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This Week’s Featured Artist: footsocktoe

This Week’s Featured Artist is one of our newer members, but we were totally blown away by how they used our vector tools. Just amazing how clean and cool all the props are, that they make. We really appreciate all the great new props that have been added to our library for everyone to use! They are also a great animator with an incredibly smooth animation style. We love this users inspiring style and creativity, this week’s featured artist is footsocktoe.




Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?

Check out my movies at GoAnimate.com — same username: footsocktoe! None of them use doink props yet, but they will eventually!

(Here is one we at Doink think is cool):

The Frog and the Butterfly by footsocktoe, made at DoInk.com

Doink and Artful Artsy Amy Education Blog!

Thank you so much to Ms. Amy for her incredible blog post and even more incredible animation of what Teachers do during Summer Vacation. (We always wanted to know!) We love her blog called Artful Artsy Amy here is the link.

As Ms Amy says:

Kiddos need all the positive empowerment they can get.  I think that is, perhaps, my biggest reason for incorporating animation and technology into the classroom: empowerment.  Many of my students love gaming and viewing animation and fantasize about “how cool” it would be to “do that when they grow up.”  Yet, free (free!) technology is so advanced that they can do it now…And, then have a great foundational skill to build on later for a possible career.  Additionally, they, as digital natives, learn new technology more speedily and use new technology more effectively than I do; they teach me so much.

We love seeing Doink in the classroom and having such amazing teachers like Ms. Amy use our tools!

What Teachers Do on Summer Vacation by cmsdigitalart, made at DoInk.com

This Weeks Featured Artist - 1998pinkpony

This week’s featured is so talented. We have been completely blown away by the detail in some of the props that she has made. Her Titanic and Dime are just amazing. Basically all of her props are just amazing and we are so glad she lets all of us use them! We also loved her spotlight clip in this interview, she did it for Science class. We love seeing Doink used in schools, especially in such a entertaining and creative way. We love how inspiring this artist is to our entire Doink community and we really appreciate how active she has been. This week’s Featured artist is: 1998pinkpony.


Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?

My favorite clip so far is one that is in progress, which obviously you guys can’t see yet. Out of the ones that I have published, I would have to say that my favorite is my science project.


Science project :) by 1998pinkpony, made at DoInk.com

Doink iPad app is the App of the Week for YALSA!

We are honored that the Doink Animation & Drawing App for the iPad was chosen to be the App of the week for the YALSA blog. YALSA is the official blog for the Young Adult Library Services Association. YALSA’s mission is to provide a fast, focused, and flexible format for publishing information about the YA librarianship community. We really appreciate the wonderful write up on Doink Animation & Drawing app that they are providing to their librarianship community

We love the suggestions from YALSA on how young adults can use Doink Animation & Drawing App for the iPad and how creative and addictive this app can be for all ages! Here is what YALSA said about Doink Animation & Drawing:

“Why not suggest teens put their DoInk animations on their Facebook pages and then you can also embed them in your library’s teen social media presences. Perhaps a gallery of teen created DoInks and even a celebration of their creations virtually and/or face-to-face could be organized.

Just beware when you, and the teens you work with, start with DoInk, you may find the process at least slightly addicting.”

Here is a link to the YALSA blog.

This Week’s Featured Aritst - bhappy

This week’s featured artist is incredibly talented and a great community member. We loved her recent “enter meaningful title here’ clip. We also loved her desert, her great bear for Friday Night Doinking and countless other clips that she has made. We really appreciate that she is such an active and positive part of the Doink community. This week’s featured artist is bhappy (I even love her name!)

Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?

I usually spend a reeeeeeeaaally long time trying to wake up every morning. I go to school (duh :D) and after school I have track. When I can, I draw, listen to music, and laze around.

How old were you when you started drawing? Ever animated anything before?

When I was little, I refused to draw because in my mind, it wasn’t perfect enough. Finally I started, and I’m glad I did! My first animation was a little flip book of mitosis :)

Not right now…

What inspires you?

Everything I see inspires me. Music, art, conversations, anything. Whatever happens in my day influences the mood of my art.

Zuko, from Avatar: The Last Airbender. What a hunk :D

I love Journey (and maybe a little One Direction.)

I like AddictingGames :D

I love art (obviously), running track, karate, flirting (:DDD) and acting like a spaz.

I don’t do computer games much. I do love an iPod game called Cause of Death.

My teacher at school let us go on DoInk if we increased our typing speed enough. I tried it and fell in love with it, so I made an account. My experience? I LOOOVE IT.

I would add a reply button in the forums. That would make it a lot easier to know what someone said about your comment.

Keep trying! If someone is critical about your artwork, ignore the negative and focus on the positive. You would be shocked by how much you improve. If you aren’t satisfied with your work, try again! Remember to never settle. Strive and you’ll never stop improving. :D

Morning Dew by bhappy, made at DoInk.com

I feel like I have a new perspective on spiders.

Nah, they’re still creepy XD

Doink featured in Deep South Ed Tech!

Thank you so  much to Ms.Turner the Instructional Technology Specialist at Colquitt County Schools in South GA for her great blog post on animating with Doink! We really appreciate her saying we are her new animation best friend! Hey he always love making new best friends! She did a great animation and we can’t wait to see what her students create with Doink Animation & Drawing for the iPad, Doink Express for iPod/iPhone and Doink.com.

