Animation Inches onto DSiWare

Flat Black Films have announced that their DSiWare animation studio, Inchworm Animation, will be released on April 25th in North America for 500 Nintendo Points. No European release date has been announced as yet.

Flat Black Films are an animation company specialising in rotoscoping, though they also develop software, film shorts and computer graphics. Inchworm Animation has been in development for five years and looks to provide a highly impressive animation suite for DSi. Would-be artists can play with transparency, layers, stop-motion, rotoscoping and onion skin amongst other things, all in the palm of their hand.

- Create multi-layer flipbook animations
- Variable-thickness antialiased brushes
- Use the camera for stop-motion & time lapse
- Rotoscope by tracing on top of camera footage
- Different layers can have different frame lengths
- Circles, rectangles and polygons (with borders)
- Translucent color and pattern fill
- Custom palette storage
- Pattern editor
- Individual animation frame timing
- Onionskin
- Six levels of zoom
- Export to SD card (SWF, BMP sequence)
- Work on images up to 9999 x 9999 pixels
- Cut/paste to clipboard
- Rescale clipboard images
- Flip and 90-degree rotate
- Undo

A series of animations made using the application can be found on the Inchworm Animation website here. We've also added some screens to our media album below, and will keep you informed of any European release details.

Does this software interest you? Can it compete with Nintendo's own Flipnote Studio?