App of the Week 26/10/10 - Granimator™


Orchard creative consultant Rick's weekly iPhone / iPad app of choice.

Granimator



I've been a bit disapointed with the standard and number of iPad apps that actually let you create stuff. I downloaded a few of the numerous drawing apps, but I found all of them a bit difficult to use and (like the schoolboy I really am) ended up drawing a varied selection of male genitalia and then deleting them.

Then I went to Northern Digitals' BLAB and saw Mills of ustwo™ talking about their "Granimator™" app: It's an interesting concept: They ask Illustrators (and shit hot illustrators at that) to create different "packs" for them. Each pack has it's own palette of backgrounds, colour styles, graphics and sounds and basically you use the various parts of the pack to create a customised wallpaper. You can use the wallpaper on your iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch add to Facebook, Tweet it or add it to Flikr or the extensive "Grallery" on the Granimator site.

The cool thing about it is that there are loads of different artist packs, all refreshingly different and it doesn't really take much creative dexterity to design great looking wallpapers. The app itself is free - but some of the packs are chargeable. It's also available for iPhone - but to experience the things you can do properly, I think you need to try it on an iPad.

Here's one I put together using the "Day and Night" pack:




And here's a couple I borrowed from the Granimator site: 





You can see hundreds more on the Granimator site

Rick Turner


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