best possible applications.

After that introductory period ends, Individual subscriptions start at $7 per month, with prices going up for businesses and down for educators. Desktop users get a month-long free trial. Plotagon is available as a Windows 10 desktop app, as well as a mobile app for Android and iOS. Still, any creative tool that makes a seemingly complicated task easy is at least worth a look, especially if you're an imaginative kid with filmmaking dreams or a hip executive looking for an unusual presentation tool. However, the end results are so awkward, stilted, and just plain bizarre that I have a hard time imagining many good uses for this that aren’t steeped in irony. This video editor-esque program lets you create custom animated CGI movies with a simple, but flexible, editor on desktop and mobile. The only thing weirder than Plotagon itself is the question of whether it’s good or bad.
