“Inchworm”: a long-awaited Nintendo DSi paint and animation app
20:02 in Nintendo DS by Pierre Fontaine
Set for release on April 25, 2011, Inchworm is a long-awaited paint and animation app designed for the Nintendo DSi range of hand-held gaming systems. The price will be 500 DSi points (or $5.00).
Inchworm offers the following features:
- create multi-layer flipbook animations
- variable-thickness antialiased brushes
- use the camera for stop-motion & time lapse
- rotoscope by tracing on top of camera footage
- different layers can have different frame lengths
- circles, rectangles and polygons (w/ border)
- translucent color and pattern fill
- custom palette storage
- pattern editor
- individual animation frame timing
- onionskin
- 6 levels of zoom
- export to SD card (SWF, BMP sequence)
- work on images up to 9999 x 9999 pixels
- cut/paste to clipboard
- rescale clipboard images
- flip and 90-degree rotate
- undo
The best way to see what this app can do is to take a look at the Youtube demo video:
This software has been in development for three years, the last year or so being spent trying to get through Nintendo’s DSiWare submission process (and I thought Apple was strict!). If you or one of your children own a Nintendo DSi, DSiXL or 3DS, you’d do well to check out this amazing paint and animation program.
wow, fantastic video (and analysis)…
there is likely to be a minor brawl in my home this weekend, as I will attempt to pry the nintendo DSi out of my nephew’s hands to give this a try.
Looking forward to seeing the works that flow from this program.
Excellent Post. I might just have to go out and buy a DSi now!
Hi Mia,
It won’t be out until April 25th…sadly a whole week and a half away. But like you, I’m going to have to wrestle the DSi from my daughter for a bit to try this amazing looking program out!
I was working working with Art Academy a while ago. That was really good. This looks fantastic!
I am thinking about buying a DSi…Can anyone talk about other available programs for it?
Let’s see how good this one is.. I was REALLY disappointed by Art Academy (and also by the fact that Nintendo DOES care about its users instead of the looking-to-the-other-side Apple)
Nice review btw…a nice start