For anyone here who is an iPad user and interested in the craft of making hand-drawn cartoons, here are a few recommendations I can make. The first and best I can recommend is the Norman McLaren Workshop iPad app. Besides that its basically free*, it gives you 51 of McLarens National Film Board of Canada shorts and documentary films with it, and you can download all of them off the app to your ipad free, so you can watch them offline if you desire, and a biography and essay on McLaren is included. And besides that, there are three interactive workshops included that allow you to make your own films using similar techniques to McLaren, one using cutout animation ala Le Merle, the draw on film technique ala Blinkety Blank, and one which allows you to draw your own sounds ala Synchronomy. * However, the Draw on Film and Draw Sound workshops need you to pay chump change (0.99$ each) to unlock the full features, but you can try out making five seconds of animation in both for free. Another great app I can recommend is the Bambi Second Screen app which lets you look at a ton of goodies and behind the scenes art from the film, and even a few scenes of pencil animation that you can study of our own accord, and even compare them to how they look in the final film--unfortunately, you obviously cant save the pictures to your ipad. Fortunately, Disney has been offering the full Bambi app for free for a while now, without needing the stupid blu-ray magic code to access all the features, but Im uncertain how much longer it will last. The same cant be said for the Lady and the Tramp second screen app, which likewise has a load of great art and pencil animation from the film, but it needs the blu ray magic code or it only gives you a small chunk of the art you want to look at. Other recommendations include the Disney Animated app (13$), which covers all the Disney features from Snow White to Frozen, and has a lot of animation and art from all of them, and The Animators Survival Kit app, which is not only a portable version of the famous book, but also gives you many tutorial videos showing the books animation in action along with newly recorded video lectures from Richard Williams himself--the app is 30$, but its a great alternative to say, buying the Animators Survival Kit DVD set, which will cost you 1000$. Other recommended artist and animator iPad apps: Scanner Pro, Watch TCM (for film reference), Metronome and Stopwatch apps (for timing films and studying real life actions respectively), Voice Record HD for sounds, Draw Free for a practical drawing app and Garageband for music--all of them are free. Hope this helps!
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:04:07 +0000
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