Miximal Is A Children’s App That Animation Fans Can Enjoy, Too

Animator Lucas Zanotto has released a follow-up to his Drawnimal appcalled Miximal. It’s a mix-and-match style children’s game in which different combinations of animals can be created. Little bits of animation accompany each section of the animal, and when all three pieces align into a complete animal, the creature peforms a short act.

Betty Boop and Bimbo Go CGI for iOS Game

It’s been a busy stretch for the Thirties Fleischer cartoon star Betty Boop. First, she got her own paper towel in Turkey, and now, Winnipeg, Canada-based Fowl Moon Studios has licensed the character for a new iOS game called Betty Boop Dance Card.

Headless Produces Intro Cinematic for Hatch App

The new virtual pet app Hatch is being described as a Tamagotchi for iPhones. While that may not excite too many readers of this site—if readers are even old enough to remember what Tamagotchis are—the app’s intro cinematic merits a look.

Drawnimal App by Lucas Zanotto

Director and animator Lucas Zanotto proves with his creative new app Drawnimal that drawing with a pencil on paper and digital apps are …

Porn or Abstract Animation? (NSFW?)

All Luciano Foglia wanted to do was create an animation app exploring the “visual geometry containing the non-explicit description of …

New Markets in Animation

Still from “Why Can’t We Walk Straight In terms of opportunities and amount of work available, there is no better time to be working …

IPhone Game Angry Bird goes to Hollywood

For what certainly won’t be the last time, a successful iPhone game is attempting to make the leap into animated features and series. …

Kometen Trailer

A creative trailer for Kometen, an equally creative iPhone/iPad game created by Swedish artists Niklas Ã…kerblad, who did the …

Apple Defends Its Decision to Ban Flash

Steve Jobs is taking so much heat for his decision to ban Flash from iPads and iPhones, that he’s published a lengthy missive defending …

When Lynch Met Lucas by Sascha Ciezata

This is an animated short using audio of David Lynch recounting the time he met George Lucas about possibly directing Return of The Jedi. …

Interview: Chris Dainty and Super Star Tap

As the iPhone user base continues to expand, smaller animation studios and indie animators are discovering a promising new distribution …

NFB’s iPhone App

Wow, how quickly times change. A few years ago, while I was researching my book Cartoon Modern, I traveled all the way to Montreal to see …

MouthOff

Lots of interesting new animation-related iPhone apps are being released, and I’m going try and write about as many as I can on the Brew. …