Animation Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW Tip: Get your animated slideshows to MobileMe

by Mel Martin (Jan 8th, 2010)

For all the things Apple does right, there are some strange decisions in the integration of iPhoto and MobileMe. iPhoto has a wonderful way to create animated slideshows with music and professional looking transitions and you can look at them all day on your Mac, or send them to your iPhone or ...

Two Growl styles worth a serious look

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 18th, 2009)

Designer/Developer Christopher Lobay has been hard at work making some excellent Styles for the system notification app, Growl. Growl displays temporary, floating notification windows above your desktop to let you know about things like new messages, completed downloads, changes in Skype ...

Dragon's Lair ships for iPhone and iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2009)

Guys, if there was any doubt that the iPhone is a serious application platform, just go ahead and put it to rest right now -- Dragon's Lair has officially been ported over. The Don Bluth-animated laserdisc game was immensely popular upon release in 1983, and since then has been ported to almost ...

Cartoon Creator: a great introduction to animation in an app

by David Winograd (Sep 4th, 2009)

Remember flip books? Get a stack of paper and draw something on the first page. On the next page, draw just about the same thing moved slightly, repeat until you run out of paper. Staple the pile together, flip through the pages and if you did it right, your drawings move like an animated cartoon. ...

3D animations coming to Safari

by Joshua Brickner (Jul 17th, 2009)

Charles Ying over at satine.org has put together an impressive demo using Safari's forthcoming CSS 3D transform features. There is a YouTube video of the demo (you can watch it in the 2nd half of this post), as a nightly build of WebKit or the Snow Leopard version of Safari is required to render ...

CSS Animation to replace need for Flash in MobileSafari? Not likely

by Robert Palmer (Feb 6th, 2009)

New nightly builds of Safari's bleeding-edge doppelgänger, WebKit, are getting some new support for CSS animations -- support that's already available in MobileSafari. The animations, which include a falling leaves effect, a way to simply animate objects sliding across the screen, and a ...

AniWeather makes weather pretty even when it isn't

by Mel Martin (Jan 6th, 2009)

Just when you thought you'd seen all the weather apps you needed to see for the iPhone or iPod touch comes another release today with one very nice feature -- animation. Looking quite a bit like the weather screen on the HTC Diamond Touch, AniWeather [App Store link] animates the clouds, snow, sun ...

TUAW Hands on with FlipBook for iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Aug 5th, 2008)

Josh Anon's $9.99 FlipBook [App Store link] offers a well-designed animation building tool. Like other flip book drawing products, it lets you create movement frame by frame. What makes FlipBook stand out from the crowd of iPhone drawing tools is its fine attention to interface details and the ...

Venture Bros. season 3 now in iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Jun 5th, 2008)

Just a few short days after the new season started on Adult Swim, the latest episode of The Venture Bros. is now in iTunes for your downloading pleasure. I love this show, and this season will probably be the best yet -- show creators Jackson Publick (a.k.a. Christopher McCullogh) and Doc Hammer (no ...

Terminal Tip: Four ways to turn off Finder animations and speed up your system

by Erica Sadun (May 21st, 2007)

Mac OS X Hints has posted several ways to disable Finder animations like the snap-to-grid animation and the Info window opening animation. They are: 1. Disable standard Finder animations. defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true 2. Disable 'snap to grid'. defaults Write ...

South Park: made on Macs

by Mat Lu (Mar 26th, 2007)

Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this publicly, but I'm a big fan of South Park. So I was pleased to see the latest Apple Pro Profile is about the South Park Studios and their use of Macs. The construction paper feel is produced with Photoshop and Maya on 30 Power Mac G5s, with the final product ...

Nicktoons Networks shows on iTunes Store

by Scott McNulty (Oct 30th, 2006)

The Nicktoons Network has added some content to the iTunes Store. Skyland, set in the year 2251 on an Earth that has been shattered into million pieces, and the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. The Festival features seven episodes of animation from around the world including South Africa, Chine ...

ProCare promo video inspired by South Park, created by Apple Store employees

by David Chartier (Jul 18th, 2006)

We don't know how legit this is, or whether there's an Apple Store out there actually using this, but it appears as though some Apple Store employees have created a ProCare promotional video in the spirit of South Park. It features short, animated kids in a few quick scenarios of customers ...