HawksBed Studios

Cartoon Studio 1.6 is now available in the App Store:

✔ iPad Retina support
✔ Cartoons are now rendered using the full resolution on all Retina devices
✔ Fixed issues with posting to Twitter (now uses built in iOS Twitter support)
✔ Post directly to Facebook (instead of the method via email)
✔ Copy your cartoons to the clipboard for pasting into another app
✔ Fixed animation issues with cover flow selection and deleting cells.
✔ Can easily restore previous purchases
✔ Removed ads from Free version
✔ Free version can now delete, insert and rename/change art packs
✔ Now requires iOS5.1 or higher

Cartoon Studio Pro

Cartoon Studio Free

Cartoon Studio 1.5 is now live on the App Store. This finally provides the most requested feature of Cartoon Studio, being able to create your own characters from your own photos, as well as other tweaks and enhancements. Here’s the full list of what’s new:

New Features:
✔ You can now create characters with your own photos
✔ You can now search the web from within the app for images to import as backgrounds or characters
✔ When adding your own photos for backgrounds or characters you can now adjust (resize and position) them first
✔ Game Centre Achievements (iOS 4.0 and higher only)

Enhancements:
✔ You can now change art styles when editing a cartoon
✔ When exporting cartoon images to email or device photos, they can be automatically split up into separate images containing 1-10 cells (configured in settings)
✔ Improved UI performance in twitter #CartoonStudio feed
✔ Improved inbuilt web browser (used in twitter feed, web image search)

Cartoon Studio Pro

Cartoon Studio Free

While we wait for Cartoon Studio 1.5 (packed with awesome new features) to be approved by Apple, we have released a new art pack “Meme Faces” which is FREE for everyone! You may recognise these faces from around the internet and with this pack its easier than ever to create hilarious cartoons to share with your friends with Cartoon Studio.

Cartoon Studio version 1.2.5 is now available in the App Store.  A small update with some minor, but welcome additions:

• Speech Bubbles can now have the arrows on top, to allow for more flexible positioning.
• You can now access a #CartoonStudio twitter search from the main menu to view other people’s cartoons right from within the app.

Cartoon Studio version 1.2 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. This brings improved speech bubbles, background uploading on supported iOS4 devices, retina display support and more.

• Supports iPhone 4 retina display with new icons and speech bubbles (the published cartoon is still currently 420pixels however)
• Uploading cartoons to twitter or your blog can continue in the background on devices that support multitasking (3GS, iph4 with iOS4).
• Improved speech bubble keyboard handling with smart Auto Capitalisation (only on a new sentence, not a new line)
• Fixed an issue that could occur when using Own Photos, resulting in the message “Your Art Packs are corrupt” when they weren’t.
• Fixed an issue where viewing a cartoon could start half way down, or at the end of the cartoon.
• Watermark is on by default, but can be turned off in settings.
• Sending feedback in the app now adds version, device type, iOS version and memory capacity to the email to assist with issue diagnostics.
• iPad: will now auto generate previews when changing cartoons
• iPad: fixed an issue where the menu button in portrait mode on the edit screen would vanish
• iPad: fixed some issues that could cause crashes
• Other misc small tweaks and fixes

Cartoon Studio version 1.1 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. What are you waiting for!?

• Universal App with native iPad support
• Supports fast-app-switching on iOS 4
• Use your own photos (camera or existing photos) as cartoon backgrounds
• View the publishing history of cartoons
• Twitter improvements; uses oAuth and posts  ’via Cartoon Studio’ with the hashtag #CartoonStudio
• Added a ‘Flip’ button to Move & Resize
• Fixed intermittent crash that could occur after posting to twitter or your blog.
• Added a ‘send us feedback’ option in the about section of settings
• Performance & UI improvements

While we all wait for Apple to approve Cartoon Studio v1.1, here’s a video demo of the iPhone version to wet your appetite:

We’re pleased to announce that Cartoon Studio 1.1 has now been submitted to Apple for their approval. This is a huge update, making Cartoon Studio a Universal Application with full and native iPad support.

In addition, on all devices you can now use your own photos as backgrounds for cartoons.

Those are the big two, but there are lots of little things too. Here are all the changes since version 1.0 which was released last month:

• Universal App with native iPad support
• Supports fast-app-switching on iOS 4
• Use your own photos (camera or existing photos) as cartoon backgrounds
• View the publishing history of cartoons
• Twitter improvements; uses oAuth and posts  ’via Cartoon Studio’ with the hashtag #CartoonStudio
• Added a ‘Flip’ button to Move & Resize
• Fixed intermittent crash that could occur after posting to twitter or your blog.
• Added a ‘send us feedback’ option in the about section of settings
• Performance & UI improvements

Cartoon Studio 1.1 should be available in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

We are very pleased to announce that Cartoon Studio has been approved by Apple and is now live in the App Store for iPhone & iPod Touches. As a very special introductory offer, for a limited time, when you purchase Cartoon Studio Pro (from within the App) you will also get the Pythonesque art pack for free (normally US$0.99)! Check out Cartoon Studio for free and take advantage of our limited time offer while it lasts!

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