“Take a bow, Australia. Two of our young citizens, Cris Pearson and Keith Lang, share the honour of winning a coveted Apple Design award for ‘Best Product New to Mac OS X,'” Garry Barker reports for The Sydney Morning Herald. Comic Life… is an international enterprise, combining talents in France, Switzerland, the US and Melbourne, and exists solely on the internet.”
“Only two of the five principals have ever met, although they email each other constantly from their PowerBooks and occasionally make Skype calls when they need to talk,” Barker reports. “Comic Life, conceived by Robert Grant, the US partner, in collaboration with the other partners over the internet, allows you to make a comic book from your digital photographs, complete with speech balloons, captions and effects.”
“Comic Life, downloadable from plasq.com, costs $US24.95 ($A32) and is more fun than a kid with a ferret in church,” Barker writes.
Full article here.
More info and download link (free 30-day trial) for Comic Life here.
I have 2 ferrets –
They are fun. i’ve never taken them to church before though…..
I’ve got seve ferrets and they are really fun but I think the church thing would be out. It would be pretty funny though.
Ferrets can be fun, but squirrels are where it’s at:
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best program evaaahhh
i LOVE it
This is a great application. Download it. Try it. It couldn’t be much easier to create decent comics. Comic Life is integrated into iPhoto so you can drag and drop photos into the comic frames, then use pre-set effects to give the photo a “comic book” look. Sweet.
Tera Patricks
Mac360
MDN Magic Word “married” as in NOT!
This program rocks! I bought it immediately after trying it. We used it in a movie we made for the 48 Hour Film Project and it helped us win best special effects!
“Tera Patricks
Mac360
MDN Magic Word “married” as in NOT!”
Was that a solicitation for a proposal?
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Comic Life rocks. You’ll pull your credit card out to buy it as fast as you can say “POW!!!” “BAM!!!” or “SPLASH!!!”
Oh, dear, the most fun Aussies can have is with a flexible furry animal in a church. Pity.
Must be due to all those felonious homozygous recessive alleles.
I will go one better — using shooting some video using the new Sony HVR-ZU1 HDV Camcorder, I created a 512 x 288 pixel QuickTime HD H.264 QT movie file with Final Cut Pro HD, then played it back with the QT 7.x player. By dragging the play head to whatever point in the video that was of interest, I was able to screen capture great quality video frame grabs/stills, that were used to create a hillarious comic strip using Comic Life — since I am grabbing essentially HD H.264 stills, the imagery is superb — colors are perfect and resolution is outstanding. The candid shots that I was able to extract/generate using this method FAR exceeds what one could ever hope to capture using a still digital camera, since I am capturing steady-stream video that I can freeze frame at every eye-blink or nose twitch, with outstanding clarity and resolution. Comic Life provides the perfect tool for exploiting this leap in technology.
You should see what kind of hilarity I extracted from a recent wedding video — too rich in humor, and folks are going to despise me . . .
Niffy
“Tera Patricks
Mac360
MDN Magic Word “married” as in NOT!”
Was that a solicitation for a proposal?
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Or a solicitation for a proposition?
You gotta pay attention during ‘reading & comprehension’ class MeatOfMoose!
Article states: “…and is more fun than a kid with a ferret in church”
No mention of “the most fun”.
Come spend a week in Sydney. More fun than you can handle (or probably afford), guaranteed.
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