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Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

unimator for iOS is a nice way to make and export text art


unimator looks like it could be a great deal of fun for making text art, so I thought it was really worth showing. Here's what the app has to say about itself:

Create quick and fun text and sign animations! Use the whole character set of the device including Smileys, Emojis, and other symbols and scripts.
Enter the texts with a special keyboard that shows all possible characters. Make animated ascii-art and astonishing text animations in a very short time.

Features

  • Export to video & animated gif
  • Share animations on twitter and facebook easily
  • New unicode keyboard to enter all possible characters
  • Similarity function assists in the search for similar characters
  • Sounds to accompany the animations
  • Text to speech
  • Use any music on your device as a background soundtrack for your animation
  • Display animations on an external screen
  • Send the sound via Audiobus to other music or sound effect apps (requires purchase of Audiobus app)

And it only costs $0.99, so it really isn't going to break the bank is it?

Want to know what you can do with Sunvox and PixiLang? Take a look at these

Ok, it is fair to say that this stuff was made by Alex who is the developer behind both of these amazing apps, so he probably has a head start on the rest of us, but even so, it is pretty impressive stuff isn't it.



 

Sadly at this time PixiLang isn't available on iOS, but maybe one day right Alex?

 SunVox - Alexander Zolotov

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ArtRage comes to the iPhone at last

I know that people will be very happy to see this app arrive and especially at the intro price.

Suggested for iPhone 4 or later. Special Introductory price of 99c - Regular price $1.99!

Express your artistic side with easy to use painting and drawing tools that work just like the real thing!

ArtRage packs a powerful physical paint simulation into a creative experience that lets users of all skill levels explore natural painting on the iPhone.

ArtRage doesn't just place color on a canvas, it keeps track of how much paint there is and how wet it is, so you can blend colors under the brush, or lay down thick lines of pigment for flattening and smearing with the Palette Knife. Canvas grain affects the look of your strokes, and drier pigments break up on the surface to create textured effects. It's not just a special effect, it's a live simulation of the properties of real paint.

Add Layers to your painting to work on individual elements without damaging others. Import photos to smear around like oil paint, or as Tracing Images that are overlaid on the canvas, and have ArtRage select colors from them automatically as you paint.

The interface has been designed specifically for the iPhone, compacted to maximize your creative space without hiding away critical functions such as tool and color selection. As you paint, controls get out of the way so that you don’t have to stop and manually adjust panels. With support for Multi-Touch gestures, important shortcuts are available without needing any interface.

Features Include:

Tools:
  • High quality strokes respect the volume of paint on the canvas, letting you play with texture as well as color.
  • Oil Brush with thickness and smearing.
  • Palette Knife for spreading and blending pigment.
  • Paint Tube for laying down thick blobs of oil.
  • Inking Pen with auto-smoothing for crisp illustration.
  • Pencil for sketching or shading.
  • Crayon for waxy shaded lines.
  • Eraser and Flood Fill.
  • Each tool comes with a set of variant types for different effects.
  • Tap and drag tool selection allows you to pick a tool in one quick gesture.
Colors:
  • HLS Color picker for intuitive color selection.
  • Color swatches for storing favorites.
  • Tap and drag color selection allows you to pick colors in one quick gesture.
Layers:
  • Add Layers to your canvas with easy adjustment of opacity and visibility.
Utilities:
  • Unlimited Undo / Redo.
  • Tracing Images.
Files:
  • Create files of 320 x 480, or 640 x 960 (Retina display only).
  • Uses shared file space so you can transfer files to and from your desktop computer.
  • Export PNG or JPG by email, or export to your Photos App.
  • Import photos to a new file or a layer.
  • Use the camera as a source for New Files, References, Layers, or Tracing Images.
Interface:
  • Easy access pods in the corners provide important functionality without getting in the way.
  • Elements vanish as you paint so you can paint underneath without having to stop.
  • Multi-Touch provides instant shortcuts for canvas manipulation and Brush Size.
  • Quick Reference and Help cover the basics of the application.
ArtRage for iPhone - Ambient Design Ltd.

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Adobe Touch Apps - Introduction video



The Android versions of Adobe's new apps have been released, so if anyone has an Android tablet and would care to let me know what they think I'd be very interested to hear about these.

Whilst these appear to be for Android at the moment you can see iDevices in the video so I doubt it will take long for them to make it to iOS.

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Mobile Art Con starts on Friday

Starting this Friday Mobile Art Con returns, and I wish I could be there as it looks like it'll be an excellent event, and our friend Pierre is going to be there talking about mobile music making too.

I really hope there's some video from the event.

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Multi-touch art


In interesting story via TUAW of an artist using the iPad and making art from the everyday interaction with the device.

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Pierre on painting with Android apps

Pierre posts on using a couple of paint apps on an Android tablet, and the paintings look pretty good. More at Pierre's blog.

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123D Sculpt from Autodesk



A pretty impressive new app from Autodesk, 123D Sculpt is currently free.

123D Sculpt - Autodesk Inc.

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Sketchbook Pro coming to Android


According to Gadgetlab Sketchbook Pro is coming to Android tablets very soon, which is great news for Android users.

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MobileArtCon 2011 Registration opens

The event isn't until September / October, but apparently space is limited so registration is now available.

More details here.

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Vinclaro bring a new non-music app to the iPad

Non-music indeed, but still very creative though. Sketchasy brings pressure sensitivity to iPad drawing, which sounds amazing (no pun intended).

Find out more about the app by using the app store button, and find out more about the technical aspects of the app at the Vinclaro blog.

Sketchtasy - Vinclaro

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Things that I miss: 2 - Ninerpaint

Whilst there are loads of great paint and art apps for iOS and especially the iPad I still miss this old Palm OS app. I always found Ninerpaint really easy to use and it had great features for the time it was made. Again I used this on my old Treo 650 and I think that the Palm Sounds logo was made with it!


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Inkpad review at Fingerpainted

If you were thinking of getting InkPad for the iPad but were sitting on the fence you might find this review over at fingerpainted useful.

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Inkpad now available


Inkpad the vector graphics app from the maker of Brushes is now on the app store. Here's the app's description:

From the creators of Brushes! Inkpad is a professional vector illustration app designed from scratch for the iPad. It supports paths, compound paths, text, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers. Inkpad was designed with performance in mind – it can easily handle drawings with hundreds to thousands of shapes without bogging down.

To celebrate the launch, Inkpad will be available for $1.99 for a limited time. Get it now before the price goes up!

Features:
  • Very high performance. Select, scale and rotate hundreds of objects with zero lag.
  • Create arbitrary bezier paths with the Pen tool.
  • Create compound paths, masks and groups.
  • Create text objects.
  • Place photos from your albums.
  • Powerful scale and rotate tools.
  • Gradient fills with interactive editing on canvas.
  • Swatch library.
  • Unlimited layers per drawing.
  • Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers.
  • Snap to grid, points, and path edges.
  • Isolate the active layer for easy editing.
  • Email drawings as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG.
  • Send SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG directly to your Dropbox.
The app is priced at $1.99

Inkpad - Steve Sprang

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