By Colleen, on June 5th, 2009%
I’ve been known to feature a toonlet® web comic in my blog from time to time. “What is a toonlet®?” you ask. toonlet.com® is the brainchild of Craig Schwartz and Seth Ladygo. It is essentially a Mr. Potato head inspired web toon toolkit that also adds 21st century features like resizing, rotation and repositioning. It’s really pretty easy to figure out, but here’s a basic toonlet® tutorial if you feel you need one. Oh by the way, it’s free to join and create cartoons, here is a link to my personal toonlet® collection.
Continue reading Thinking outside the frame with toonlet®
By Colleen, on December 1st, 2008%
I found this dancer somewhere. Look at her. Do you think she is going clockwise or anti-clockwise? Can you make it go either way? Can you do it at will? Or do you think the animation actually reverses (maybe even randomly with a bunch of tricky backend wizardry?) What it is supposed to mean: If your impression is that she is going clockwise, you are allegedly RIGHT BRAIN dominant. RIGHT BRAIN dominant folks are supposed to be emotional, creative, wholistic, and other stuff you probably know if you came here. If you see her going anti-clockwise, allegedly you are LEFT BRAIN dominant. LEFT BRAIN folks are supposed to be logical, linear, problem-solvers etc.
Continue reading Right Brain or Left Brain or do you care?