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Flipnote Studio (DSi) now available for download in North America. (FREE!)
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First try with sound added in: http://bit.ly/15CDYw
Go to the sound page, hit A, B, or Y, to record a sound in that slot. You can't make those three any longer. Then push the play button on that page, and use A, B, and Y to trigger the sound during playback and it'll assign the sound to that frame. As for music, I think you just wait until you have all your frames, then hit record and it should record for the entire duration of the animation.HUELEN10 said:
CreatureX3
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BGBW said:The thing is Nintendo has already made the best piece of animation possible with this software. It will never be beaten.
Amazing.
CamHostage
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The most awesome software on DSi and Nintendo stealth-releases it on an irregular day... interesting choice.
I starred those, and it added stars but didn't put it on my starred items page. Favoriting the user also didn't add them to my page. And lastly, I tried using Command Search to manually load one of them up on my DS, and it said nothing matched my command.wondermega said:
In short, it seems content from different regions (or English and Japanese) are locked out on the DSi.
Wow, my Game Boy animation shot up in popularity 
Been playing around with it, here's some tips people might appreciate...
In drawing mode:
Hold L and drag to move the current page around
Press B to switch layers
Press A to cycle through tools
Press X to clear the current page (not positive, but it seems to be what it does)
Hold Y and press Left to Undo, Right to Redo
Hold Select and drag to draw straight lines
Hold Start and drag to draw vertical and horizontal lines
Getting sprites in your animations:
I think this is how people do it, I've only tested a little and it seemed to work well enough.
Load up your sprite on your PC
Make it black and white
Zoom in
Take a photo of your screen with the DSi cam. It should be really big.
Import the picture to flipnote studio
Cut out the background and hit the "resize" button until it's the right size.
Also, on the website: (not on the DSi)
In the top right corner where it says "English | Americas" click on Americas and you can set it to "English | Worldwide (All)"
This will allow you to star and favorite (as well as browse) creations from other regions. It still doesn't seem to make them show on your DSi though. I haven't found a way to do that yet.
Been playing around with it, here's some tips people might appreciate...
In drawing mode:
Hold L and drag to move the current page around
Press B to switch layers
Press A to cycle through tools
Press X to clear the current page (not positive, but it seems to be what it does)
Hold Y and press Left to Undo, Right to Redo
Hold Select and drag to draw straight lines
Hold Start and drag to draw vertical and horizontal lines
Getting sprites in your animations:
I think this is how people do it, I've only tested a little and it seemed to work well enough.
Load up your sprite on your PC
Make it black and white
Zoom in
Take a photo of your screen with the DSi cam. It should be really big.
Import the picture to flipnote studio
Cut out the background and hit the "resize" button until it's the right size.
Also, on the website: (not on the DSi)
In the top right corner where it says "English | Americas" click on Americas and you can set it to "English | Worldwide (All)"
This will allow you to star and favorite (as well as browse) creations from other regions. It still doesn't seem to make them show on your DSi though. I haven't found a way to do that yet.
Dedication Through Light
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ShineALight said:
Nice Basketball!
InfectedZero
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Just got done with my first serious animation that took me an hour. :lol
TV Crab episode 1 - http://flipnote.hatena.com/582D6E9031CC5768@DSi/movie/CC5768_09082BE424802_000
TV Crab episode 1 - http://flipnote.hatena.com/582D6E9031CC5768@DSi/movie/CC5768_09082BE424802_000
Crazyorloco
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I commented on yours earlier. So cool.BooJoh said:
Here's mine.
http://flipnote.hatena.com/5B1DFF001E304362@DSi/movie/304362_090816D485960_001?in=user
If you have a DSi I highly recommend you download this nowwwwwwwwwww! it's great.
Checking out everyone's notes. I love this app
Create your animation, then click the sound icon. When you click the record button for "Music" it will record for as long as the duration of your animation. To see this, if you don't have a long animation, try going into the filmstrip mode and insert a couple hundred blank frames, then go to record music, and you'll see that the music track became much longer than it was before.
I just tested this to confirm.sfried said:
Create your animation, then click the sound icon. When you click the record button for "Music" it will record for as long as the duration of your animation. To see this, if you don't have a long animation, try going into the filmstrip mode and insert a couple hundred blank frames, then go to record music, and you'll see that the music track became much longer than it was before.
Holy crap, thank you!BooJoh said:Checking out everyone's notes. I love this app
I just tested this to confirm.
Create your animation, then click the sound icon. When you click the record button for "Music" it will record for as long as the duration of your animation. To see this, if you don't have a long animation, try going into the filmstrip mode and insert a couple hundred blank frames, then go to record music, and you'll see that the music track became much longer than it was before.
