Inchworm, the advanced DS drawing application we first saw in 2007 as Fatbits Pocket Painter, is finally headed toward an official release. For those unfamiliar with the app, it’s designed by Bob Sabiston, who created the Rotoshop software used for films like Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
Inchworm Animation, now a planned DSiWare release, is craaaaazy feature-rich (features quoted from the website):
- create multi-layer flipbook animations
- variable-thickness antialiased brushes
- use DSi 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
With the homebrew Colors! available for free, developer Flat Black Films had to do something to differentiate, and there’s plenty to make a case in that feature list. Notably, this supports the DSi Camera, with mechanisms for stop-motion and time-lapse photography! So cool! Check out a gallery of animations here.
Buy: Nintendo DSi XL (Burgundy and Bronze), Standard Nintendo DSi (White, Pink, Black and Blue)
See also: Flipnote Studio posts
[Via Nintendo Life]
