App Update: ToonCamera

App Store Description: Give your life a toon up with ToonCamera, a fun camera and photography app that turns your world into a live cartoon. Record live video, snap pictures, or load existing photos from your albums. You can then save your photos and videos, email them, or share them with others on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, all from within ToonCamera.

Cartoon and other art style effects are applied to your device's live camera feed through a form of automatic rotoscoping, a technique used in animated films that involves tracing over frames of live-action video with artistic strokes.

Features:

• 9 combinations of cartoon and art effects live on your camera.
• Cartoon, sketch, and stipple styles.
• Options for thick, thin, or solid lines.
• Take snaps and record videos in portrait or landscape.
• Load photos from your albums.
• Save your snaps to the photo album, email them, or share them on Twitter and Facebook.
• Save your videos to the photo album, email them, or share them on Twitter and YouTube.
• Switch between the front and back facing camera on the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4.
• Toggle on and off the flash on the iPhone 4.

App Store Link: ToonCamera; Price: £0.59/$0.99/€0.79

Editors comments: Overall this is an interesting app that lets you capture your videos with a cartoonistic look. ToonCamera also lets you capture stills, but sadly these are low-res only, so will only suit sharing on social network sites like Facebook.

Comments

[Karin]

Thank you. I couldn't resist this app. It does have some difficulty focusing every now and then but I've had plenty of fun with it. Here's my test. I didn't edit it on my iPhone (3GS) this time though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUL5jvRXWPE

[dougchapin]

Bummer that the video is only 480x320.

[Geoff white]

I found the video to very skippy while recording and during playback,dissapointing cause it's a great app.

[Massie]

Also, video is only for iOS 4.1 and higher.

[Steve G]

The 'toon effects are really well done, and the interface is quick and easy to use. Lack of resolution isn't a big deal as the rotoscoping effect looks good even at low-res.

I'm just disappointed that you can import photos but NOT videos. Often, I shoot something with my iPhone and then find that it would be a perfect scene for post processing with this app. Hopefully the developers will add this feature in a future update.

[keller]

looks like a cool app. will give it a try for sure.