February 2012
3 posts
DoInk iPad featured in Apps for Education list
Gregory Swanson is a Visual Arts teacher who writes the blog Apps for Education. He has put together a list of iPad apps that he uses every day. This list is to help other teachers who ask him for recommendations of what apps they should get for their class. As he writes:
“People often ask what apps I would recommend for Teachers? There is no simply answer that fits all. What I do is give...
Doink Express - A great Review from Internet...
Thanks so much to Internet Gumshoe for the great review of DoInk Express our new iPhone/iPod app. They really liked the User Interface and how easy it was to animate with our app. This is what they said about the app “This is a great animation tool, DK Pictures have done a very good job at bringing all the features to the small screen.” (they also really like our iPad app!) To see the...
This Week's Featured Artist - lovestoolol
This week’s featured artist is amazing. She just did a version of Ash and Pikachu which is excellent with incredible detail. We love her batman avatar too, it is awesome. Her spotlight clip of a tribute to the Alice in Wonderland game is amazing too. A very twisted version of Alice. We also thought it was so cool that this week’s artist found about us from a teacher at school....
January 2012
10 posts
This Week's Featured Artist of the Week: Denom
This week’s featured artist is so cool. We love his stuff. We really loved his mosquito prop, with incredible wing animation. Just perfect! Then we also love so many of his other clips. His sonics and other cool creatures are just excellent. This week’s featured artist is Denom
Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?
I have to wake up everyone at home. Then I go to...
Great Doink Expres Write up from the iPhoneMom
We want to thank Heather over at the iPhoneMom blog. She published this great write up of the Doink Express app. (Right after giving us a great review for our iPad app recently too!) We really appreciate it and the excellent resource for parents and kids with iOS devices. Here is a link to the iPhoneMom’s great piece on DoInk Express.
This Week's Featured Artist - LassieTheArtist
This week’s featured artist is incredibly talented. We really love her work and we always appreciate how active she is in our community. She is always so positive and always so involved in all our community contests. We also love that she is related to one of other favorite artists. So cool to have great families on DoInk! This week’s featured artist is: LassieTheArtist.
Tell us...
Great Doink Express Review from Feed My App
Thank you so much to FeedmyApp for the great review of our new app Doink Express. We really appreciate the excellent review and as they said “If you are a fan of flash animation but haven’t a clue as to how to create it then Doink Express is a fine place to start. Here we have a photo and drawing app for iPad2, iPhone and iPod Touch that delivers the tools to make cool looking...
Doink Express Review from iApps for Teachers
We have been getting some incredible reviews on our new iPhone/iPod app Doink Express. We were so happy with this review from iApps for Teachers. They gave Doink Express an excellent review. (and also said how much they love our iPad app too) Here is what Jason Boyer said about the Doink Express app: “The whole purpose of this application is to allow ones imagination to go wild, and whether...
WatchThis week’s featured artist is incredibly talented. Even her avatar is just awesome, I love that it is fun sized! She has so much talent so many of her clips we have been blown away by. She has incredible detail and just really amazing technique. She is an inspiration to us all. This week’s featured artist is Believe.
Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like?
My...
WatchHere is NyokoRainbowx3 Spotlight clip for this week’s featured artist!
This Week's Featured Artist - NyokoRainbowx3
We really noticed this week’s artist with her amazing clip for our Holiday11 contest. We loved the moving ribbons and just the incredible detail that she created in this clip. Her Holiday11 clip is her spotlight clip. We love many of her other clips as well and we really appreciate how involved she is in DoInk contests and our community. She is an inspiration to us all. This...
WatchHere the video for Arry’s featured artist post.
December 2011
9 posts
This Week's Featured Artist: Arry
We liked a lot of this artists clips, but we were completely blown away by her entry into our Holiday11 Contest. We loved the detail in that clip as well as the great blur technique she used: http://www.doink.com/clips/arry/1867859/merry-christmas-d. She is an amazing inspiring artist and a wonderful community member. This week’s featured artist is: Arry...