I just managed to "stich" together a fully edited song with DSi Sound. Do I just keep importing and then dumping it to the main Music mix (Hold L while selecting sound and stuff)?
Really wanting this.InfectedZero
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Jazzem said:
Why thank you! =)
InfectedZero
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Just hold down right on the Dpad while you draw.Mutagenic said:
Has anyone figured out what the mystery icon under the paint tool does? At first I thought it just made a bigger tool tip, but that doesn't seem true when you switch to advanced options. In the sample flipbooks it says you can turn the tooltip sideways using the mystery icon, but I haven't been able to do it.
Also, a tip that I picked up that hasn't been mentioned yet, I think, is that you can draw a shape with the select tool then select the paint brush and blow into it to do a fill bucket on the shape.
Also, a tip that I picked up that hasn't been mentioned yet, I think, is that you can draw a shape with the select tool then select the paint brush and blow into it to do a fill bucket on the shape.
InfectedZero
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Yeah I dont know what the hell is with the ? symbol. I thought that if you blow while drawing it would do something. Also fun fact, just read that if you can export your animation as a GIF through an SD card. Saw someone asking about that earlier.Jak140 said:
Oli said:
Yes, the sound interface is quite ingenious. You can slow down your animation and put in the effect at exactly the point you want, then return it to full speed. Alternately, you can use this system to make very high-pitch voices as in thousands of the Japanese submissions, which increases the awesomeness greatly.
dani_dc said:
Talent Not Required.
Part of the genius is that people can create 'templates' for you to download and fill in. So, for example, a conversation between Mario and Luigi with empty speech bubbles (this is the most common one in Japan in my experience).
Everyone downloads the basic version, adds text and tweaks it if they like, then re-submits.
Then hatena make entire channels out of the more popular ones, so you end up with seeing loads of hilarious and some terrible versions of the same comic strip.
InfectedZero
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So what gives, why am I allowed to give as many stars to someone as I want? How do I know one person didnt give someone like 100 stars?
InfectedZero
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Haha guess that makes sense....also what about friends? I cant seem to add anyone or cant figure out how to. Ive been messing with this all day and still cant figure it out.
mrkgoo said:So what's he best output format? To export as an animated gif?
Man I wish I had actual creativity and talent.
You can save as animated GIF which is handy for local distribution but loses the soundtrack.
Best is to upload it to Hatena, then use the link to show people online. That way you can also get comments and stars, etc.
Just messed around with it, here's what the sample animation is trying to show (and how the tool worked when I tried it.)Jak140 said:
1) Paint something
2) Draw a selection around what you painted
3) Switch to the ? tool
4) When you paint with the ? tool, it will fill the area with your selection, tiled.
Also, while using the select tool, select an area, then hold L and you can move the selected area around.
Also haven't figured this out. The "friends" area is still empty, even while following someone who followed me, and I don't see any other way to "friend" them, unless maybe it involves a non-english part of the hatena site, like the blogs or something.InfectedZero said:
metsallica
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I'm not positive on this, but I believe you fill the "Friends" area by doing DSi-to-DSi Flipnote transfers.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
Yay I maed a do.
http://flipnote.hatena.com/541E53D0CC783BAF@DSi/movie/783BAF_09082568A4A94_003
I like it better looping I think.
http://flipnote.hatena.com/541E53D0CC783BAF@DSi/movie/783BAF_09082568A4A94_003
I like it better looping I think.
:Motorbass
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I think I read that you have to exchange Pics via Local Wifi with someone to be friends with him.BooJoh said:
Why would you do that?
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So, I played around with it for an hour and a half, you know, instead of sleeping, and made this:
(I didn't upload it to the server yet so I'm sorry if showing the GIF here's bad...)
It was basically my first hand drawn animation I've ever really tried in my life... so it isn't that great. It actually looks a little better on the DS than in GIF form...
So far, the software is indeed amazing. I haven't even tried many of the other features of it, and it is already one of the greatest Nintendo products I've ever tried.
Essentially, I can see the application being useful for many things, especially since you can create animated GIFs from it.
I kind of just... want to animate more. It's pretty fun and pretty rewarding to me.
(I didn't upload it to the server yet so I'm sorry if showing the GIF here's bad...)
It was basically my first hand drawn animation I've ever really tried in my life... so it isn't that great. It actually looks a little better on the DS than in GIF form...
So far, the software is indeed amazing. I haven't even tried many of the other features of it, and it is already one of the greatest Nintendo products I've ever tried.
Essentially, I can see the application being useful for many things, especially since you can create animated GIFs from it.
I kind of just... want to animate more. It's pretty fun and pretty rewarding to me.
http://flipnote.hatena.com/59AAAF301E172197@DSi/movie/172197_090821F318384_000
A simple one I made last night for my wife.
A simple one I made last night for my wife.
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