How to make animated Instagram videos and animated Instagram stories. Collection of 5 apps to create animated Instagram story. Hyperlapse from Instagram and other apps fro Android and iOS which can be used to create impactful animated stories and videos:
Hyperlapse by Instagram
https://hyperlapse.instagram.com/
Create amazing time lapse videos with Hyperlapse. Using Instagram’s in-house stabilization, Hyperlapse shoots polished time lapse videos that were previously impossible without bulky tripods and expensive equipment. When you shoot a time lapse video with Hyperlapse, your footage will be instantly stabilized to smooth out the bumps from the road and give it a cinematic feeling.
Capture an entire sunrise in 10 seconds—even from the back of a moving motorcycle. Walk through the crowds at an all-day music festival, then distill it into a 30 second spot. Capture your bumpy trail run and share your 5k in 5 seconds.
Features:
1. Shoot handheld time lapse videos in motion— while you’re walking, running, jumping or falling.
2. Smooth out your video for cinematic quality with automatic stabilization.
3. Speed up your hyperlapse to be up to 12 times the speed.
4. Share your videos seamlessly on Instagram and Facebook or save them to your camera roll to share anywhere, anytime.
5. Start filming immediately with a simple design that gets out of the way of your creativity
6. Download and start capturing. No sign up or account required.
Adobe Spark
This app can help you transform your ideas into stunning visual stories. One can create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes with Adobe Spark. Spark lets you select the images you want. Upload your own from your device or cloud storage, or select from thousands of free online images.
It comes with many exciting features, such as beautiful typography {choose from a variety of free professionally designed fonts and for every occasion}, iconic imagery {select from thousands of photos on the web or pick from your personal collections on Adobe Creative Cloud, Lightroom CC, Dropbox or Google Photos}, professional themes {explore our wide variety of best-in-class layouts, colors, and fonts. Easily tweak them with the text, photos, and icons that best fit your needs}.
Users can share everywhere – share the story via social media or email, which is automatically synced across the web or the iOS apps.
Life Lapse
Users can create stop motion videos shot on a phone using Life Lapse. Stop motion videos are a great way to add life & motion into your stories, feeds, partnerships and campaigns. Life Lapse makes it easy for you to create content on the fly, all from your phone, that stands out from the crowd. Say goodbye to the days of importing photos to your computer, exporting the JPEGS, importing into an expensive video editing software program, manually editing the video, exporting the video and then either airdropping the file to your phone or emailing the file to yourself to post on social media.
With the best stop motion app, Life Lapse, you can do everything straight from your phone including add music from our royalty-free music library, customize the size *vertical friendly options*, add filters and change the speed of how fast the photos go + more.
Over
Over is all about curated content, easy to use tools and the ability to collaborate. Users get access to hand-curated videos, graphics and font collections, which are updated daily. The app comes with tons of easy to use tools which can be used to make designs pop with blending, layers and masking, and look like a pro – no experience needed.
For editing features, it comes with 3 powerful tools – Blend, Layer and Mask. One can seamlessly blend two image layers together to reveal stunning effects, such as bokeh or textures. Using the Layer features, you can add layers to your design and edit like a pro – add/change effects without affecting the rest of your image. and Last, Mask is used to hide areas of a layer, revealing the image layer underneath. Great for hiding pesky background items, or making text stand out.
Pixaloop
https://www.lightricks.com/products#product_pixaloop
Magically bring your photos to life in only a few taps with Enlight Pixaloop! The creative possibilities are endless – from the dancing flicker of a candle flame to a cascading waterfall. Animate any part of your photo with arrows and anchors. Choose the speed of movement, add trendy overlays or even completely change a scene with the AI-powered Sky tool. Mesmerize your followers by creating moving masterpieces with the Enlight Pixaloop photo editor. Using the Enlight Pixaloop app, one can choose to animate one element or several, directing towards the viewer’s eyes to any component of the photo that one wants to come alive.
It also comes with real-time animation speed control with the choice of loop styles. Its simple, intuitive UI makes it easy to move widgets and use tools to control movement in your photos. It is enabled with trendy camera effects include Tilt, Zoom, and ‘Dolly’ effects for perspective distortion and new Geometrics tool to realistically animate objects like stairs, floors and hallways to create architectural animations with precision on mobile.
Although there are many more apps to make animated stories and videos for Instagram, I find these {above listed ones} to be very powerful.