WatchHere is the Winning Animation for our Holiday11 Contest
We know everyone wanted to know more about this years winner of the Holiday11 contest. So we did a very in-dept interview of this intriguing subject! She is one of our favorite DoInkers and she has always been such an incredible member of this community. We can’t say enough about her and how talented she is! This is our Holiday Interview with Crazy4pie. Happy Holidays to All!
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This Week's Featured Artist - Pachoofoosh
This week’s featured artist is amazing, really talented as an animator and artist. We have loved so many of her clips. She is also a great community member. Very involved and inspiring of other people in our DoInk community. This week’s featured artist is pachoofoosh. Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like? I have a pretty normal life. xD I go to school, and when I get...
The Winners for the Holiday11 Contest
We have the Winners for the Holiday11 Contest and all the incredible runners up. Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this contest and created such incredible animations. We wish you all the best for your Holidays! -The DoInk Team Winner http://www.doink.com/clips/Crazy4pie/1854181/penguins-greetings
The Two Runner Ups:
Best story...
Another Brilliant DoInk Animation Created on the...
Another brilliant blog write up from iPad Creative! Thank you iPad Creative for showcasing this amazing group of animation students at Clay Animation Network, The Traveling Animation School. They are a phenomenal group of students doing incredible work. We talk to our friend Lukas Allenbaugh there (he is the Owner & Director) and he is just awesome! We love his animation program, every quarter...
This Week's Featured Artist - themagicfrog
This week’s featured artist has been in our community for a few years now. We love that he has been around and inspiring us all for this time. He has such an eclectic style. Sometime he does kind of simple things then other times really complicated clips. He is a great artist and animator. We loved his Halloween clip for our Halloween contest this year and we also love his spotlight...
This Week's Featured Artist - 1inamillion
We loved this week’s Featured Artist clip for Halloween. It was a really striking clip of a woman and candy corns all around her, just orange and awesome! I also really liked her tribute to 9/11, really simple, but beautiful and moving. I love her spotlight clip of hazel eyes. Okay I love a lot of her work! We love that she is so involved in the DoInk community and part of our contests....
DoInk Animation & Drawing Reviewed in...
Thanks so much to iHeartThisApp for the outstanding review of our app and saying that we have an outstanding app! Hey that’s a lot of outstandings in one sentence! iHeartThisApp is a blog dedicated to finding highly recommended iPhone and iPad apps. They have many guest reviewers, parents who check out the best apps available and review them with their kids. We were so pleased that they gave...
November 2011
10 posts
This Week's Featured Artist - Raiza
We noticed this week’s featured artist with her adorable witch for our Halloween contest. We have also noticed her work and detail in other pieces too. We love her style. She has great talent and we love that she is another wonderful artist that is part of our growing international community! This week’s featured artist is Raiza. Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day...
This Week's Featured Artist: BroadwayWolf6
This week’s featured artist is awesome. We love her work, it is always so detailed and just amazing. We love all the things that are inspired in her work too, like Audrey from little shop of horrors. We also love that her spotlight clip is inspired by Harry Potter. (You know we love everything Harry Potter.) She is just an amazing artist, always involved in the DoInk community and an...
Internet Gumshoe's great Review of the DoInk iPad...
The DoInk Animation & Drawing App just got an excellent review from the Internet Gumshoe blog. Internet Gumshoe is a blog that hunts down the best stuff on OSX, iOS and WebOS, so users don’t have to. We think they find the best apps out there! They gave the DoInk Animation & Drawing App a score of 88% out of a 100% with a really good write up and review. They would like to see photo...
This Week's Featured Artist - EVIE
We love this week’s featured artist. She really has a style of her own and it is so recognizable. Pretty much whenever I see her work, I know it is her. It is such a cool style and I just love how all of her characters turn out. They have such a charm about them. Hard to describe charm in art, but we think she has it! Even her avatar is just so cute! We love her work, she is from...
The IEAR Blog Review of DoInk App for iPad
We were so happy that the educational blog IEAR.org, (I Educate App Review) wrote up the DoInk Animation & Drawing App for the iPad app last week. iEar is a great blog because it is a community of educators that work to grade educational apps. They are teachers and are using these apps in their classroom. Here is the great IEAR Blog, we were so happy that they liked our app because it...
