New iPhone Photo App: iMotion
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 8:00AM | Glyn Evans **** THIS APPLICATION IS FREE UNTIL OCTOBER 20TH ****
Description from the AppStore: IMotion is a simple and intuitive animation and stopmotion software, using the camera of your iPhone. It allows you to capture manually and automatically up to 500 pictures and to generate an animation out of this pictures. Each animation created can be saved, sent via email, and exported in the Photo library of your iPhone.
Features:
automatic capture mode with definable timer parametrable up to 500 photos- automatic generation of an animation with parametering of the number of images per second
- recording and charging of created animations
- sending animation in animated .gif via email
- photo export of an animation in the photo library of your iPhone
- onion skin mode with parametering of transparency level
- manual capture mode
- the current capture is resume after interruption stop (iphone low battery shutdown and income refused call)
The frame by frame animation is a technique used in many animated movies such as The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wallace & Gromit or Chicken Run. It can also be used to film scenes in accelerated mode according to the stopmotion principle (sunset, crowd movement…).
Imotion requires the OS iPhone 3.1 version in order to function and is optimized for 3GS.
AppStore Link: iMotion - Price FREE
Editors comments: This is an interesting app, so get it while it's FREE. I have downloaded it and had a brief play, and the features look promising. The app even works OK on my iPhone 3G despite being optimised for the 3GS, although on first glance it does seem to struggle to capture and process images on a short time-lapse timer interval.
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Reader Comments (2)
I tried this app and it outputs some great results!
iMotion did get an update. Now its possible to export the motion to a video, but only in smaller size - don't know why.
Personally I prefer iMotion to ReelMoments, but none of them are really perfect - so, you have to decide on your own which app seems to be better to you