The other day I said that creation on tablets would be more about fun, about speed, and about the unbridled pleasure of creation than what we know today. Toontastic is the sort of thing I have in mind:
I just spent half an hour creating cartoons with our 2- and 1-year-old sons, quitting only when I had to go to work. We had a pirate-loaded ball.
I’m reminded of my own childhood, when I tried animation with flipbooks and even an Etch-a-Sketch Animator. Apple IIgs apps were similarly promising but frustrating. It wasn’t ’til college that I found Director & Flash, but of course those are complex pro tools. I love seeing the creation experience taken to the next level.
Thanks to reader Hendrik for pointing out the app.
Makes me wistful for the promising LiveMotion app with its much more intuitive and fluid interface for creating motion vector graphics. I find the opacity of the Flash interface flat-out depressing.
[You don’t, by any chance, know what I came to Adobe to develop, and what I spent my first two years working on, do you? 🙂 –J.]
Jeese Louise! And I just went through treatment for addiction to Flight Control.
Ah, LiveMotion. Missed that app.