Inchworm Animation

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  • Summary: Inchworm Animation is a full-featured paint and animation system for the Nintendo DSi system. Five years in the making, Inchworm Animation lets you create mind-blowing digital paintings and animations in the palm of your hand. Use the Nintendo DSi Camera application to record video,Inchworm Animation is a full-featured paint and animation system for the Nintendo DSi system. Five years in the making, Inchworm Animation lets you create mind-blowing digital paintings and animations in the palm of your hand. Use the Nintendo DSi Camera application to record video, stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography. Paint with transparency and smooth anti-aliased brushes. Create images up to 9,999-by-9,999 pixels. An easy-to-use pattern editor lets you make cool repeating patterns. Other tools include onion skin, six-level zoom, cut/paste/rotate, undo and shape primitives. Inchworm Animation's sophisticated layer system allows you to create structured animated scenes. Each layer can have its own independent frame loop. You can even draw on your animation as it plays. Comprehensive tutorials will show you the ropes. Export your finished masterpieces to an SD card (sold separately) as Flash or BMP image sequences.… Expand

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. Nintendo Life
    Apr 27, 2011
    90
    The wealth of powerful animation tools and functions make it even more potent than Flipnote Studio, but with that added functionality comes a slightly higher learning curve if you want to get the most out of the package.
  2. Official Nintendo Magazine UK
    Jun 20, 2012
    86
    You couldn't call this a game, but it's brilliant for budding artists. [July 2012, p.97]
  3. Nintendo Gamer
    Jun 20, 2012
    80
    Works really well within the sometimes frustrating limitations of the DSi, providing reasonably user-friendly access to a set of fun, creative, flexible animation tools. [July 2012, p.106]
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  4. Games Master UK
    Jun 25, 2012
    80
    A great place for budding Disneys to begin. [Aug 2012, p.80]
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  1. MrFunsockz
    Jul 11, 2011
    10
    All I can say is WOW. Forget the built in notepad of the 3DS, forget the simplistic Flipnote Studio of the DSI, Inchworm Animation is the mostAll I can say is WOW. Forget the built in notepad of the 3DS, forget the simplistic Flipnote Studio of the DSI, Inchworm Animation is the most feature complete art and animation program on the DSI/3DS. If you ever wanted an art program on your DS, this is it. Inchworm not only has a rather robust tool library for drawing, including things like custom colors, layers, custom repeatable patterns, and brush opacity, but it also has an amazingly robust animation system, boasting just about anything you would want or need to do some animations on the go. If you want to do art on your DS, pick this up.… Expand
  2. lucicat
    Feb 28, 2016
    0
    Literal Garbage. This application only lets you use one fps speed, a very slow one at that, and is confusing and hard to get around. I haveLiteral Garbage. This application only lets you use one fps speed, a very slow one at that, and is confusing and hard to get around. I have experience making animations on actual animation software, and I'd rather go through the pain of that- or even Flipnote where you have to listen to the same audio much too many times to get things in place. Yes, Inchworm does have many, many, many more colors, but everything is crowded onto your screen. Even the simple bouncing ball tutorial you have to sit through is garbage- you can't even make a simple red circle moving up and down look decent.
    Sadly, nintendo Eshop won't let me write a review on this (as they probably know they wont sucker people out of money). I can't even request a refund, like you can on most other games.
    Overall, this wasn't even worth the $5 i paid for it- I feel like I am owed money for even trying to use the software.    … Expand