I shared a still from this over the summer, but now BlueSky has video! Give it a watch and listen. It’s an iPad tapping soundboard I created with my 5yo. (He did the voices and inspired some of the character ideas!) - ThreadSky

bobjinx.bsky.social • 173 days ago

I shared a still from this over the summer, but now BlueSky has video! Give it a watch and listen.

It’s an iPad tapping soundboard I created with my 5yo. (He did the voices and inspired some of the character ideas!)

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jimcampbellart.bsky.social•42 days ago

I loved this the first time I saw it elsewhere and I’m loving it again here!

bobjinx.bsky.social•171 days ago

Here’s a short vid to better show the soundboard aspect of it.

kochalka.bsky.social•167 days ago

this has potential as a free app with popup ads for candy or something

aleclongstreth.bsky.social•173 days ago

Absolutely adorable - and the animation is so smooth and expressive. Super fun!

bobjinx.bsky.social•172 days ago

Thanks Alec! It was fun to really try to match the mouths of each character to how he was speaking.

aleclongstreth.bsky.social•172 days ago

My favorite was the little stacked three-headed buddy. Lovely unique mouth shapes on each of them! I'm itching to ask "how the heck do you make a soundboard?" but understand that might be really complicated. I'm assuming it's not just an app that builds them, but lots of stuff you know how to do.

bobjinx.bsky.social•172 days ago

I built it in Flash (Adobe Animate now), but had to jump through *a lot* of technical hurdles to get it converted to a format that works for iOS, emulator-type stuff. Because I still know actionscriot coding from years back.

A saner person would’ve used Unity.

aleclongstreth.bsky.social•172 days ago

Ha ha - I figured it was complicated! Even just as a standalone video it's great, but knowing you were able to actually port it to an interactive app where you could tap on the figures to play each animation + sound is next level! Really cool man, thanks for the rundown!