You can collaborate with friends by transferring your file directly to their DSi, or - after registering for an account – upload directly to the internet via the Flipnote Hatena social network website. What makes Flipnote Studio even more fantastic is its ability to share the animations. For my animation I had Greg Miller be my foley artist to come up with the sounds you hear in my Deadly Drop animation. Adding audio is extraordinarily easy as well: you can simply record a foley session as the animation's playing out. At any time you can hit down on the D-pad to play what you've already laid out, and tapping up will pull the toolkit down so you can change your brush, color (you can paint in black, blue, red, or white), and undo any mistakes you've made along the way. This light box feature shows off the four previous frames so you can get a good scope of what your animation's going to do. What you drew on the previous frame will be displayed in a transparent "onion skin" so you can easily match up your next frame of animation. The interface uses a brilliantly simple touchscreen/D-pad combination: draw on the screen, then tap right on the D-pad to move to Frame 2. Its simplicity is the reason why Flipnote Studio is so amazing, because it takes very little effort to pull off animations you can be proud of. But for the most part you'll be able to pull off some seriously amazing stuff if you work within the program's limitations. ![]() Even with the enhanced abilities, you still can't select an entire snippet of animation frames and copy them into a different part of your animation. In the basic mode, you can't crop out tiny objects and slide them around the frame, but if you enable the "advanced options" you get full select, copy and paste. Sure, there will be a few times when you'll say to yourself, "I wish I could…." That's what the "advanced options" are for. The program has been made to be as simple to use as possible, so you won't be overwhelmed with options beyond simple animation abilities. For someone like me, it means a cartoon like this: That 15 second animation took about an hour of work from start to finish, and incorporates nearly every aspect of Flipnote Studio's features. This is an extremely simple, yet fully featured animation program that enables anyone with any sense of stylus skills to produce animations of significant quality quickly. Flipnote Studio is the index card stack for today's generation. Usually these stories ended up with Nameless Stick Man blowing up or breaking his spine. My artistic talent barely crosses the "stick figure" skills, but I had fun putting together some barely cohesive narratives. Like many of you, when I was younger I spent my downtime stapling together index cards and stealing stacks of Post-it Notes so I could produce stupid flipbook animations. ![]() The fact that it's a free download makes it all that much sweeter. Flipnote Studio, just released in the US, is the first piece of software for the Nintendo DSi that makes me comfortable in saying that you now should upgrade to the new system. You can use Paperclip, a utility created by Frog to export animations as. ![]() The license is just for people who want to donate to the project and get a little something out of it, none of the main features will be locked from you for not having the license. If you just want to donate to me directly, I have a Ko-fi page if that's more your thing. If you'd like to help me develop Clipnote studio, you can buy a $5 Clipnote license which gives you access to custom themes and a fancy little supporter badge on the main menu. I cannot ensure that your tablet will work with the software. ![]() For now you can use Wine to get it to run. Clipnote allows you to create basic animations that you can share with your friends. Clipnote studio is basic animation software and a spiritual successor to the now defunct Flipnote studio by Nintendo.
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