DoInk in iPad Creative again highlighting...
We were so happy to be featured in the iPad Creative blog for the third time. This is such a great and creative blog, we are always so happy to featured. We were thrilled that they highlighted a video of our iPad clips for education and said our DoInk Animation & Drawing app was:
“their brilliant iPad vector drawing and animation app can be used in the Education field. We have already...
This Week's Featured Artist - KitSnicket
This week’s featured artist is someone we have watched for a long time. I was actually surprised that I had not interviewed her yet as a featured artist! My bad, sorry about that… She is amazing. The detail and complexity of her work is spectacular. She is just so incredibly talented. She inspires all of us in the DoInk community to be better just because of her work. Her...
Gametrender Reviews the DoInk iPad App=Best App!
Gametrender just reviewed the DoInk Animation & Drawing app for the iPad and said we were the “best” animation and Drawing App for the iPad. Thanks so much for the great review, we really appreciate it! Gametrender is the home of the best of Android apps and iPhone apps and the home of app gaming! It is a great blog with tons of fun app and they said we were the best!! Here is the...
This Week's Featured Artist - Cane
This week’s featured artist is so amazing. He has blown us away with so many of his clips. Certainly his Harry Potter, the spotlight clip with this interview is just spectacular. His shading and detail are really amazing and we just love his style. You really need to check out all his work and we just find his style, shading and great interview an inspiration to all of us here at DoInk....
A Great Review from Apps in Education
We want to thank the great teacher Gregory Swanson from Australia for his excellent review of the DoInk Animation & Drawing App for iPad. This review was in his blog Apps in Education. He has a big list of animation apps in here, yet he has several paragraphs and two clips from our app. As he said ” This has been one of the most fun apps I have played with for some time. This was...
October 2011
9 posts
The Halloween Contest Winner Interview - Sketchcat...
We had to learn more about this amazing artist and animator who could take Dr. Horrible and a bunch of pumpkins and turn them into such an amazing Halloween animation! We hope you all have an awesome Halloween! Thanks again to everyone for taking so much time, to make the most amazing Halloween animations ever! We will have another contest soon. What is your favorite Halloween memory? ...
The iPhone Mom & her Awesome review of the DoInk...
The iPhone Mom a great blog written by a very witty Mom of four. She says she is not too “techy” but she seems pretty cool and techy to us! We love her blog and we love all the great things she has to say about the DoInk Animation & Drawing App for the iPad. Here is the great iPhone Mom blog and write up of DoInk!
The Winner for the Halloween Contest!
We loved this years submissions for our Halloween Contest. They were spooktacular (like my great use of Halloween words?) There were so many amazing contest entries, we were completely blown away. We really struggled to find the winners because we LOVED so many of them. Thanks so much to everyone for putting so much effort into your amazing submission. But there had to be a grand prize...
This Week's Featured Artist - Somethingnew
This week’s featured artist is an amazing animator and artist. I loved her flying pig for Friday Night DoInking last week and if you check out her work, her art and animations are fantastic. She really makes the movement in her animations look so seamless and simple, which we all know it is really hard! We love that she is so active in our contests too. I was just checking out one of...
Mindleap Apps Reviews DoInk Animation & Drawing
The DoInk Animation & Drawing App just got a great review from Mindleap Apps, a wonderful blog for educational apps. This blog is for parents and educators to help them find great Apps for kids (well not just kids with this app, adults too as they point out). Mindleap does a great job of putting apps into age categories and also even more helpful they rank apps on 1) Overall Quality 2)...
This Week's Featured Artist - GranolaBar
How could this injustice of happened? Yes somehow I have not featured this artist yet. I tell ya, they need to get some more competent people working at this website! Just saying… Okay that is rant my for the day. This week’s featured artist is amazing, she has even won our Holiday10 contest (highlighted in this interview). So in my defense I have actually interviewed her before...
