Flipping out: Nintendo releases free sketchbook animation app to DSiWare
In a relatively surprise release (the European version was meant to be added to DSiWare before the Americans received it), Nintendo have officially unleashed FlipNote Studio, the same web-sharable flipbook animation system originally covered here back in December as Ugoku Memo Chou (Moving Memo Book).
The app is available for free on the DSiWare store, and, as above, the underlying web service is currently live at flipnote.hatena.com, where you can browse, rate, favorite and embed animations uploaded from the DSi itself. As mentioned before, users can embed their own recorded sounds, or use monochromatic stills captured from the DS's camera in their animations as well as painting them by hand.
Don't judge me too hard on my debut flick -- it's a work in progress, alright! And, it goes without saying, I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
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Yegwa
#1 – 5:03 AM August 13, 2009
Got this this morning (about 5 or 6 hours ago) and messed about with it a little. It is an awesome little app isn't it?
Hope more people find out about it and do more crazy things with it. some of the stuff that's out there is pretty amazing already.
Dunno why Nintendo isn't pushing it harder.
hohum
#2 – 9:47 AM August 13, 2009
I love it! So glad it got pushed to us in the middle of the week, wonderful little surprise. It really is much more capable than you'd expect for free, and I agree with Yegwa, Nintendo should really be pushing this thing!
bunnyman2112
#3 – 6:56 AM August 14, 2009
I'm loving the Flipbook, too! It's killer that you can use items from your photo album and paste them in. I did a quick animation to amuse my daughter w/ a pic of her in the background with squiggles that flew around her! Lotsa fun! Also keen is the new DSi OS update that lets you send pix directly from your DSi to Facebook. Saves the trouble of saving them to the SD card, transferring them to the computer, etc...