Comment by Waterluvian
3 years ago
Phenomenal. For what it’s worth, I think this would be a killer app for my phone. My kids would easily spend hours drawing and animating their creations.
I’d pay money for this.
3 years ago
Phenomenal. For what it’s worth, I think this would be a killer app for my phone. My kids would easily spend hours drawing and animating their creations.
I’d pay money for this.
Get them one of these. They'll actually get the experience pf animating, broken down into bare terms...
https://the80sand90s.com/articles/etch-a-sketch-animator
that little toy I had as a kid did more to shape my career as than even hypercard.
FTA (and relevant): > What truly made this the best toy ever made was the amount of patience and perseverance a kid needed to create these animations, just like real animators. This is also why it would later fall from popularity.
Holy crap - I totally forgot that I had one of those and spent an obscene number of hours creating on it. Thanks for the memory-blast post!
Hah! Cool to meet another kid who grew up with that. I wish there were more actual devices like that now, with their own weird UIs and knobs and buttons, instead of everything being an app mixed in on a tablet with endless other apps. When you think about it, what a far-out thing for a company that made Etch-A-Sketches to engineer and sell...
That thing seemed really cool, but even at the time I passed on it because there was no way to save your work externally.
Yeah, the limited memory was a shortcoming. Still, in a way, that made it more in line with the notional paradigm of the Etch-A-Sketch... doing the drawing is the fun, but eventually you have to erase it and start over.
I would pay for that as well. All it needs is some kind of Android app.