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Twinkle Twinkle – A New and Noteworthy iPad and iPhone Book App
Click Here to view Twinkle Twinkle in the iTunes App Store Twinkle Twinkle, an iOS universal app, has earned a place in Apple’s New & Noteworthy Books categories for both iPad and iPhone. The app brings together an interactive children’s book, music videos and a counting exercise around the theme of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It is a co-production between Super Simple Learning, an educational company based in Tokyo, Japan, and See Here Studios LLC, a rich media digital book developer in Berkeley, California. The app...
read moreThe Making of Super Simple Learning’s “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”: An Interview with Nathan Dillow of Fuzz Animation
We’re excited to announce that the iPad/iPhone storybook app “Twinkle Twinkle” is now available in the App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id447293430! Based on the much-loved “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” Youtube video by Super Simple Learning and Fuzz Animation, See Here Studios collaborated closely with both companies to develop the app, which includes an interactive children’s book, a counting game and two versions of the original animated video. We hope you enjoy the results! We had so much fun...
read moreThe making of an animated children’s book: The Three Pandas
“The Three Pandas” is the third animated interactive children’s book published by See Here Studios. As a digital publishing company, we wished to add some classic folktales to our book line – but we also wanted to tell the fables with a creative twist. “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” stood out as a favorite story, and during a brainstorming session we suddenly came up with the idea of substituting panda bears for brown bears, and transplanting the tale to the bamboo forests of China. From this initial idea, we gradually brought...
read moreThe Story of iPads, Special Needs Children and A4CWSN
We’re happy to participate in A4CWSN’s Blog Hop! Please check out the other Blog Hop articles listed at the end of this post. So much has already been covered in the previous Blog Hop posts, it’s hard to say something new….so we’ll just add another voice to the circle from a developer’s, artist’s & educator’s perspective. Stepping back a bit…since the launch of the iPad on April 1, 2010 of last year, it has been remarkable to see the impact of the iPad on education for children, ESPECIALLY children with special needs....
read moreThe Path of an Independent Animator: A Collection of Creative Approaches
This blog post is geared towards students of animation who are interested in developing their own independent projects. I’ll be giving a free talk on this topic at San Francisco State’s downtown campus on Saturday July 9, at 11am. This talk is part of an excellent free animation lecture series at SF State this summer – CLICK HERE to read more about the lecture series. This is a very broad topic, and in this post I’d like to simply give a sense of the spectrum of approaches and look at case studies of actual independent animators’...
read moreGuest Blog for Moms With Apps: Resources for Children’s Book Authors & Illustrators
Since starting See Here Studios two years ago, both myself and studio co-founder Wallace E. Keller have often been approached with questions about apps from fellow artists and writers. A few months ago, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) asked if we could put together a presentation on this same topic for their summer workshop. This article is a compilation of our learning over the last two years, and a “test run” for our SCBWI workshop on July 14 in San Rafael,...
read more“Twinkle Twinkle” Virtual Launch Party & iTunes Gift Certificate Raffle!
Our newest storybook app “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” a collaboration with Super Simple Learning, is now available in the App Store! To celebrate, we’re raffling off TWO $20 iTunes Gift Certificates! The launch party/raffle starts NOW and will end on Sunday July 17 at 4pm P.S.T. We’ll randomly pick two lucky winners at 5pm P.S.T. Sunday July 17, and announce them here and on our Facebook/Twitter pages. To enter the raffle, tell us “What Tickles You?” - This could be something – anything...
read moreThis Father’s Day, celebrate storytime with Dad!
This Father’s Day, we’re celebrating children’s literacy with a special SALE honoring “Storytime with Dad.” For Father’s Day Weekend only, starting Friday June 17, we’ll be placing our award-winning iPad/iPhone interactive children’s books on sale – The Wrong Side of the Bed for just $1.99 (regular price $2.99) and The Three Pandas for only $.99 (down from $3.99)! These special sale prices will only last through Sunday June 19, so be sure to grab a copy of these amazing books at these...
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