Colour it
Pencils, felt tips, paint, glued-on cotton wool: whatever is in the box. There is no wrong colour here, and no wrong material either. A purple dinosaur is a purple dinosaur.
Animatta books are ordinary colouring books: until you point a phone at the page. The story plays back as a real cartoon, and every character wears the colours your child chose. Even the ones they got gloriously wrong.
The page Their colours
No account to create. No tutorial to sit through. A four-year-old can do step one alone, and steps two and three take about ten seconds together.
Pencils, felt tips, paint, glued-on cotton wool: whatever is in the box. There is no wrong colour here, and no wrong material either. A purple dinosaur is a purple dinosaur.
Open Animatta, hold the phone over the page. Four little corner marks tell it what it is looking at. That is the entire setup.
The story plays as a four-minute cartoon, narrated out loud, with their colours on every single character. Then they will ask to watch it again.
Everyone else asks you to download an app before you can see what you are buying. We don't. This is the real Tito film, running right here in your browser: not a trailer, not a mock-up. Nothing to install.
Best with the sound on. The narration is read aloud.
Print it at home, or colour it at our stand, then photograph it and watch your own colours come to life.
We thought the magic was in the colouring. It isn't. And we thought it was in the cartoon. It isn't that either.
It is the ten minutes afterwards, when the whole family crowds around one small screen to watch it. And then watches it again.
A child who has coloured something has made a thing. A child who watches that thing move, in front of their grandmother, has made a thing that matters. That is the whole product, and it is the reason we keep the film short and the colouring long.
Pick a storyEvery book is 12 pages to colour and one four-minute film. Printed in the EU on thick, felt-tip-proof paper. The films play free in your web browser: nothing to install.
3+ A clumsy little dragon with tornado sneezes loses a mystery egg to a thieving bird: and chases it across a swamp, a river and a thunderstorm to get it back.
A castle, a dress that changes colour on every page, and a princess who would rather fix the problem herself, thank you.
Christmas Eve, one sleigh, and something important left behind at the workshop. The seasonal one: and the one everybody buys in December.
The one every child can have. Colour the cake, the balloons and the guests: then hear the whole party shout your child's own name at the end of the film.
48 pages to colour, four films, and one very quiet Sunday afternoon. Save €11.70.
Four minutes, then it stops. No feed, no autoplay, no "just one more". It finishes with pride instead of a tantrum.
You buy a book. The films play free in your browser, forever: no subscription, no hidden purchases and no advertising of any kind.
English, Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian and French. Switch language and the same film is narrated again: quietly useful in a bilingual family.
Once a page is scanned, everything runs on the device. No signal needed, and nothing about your child is sent anywhere.
"She coloured the dragon bright pink on purpose, just to see if we would really put a pink dragon in the film. We did. She has not stopped talking about it."
"I live four hundred kilometres away. He calls me to show me his film. That is the bit nobody tells you about."
"Twenty-four children, twenty-four different dinosaurs, twenty-four films. Nobody argued about who did it best, because they were all right."
One email when the books are ready. Nothing else, ever, and one click to stop.