How to make an animated interactive storybook for the iPad?
July 1, 2010 7:31 AM Subscribe
What technology and/or software is used to create animated interactive storybooks for the iOS (iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch) platform? Me and a friend of mine would like to convert one his illustrated children's stories into an iPad app by adding (minimal) animation and interaction to the existing drawings.
For example: you click on a rock in the drawing and a snake crawls out. Nothing too fancy. If this was going to be a DVD I would open After Effects and get to work, if it was destined to be a website I would probably turn to Flash. But I have no idea what to use for the iPad. I know the app itself has to be written in Objective C (or HMTL5) but what about the animation?
For example: you click on a rock in the drawing and a snake crawls out. Nothing too fancy. If this was going to be a DVD I would open After Effects and get to work, if it was destined to be a website I would probably turn to Flash. But I have no idea what to use for the iPad. I know the app itself has to be written in Objective C (or HMTL5) but what about the animation?
If you can do the animation with a JavaScript framework (jQuery, Prototype, etc) then you can use PhoneGap framework, load that into the SDK, and then compile as an HTML app.
Take a look at this: CSS Man animation for a proof of concept that is pretty cool. background.
For some of the animation, you *could* do it in Flash to do things like morphs, then export your animation as a series of images, which you can then manipulate in JavaScript.
posted by artlung at 8:35 AM on July 1, 2010
Take a look at this: CSS Man animation for a proof of concept that is pretty cool. background.
For some of the animation, you *could* do it in Flash to do things like morphs, then export your animation as a series of images, which you can then manipulate in JavaScript.
posted by artlung at 8:35 AM on July 1, 2010
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