Video: Winners of the FX studio app for the Nokia N8

Framestore announced the winners of the FX studio app(Reminder). The 3 best ideas are the Magnet Man(1st), Alien Tripod(2nd), and Raining Goo(3rd). Here’s a video about some of the ideas that were submitted for the competition. Magnet Man is at 0:13, Raining Goo is at 0:18, and the Alien Tripod at 0:19.

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Note that these effects are made by the same team who worked on movies like Avatar, Prince of Persia, Clash of Titans, Sherlock Holmes, and more. If you wanna know more info about this app I recommend checking out their facebook . Personally I think this app will be very entertaining and fun, with this type of camera it’s should be amazing.

via: thenokiablog

Video: FX studio, an App for the Nokia N8

Framestore just released five new videos about FX studio. FX studio is a visual effect app that allow you to add special effects to your video clips.

Some of these effect includes a headbanging penguin, a ghost, a canon effect, an alien tentacle, a UFO, a zombie arm, a meteor, a laser gun, an explosion and an interdimensional portal. You can also submit your idea via this animation competition, the best idea will be integrated into the FX studio app.

Here’s an introduction to the FX studio app:

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How the app works:

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The making of Ghost:

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The Nokia N8’s camera and this app makes a good combination for entertaining video clips. Furthermore, the N8 isn’t out yet,so it should give plenty of time for Framestore to makes a bunch of other effects.

via: thenokiablog

Video: New theme effects for your Nokia N97!

Update: Correct video embedded

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A few users had been disappointed with the lack of decent theme effects on their N97. They’ve seen the demo video, and a few early hands on of preproduction devices which implied that end users would be getting something similar too.

Instead, the theme effects are all but none existant. The only nice looking animation is the swipe (in homescreen).

Transitions from portrait to landscape are dull and overall theme effects aren’t worth the slight slow down in performance when you turn it on (Settings>Themes>Theme Effect>On/Off)

Over at the Symbian Blog, Vaibhav Sharma has put together both a tutorial and a demo video of some really nifty theme animations for your N97.

• Swipe transitions (not just for homescreen)
• Actual visual screen rotation animation (landscape to portrait etc)
• Zoom style transitions
• Slide up menu animation (same as how options/call dialler shows up)

Fingers crossed the next firmware update brings something close  for N97 users.

Whilst you wait, in the mean time, you can check out the instructions on how to get this on your N97, at theSymbianBlog.

Caution:

• This will take some time to install. It’s not just an app or a one click update
• This may have stability issues and may slow down your N97
• Try at your own risk.

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