computer application software for smart phones, and handheld computers, namely, software for automatically stitching together a timed sequence of separate photos captured from multiple connected devices, including a host or control device along with a series of companion devices, resulting in a single animated video file; computer application software for smart phones, and handheld computers, namely, software enabling photos captured from multiple devices, at multiple surrounding locations, and at multiple viewing angles, of a single object or subject, to be combined, forming an animated sequence of photos; computer application software for smart phones, and handheld computers, namely, software for controlling the camera shutter function or image capture command from multiple companion devices from a single host device; computer application software for smart phones, and handheld computers, namely, software for broadcasting resulting animated video files from a central server to a designated host device and/or multiple companion devices; computer application software for smart phones, and handheld computers, namely, software for sharing resulting animated video files from a designated host device and/or multiple companion devices to online social media networks and platforms