Here is the link to her blog Deep South Ed Tech

Under the Sea 2 by melanie_turner, made at DoInk.com

Doink iPad App featured in Langwitches Blog

We are so appreciative of Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano a global teacher who now lives in the US.  Ms. Tolisano is a teacher with an emphasis on Instructional Technology. She has worked as a World Language teacher, Technology Integration Facilitator and 21st Century Learning Specialist. So she is a very technically savvy teacher! She has included the Doink Animation & Drawing App for the iPad in her chart for the best iPad apps for creating. This subject is the top post for her Education blog. To see the entire chart and blog, which includes many other outstanding iPad apps (Doink is in great company), please see this link: Langwitches Blog.

This Week’s Featured Artist - keetkid86

This week’s featured artist is great. We loved her spotlight clip, Lazy Days which is just excellent. She does a lot of wolves that are great, but we also love her cats, dragons and even her spinning hamburgers are really cool! She has so much talent and she is such an inspiration to us all here on DoInk. This week’s featured artist is keetkid86.

Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?

First, I usualy wake up and go to school. Luckily, I don’t always have alot of homework so I come on here. :) Im usualy working on a run cycle or a little sketch

How old were you when you started drawing? Ever animated anything before?

When I started drawing…I think I was mabey 4? I drew stick figures or stick dogs.. I drew a few weird looking mice and dinosaurs too..i am so wierd xD .And when I started animating, I was in 3rd grade or somthing. Not on here, on little post-it note pads and the corner of notebooks. I still do it when im bored in school xD.

Do you have a favorite artist or animator?

I don’t have a favorite artist because everyone is good to me. I don’t think it’s fair to choose someones art over anothers, it might make the other person feel bad. Although, I do have a favorite animator. I love the way Disney animates, and the style of drawing that animating company uses :-)

What inspires you?

Music, things in ordinary life, my awesome dogs. Mostly music and my dogs, though. if i’m listening to sad music, im most likely to draw somthin sad. Im im listening to rock, then most likely somthing violent or bloody. Music sets my mood. And my dogs. If I see my dogs doing somthing, like mabey laying around sleeping, being lazy, that might inspire me to draw somthing like ‘Lazy Days’, the drawing a made a few days ago.

Do you have a favorite cartoon and/or anime character?

I don’t really watch/like anime, but Blue and Kiba from ‘Wolfs Rain’ might be my favorite. Weed is also a nice character. Garfield the cat is my favorite cartoon character.

What is your favorite musician or band, what are you listening to?

I don’t really have a favorite band. I listen to everything mostly except country(ewww), rap, and pop.

What are your Favorite websites, outside of DoInk?

I like YouTube and freerice.com. freerice asks you simple math, english, vocab etc. and for every question you get right 10 grains of rice are given to starving kids in Africa.

What are your hobbies?

Ahh, my hobbies. They include:Drawing(duh), Animating(duh again), fishing, swimming, and playing the flute. Does pet-keeping count as a hobby? if so, then i have lots of pets xD.

What are your favorite Computer Games?

Hmm…I dont really play computer games :/ Im usualy drawing on an amazing website. (Doink!!)

How did you find DoInk and what is your experience so far?

Well, I found doink through school with my best friend, kozmosis(her username on here). We both had had a great time so far. I really love the Create!!

If you could add any features to DoInk, what would they be?

Hmm..I’d say sound, or emocticons.

Any advice for other DoInk users?

Keep practicing drawing and animating!! You’ll get better. Plus, I see alot of ‘realistic art’. Its not really that realistic. Look at some anatomy of what you’re drawing, and their features. Your drawings will improve by ALOT. :-)

What is your favorite clip that you have done?

My favorite clip would be ‘Floe in Reality’. I LOVE the way of shading, and its kinda my special way of shading..the one thing really special to me. 

Floe~ In reality by keetkid86, made at DoInk.com

Dominican University great blog post on Doink

Thank you Dominican University School of Education in Chicago for this amazing write up on Doink. Here is a link to this excellent article on Doink, a tools that is great for teachers: Dominican University link.

As the article says:

“Think how much more fun a student would have creating an animated report about the solar system as opposed to doing it the old-fashioned way. The wide array of creative options available with free online tools such as DoInk should have great attraction for teachers.

They might find it much easier to get their students to do their homework if they assigned them an animation project instead of a traditional writing activity.”

Here is a great example of just what the article suggested a animated report on the solar system (and we have lots more!):

The Solar System by AmyJohnson, made at DoInk.com

BUILD Contest Winner

We loved the contest we just completed with BUILD to create a logo. BUILD’s mission http://www.build.org/page.aspx?pid=326 “is to use entrepreneurship to excite and propel disengaged, low-income students through high school to college success. During the course of the 4 year program, teams of high school students develop a business.” The Build team we were working with asked our community to develop a logo for their “Convert-a-Bag”, a convertible bag that transforms from a backpack to a messenger bag (two straps to one) targeted at high school and college students.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered this contest. You truly are the designers of the future! We really appreciate everyone putting so much time, thought and effort into your submission. But there has to be one winner (Karen and I luckily didn’t have to make the decision. The BUILD students were the judges because you know how hard it is on both Karen and I to decide a winner. We usually end up not speaking for weeks! ) So the team at BUILD chose this logo

http://www.doink.com/clips/rooklee/2046734/convert-a-bag-2—-contest*

The Doink community chose these two entries as their favorites:

http://www.doink.com/clips/Ray125/2042391/build-contest (Ray125 you had several excellent entries, thank you so much for your awesomeness!)

http://www.doink.com/clips/bhappy/2038892/build-contest

We loved working with BUILD. They are a great organization with a great mission. As always, we were amazed by the talent of our Doink Community! Thank you!

Check out all the amazing Doink entries submitted for the contest: