After many years of long-distance wishing (five long years), I was able to add a Cintiq to my digital studio. The Cintiq line of computer drawing tablets have a built-in display so, when you draw, it happens directly underneath the pen. Press lightly and get a thin line. Push down more firmly and get a thicker line. It’s a type of magic not found in Apple’s iPad.
Ah, yes. I remember this. Having participated (and failed) Nanowrimo 2011, I found a few more tricks that allowed me to hit (nay! surpass!) the 50,000 word mark for 2012′s contest. Trick #1: ask your carpool buddy to drive each day and use that hour to bang out 1,000 words.
SpriteDance (Developer’s site | iTunes) is an animation-composition app for the iPad with these features:
Import your own background (called a stage)
Import your own characters (called dancers)
Drop characters onto the stage
Move the timeline’s playhead, create a keyframe, reposition the dancer; repeat.
From there you can export the animation as a Movie in your Photo Album, send to Youtube or save as Quicktime (and save it to your desktop via iTunes File Sharing as a 1024×768 MP4)
Great stuff. But how do you get your own drawings in there?
“In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”
A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
Made by the office of Charles and Ray Eames for IBM (1971)
