{"id":16792,"date":"2011-01-27T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:24:24","slug":"awesome-app-o-the-day-toontastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/awesome-app-o-the-day-toontastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome app o&#039; the day: Toontastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2011\/01\/why-would-you-want-to-create-on-a-tablet.html\">said<\/a> that creation on tablets would be more about fun, about speed, and about the unbridled pleasure of creation than what we know today.  <a href=\"http:\/\/launchpadtoys.com\/toontastic\/\">Toontastic<\/a> is the sort of thing I have in mind:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15381744?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\nI&#8217;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&#8217;t &#8217;til college that I found Director &#038; Flash, but of course those are complex pro tools.  I love seeing the creation experience taken to the next level.<br \/>\nThanks to reader Hendrik for pointing out the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}