New Animation Workshops in New Zealand

If you are a teacher in the New Zealand area do not miss the opportunity to join one of the iPad Animation workshops by Craig Lauridsen. Craig has been teaching stop motion for 10 years. He has overseen hundreds of stop motion animations made by children age 8 to 16 years.

The iPad Animation workshop focus on:

  • Digital technologies - breaking big tasks into smaller tasks and applying appropriate digital tools
  • Storytelling - helping children to tell their stories using stop motion animation
  • Technology - turning the iPad into a creative studio
  • 100% hands on creativity - not web surfing.



The dates for May and June are now available for booking on the website - don't miss the Early Bird Pricing.

Skelfie

"Hold on, lemme take a skelfie." A skeleton waiting to scare people in the park decides to upload a new skelfie to favorite social media.

Lori Escobar’s animated short is part of a bigger project in planning featuring this skeleton on this setting of a park at night. Lori built the characters in rubber clay and constructed an elaborate set. iStopmotion is used to film the scenes with an iPhone 5 as the camera, a setup which Lori finds “really easy”. Adobe Premiere is used for post production and the effects are created in After Effects. Lori also wrote the music in Garage Band.

Please support Lori’s project on Patreon.

Be Creative This Summer With 12★apps

Each year, the Apple Design Awards are testimony to this fact: Europe has some of the best and most creative Mac and iOS developers.

Our friends at Creaceed pay tribute to this with their semi-annual 12★apps promotion, rallying top European developers around a common theme. This time it's "Creative Summer". All these apps are now available at a significant discount:

  • Pictello (AssistiveWare): Create, read and share visual, talking stories in a breeze
  • Wrise (AssistiveWare): Reading and writing accessible and fun for everyone
  • GIF’ted (Bitfield AB): Turn your movies into animated GIF’s
  • iSubtitle (Bitfield AB): Soft subtitled movies for your Apple gear
  • QuickScale (CodingMammoth): Resize many pictures in seconds
  • Hydra iOS (Creaceed): Amazing Photography
  • Hydra Mac (Creaceed): Pro HDR Editing
  • Carbo (Creaceed): Handwriting in the Digital Age
  • VideoGrade (Flainez Apps): Color Editor for HD Video and Photos
  • TiltShift (Flainez Apps): Miniature Effect for Movies and Photos
  • SKRWT (Mjagielski): Lens & Perspective Correction App
  • Colors (Tayasui)
  • Sketches (Tayasui)

Boinx is participating with FotoMagico 5 Pro (which will be just US$74.99* until July 16th, 2017) and iStopMotion for iPad (which will be just US$4.99 on the App Store until July 16th, 2017)

Check out the 12★apps...