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Animated Stories and Graphic Arts

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The Survey Legend Superhero

We see an incredible amount of quality artwork and animation here at Tumult HQ, and we really ought to share more. Today we’re featuring four illustrated & animated stories available on the iBooks store, an animated product guide, and a quick story starring a crazy bunny.

We’ll start with an animation created by Survey Legend, a Swedish team that produces survey software. Their transitions and play with perspective looks great on their site. You can watch a video of this animation below:

The above video was exported from Tumult Hype (read how to export a video).  Also, make sure to visit their Webby-deserving 404 page:

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We’ll be posting a tutorial on controlling animations with scroll actions by the Survey Legend team soon!

Now for the kids: check out Noa and the Ladybird, filled with touchable objects, sounds, and interactive pages. We interviewed the creators of this story in the pages of this blog before: read our interview with the charming Somoiso team to see how they built, animated, narrated, and fine-tuned the water-colored world around Noa. Download a sample, or view it on the App Store.Noa's Stars Initial Screen

Somoiso is currently putting the finishing touches on their latest story, “Noa & The Magic Pond.”

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The Slightly Annoying Elephant” by David Walliams & illustrated by Tony Ross, is a unique book for a number of reasons:

  • The entire book is built within an HTML widget within an iBook.
  • Animations produced with Tumult Hype, with additional JavaScript techniques for extra functionality
  • Bookry, the code-slingers behind the book, added interesting features like adding photos to the wall within the actual story, and recording the reader’s name (see screenshot below).

Download on iTunes.

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Next up, feast your eyes on Justices, a series drawn by Eric Esculier and produced by Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot.  Download this free book from the App Store (French). This book was created with the help of the Baker framework, a great kickstarter for book developers to get their apps in the App Store either as a regular app, or as a Newstand-enabled app. Check out our Baker Framework tutorial here.

 

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Justices was produced for Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot’s “Nemo Magazine” which coincidentally is working on a crowd-funded comic book series you should check out:

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Next, the “Damned Meanders” by Tom McGrane is a smash/bang/magic comic book with intense animations and a great vintage style of speech bubbles. View a sample, or download from the iBooks store.

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And last but not least, Spooky the Scary Rabbit, created by Hayashi Shingo. I’m excited to see where this goes. Watch more wacky adventures here.

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We hope you enjoyed this whirlwind tour of quality animations!

If you’re working on something you’d like to share, we want to see it. Reach out on Twitter (we’re @hypeapp) or share on our forums.