With the interactive portion over at this year's SXSW festival, there were quite a few interesting things on hand at the show. My favorite one is a painting and animation program created for the DS.
Software designer Sabiston is most well known for his rotoshop software used to create a stylized type of rotoscoping animation. He saw untapped potential in the DS's dual screens and touch interface and so he created a paint program with keyframe/flip-book animation possibilities. You have full control over many types of simulated paint mediums. Once completed, those images can be animated into a flip-book style animation. It doesn't stop there. You can add audio using the DS's mic and then upload the finished production to a computer via wi-fi.
His presentation at SXSW shows the DS's dual ARM processors are quite powerful and even mentioned Nintendo was at least watching his progress. He hopes his software will see release but even if it doesn't, he has plans to release it as a homebrew app.
Check out the video.
More pictures after the jump.
That's pretty cool. Whatever happened to the Bob Ross paint program they announced last year? Wasn't it for the DS or was it for the Wii? Either way, I want some happy trees dammit!
Wow, that's hot. It would motivate me to figure out how to get homebrew apps on my DS.
Were you at SXSWi? Would have loved to bump into you. Your blog rocks, so I bet you do too. Both of you that is.