Happy Face Apps Great review of DoInk's iPad App
We were so happy with the review this week from Happy Face Apps. This blog promotes outstanding educational apps, story apps and games which are approved by parents and teachers alike. They focus only on the best of the best apps and they reviewed and loved our DoInk Animation & Drawing app (this is the itunes link)! Here is the great write up of our the DoInk Animation & Drawing app....
This Week's Featured Artist - Fi19
This week’s featured artist is great. She makes extremely detailed and really amazing clips. We love her style and her great involvement in our community. We thought her back to school clip was really cool. A great example of the angst that going back to school can create. She has done some amazing Halloween clips lately too. She is an inspiration to all of us in the DoInk community....
This Week's Featured Artist - TROgirl
We love this week’s featured artist and I was really having a hard time figuring out which one of her clips I liked best, since I like so many of them. It is a good thing we make you featured artist pick your favorite clips or I would never be able to finish these interviews! This artist is incredibly talented and also a great part of the DoInk community. I really loved her quote below...
September 2011
8 posts
This Week's Featured Artist - FunkMonkey777
We love this week’s featured artist’s style and his sense of humor. He is an Art major in College and that is really cool for so many of our aspiring art students here at DoInk! I loved his advice for other DoInk users, he really knows what he is talking about. Unfortunately right now I have to go and rethink my life and/or go find the “Home Movies” television series...
iAppsForTeachers DoInk iPad App Review
We were thrilled to see iAppsForTeachers review of the DoInk Animation & Drawing App for the iPad. iAppsForTeachers is a blog created by an educator named Jason, whose goal is to educate the educators, so they can better use iOS devices. Our review was amazingly positive and encouraging of our app, and even our website. We cannot thank them enough! We hope that you read this great blog tell...
This Week's Featured Artist - Sketchcat
This week’s featured artist has a great style. We really liked her 9/11 tribute recently, but we have liked everything else she has done too! How could you not like someone’s work who has Dr. Horrible as their avatar? I know, it’s just not possible. We also loved her back to school contest entry and her 4th of July/Canada day tribute was excellent as well. Obviously she has...
The Back to School Contest Winner LuvPatrickStump
Here is the riveting interview that our crack DoInk reporters did on LuvPatrickStump, the winner for our Back to School Contest. I think you will agree it really gets all the details of this artist and everything you ever wanted to know about her.
What is your favorite thing about going back to School? I really enjoy seeing all of my friends I didn’t get to hang out with this summer....
The Winner for the Back to School Contest!
We have a winner for our Back to School contest. Yeah for school! We loved all the wonderful animations and how they focused on the really important parts of school, like food and friends. Hey classes were highlighted in a lot of them too! Anyway, here is the amazing winning animation, runner up and the honorable mentions. These submissions were awesome, as always. Thank you so much to...
This Week's Featured Artist - NodjaSeries
This week’s featured artist has been around DoInk for a long time. First as ArdytheKoi and now as NodjaSeries. We love their talent as an artist and animator. Her Nodja series is amazingly well animated. You can see it as her spotlight clip below. She is a great community member, that inspires us with her talent! This week’s featured artist is NodjaSeries.
Tell us about...
This Week's Featured Artist - Peaky2
This week’s featured artist did an amazing version of Mickey Mouse recently, it is his spotlight clip and we wanted to learn more about him. He does incredibly detail accurate clips of his subjects! This week’s featured artist is Peaky2. Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like? For me a typical day is going on the computer, eating, and sleeping. XD How old were you...
DoInk iPad & iPad Creative
We love the iPad Creative blog. This is the second time they have featured the DoInk Animation & Drawing app in the last few months and we are so impressed with this creative and well written blog. We also love that they highlighted this amazing Thomas the Tank clip done by YouTube user known cryptically as ccddxxjj. iPad Creative also lets you link your amazing iPad Animations on this blog,...
August 2011
6 posts
This Week's Featured Artist - Lacrimosa
This week’s featured artist is fantastic. Amazing detail and style. Really cool and interesting work. We love that she is so involved in the DoInk community and is such a positive person here. She is also great about joining contests and giving feedback to other users. This week’s featured artist is Lacrimosa. Tell us about yourself, what is a typical day like? Well it...