Toontastic

Very many thanks to Mark Warner for his tweet last week that led me to the wonderful TOONTASTIC.

Toontastic - is a great app, and costs less than the price of a comic, but allows you to create your own animated comics using a range of characters, or ones that you have created yourself.
I'll send some links to some of the wonderful cartoons that my son has created, but it is now his favourite app (and that is some accolade)
The app is from Launchpad software, and provides a guide to comic creation, and a range of mood music and pre-created characters and backgrounds. There is also a ToonTube channel where comics can be shared, and badges can be earned for positive reviews of them.

A few thoughts for possible improvements which will hopefully emerge in the updated versions in the future:

- the chance for hand-drawn characters to be stored in a library so that they can be selected for more than one scene: at the moment, they have to be drawn for each scene they are in (unless there is a way of doing that already that I haven't spotted)
- similarly for backgrounds
- a selection of sound effects which can be generated by pressing icons while recording the scene ? (not sure how easy that would be to do, and whether the icons would get in the way of the scene)
- ability to use your own images as backgrounds - a photo scene of some mountains with characters in front of it would be cool...

Even without these, Toontastic is a great app and well worth the money

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