Apps

From time to time, I make apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and interactive books in ePUB for the iBooks Store. Mostly, my focus is on design, but I’m happy to help with the odd bit of implementation.

Designed and implemented PiP Kit, a product for advanced picture-in-picture effects

I designed funwithstuff PiP Kit, for sale through FxFactory, including many custom shapes and animation. The plug-in is designed for Final Cut Pro editors to use in any kinds of videos, and is especially useful in portrait videos where split screens are a great way to manage the limited aspect ratio.

Designed and implemented Emojisplosion, a way to use emojis as particle effects

I created funwithstuff Emojisplosion as a way to let people add fountains, fireworks and firehoses of fun icons to their videos. It's for Final Cut Pro, and probably more useful for social media videos than serious ones.

Designed and implemented Spatial Kit, a tool for stereoscopic video production in Final Cut Pro

I created funwithstuff Spatial Kit as a way to allow Final Cut Pro editors to align multiple different angles of stereoscopic footage. It's currently the only tool for FCP that does this, and I've used it myself on many videos for the Apple Vision Pro already. Learn a lot more about stereoscopic production at my dedicated site, stereoscopic.mov.

Designed and implemented Stereoscope, a stereograph viewing app for Apple Vision Pro

The app Stereoscope, live on the Apple Vision Pro App Store now, is a free way to view stereoscopic images in true 3D. You can find out more at the page on my dedicated site, or head straight to the App Store page.

Designed and implemented Keyframe Toolbox, for advanced keyframe animation in FCP

I designed and continue to update Keyframe Toolbox, the most advanced keyframe animation plug-in for Final Cut Pro. It's available on the Mac App Store, though there's much more information on its dedicated site.

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Created with assistance from Chris Hocking.

Designed and implemented ScriptStar, text-based editing and transcription for FCP

I designed and co-implemented ScriptStar, a tool to enable text-based editing in Final Cut Pro. Find out more at the ScriptStar site here.

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Written, illustrated, animated and voiced my own children’s books for iPad and iPhone

Lefty and Ron was one of the first iPhone apps made with Flash, and was on the App Store before Flash was banned. I've since re-jigged it for iPad and for the iBooks Store with more animation and higher resolution, and it remains popular today. I also wrote, illustrated and voiced What Was That Noise? (free in Australian and New Zealand) and the visual picture dictionary Alphazed for iPad, though these are no longer available.

 

Lefty and RonWhat Was That Noise?Alphazed, a picture dictionary

Designed and implemented Roughly, an add-on for the Apple Watch

Roughly is an add-on for the Apple Watch called a "complication" which adds a feature to the watch face. This one tells you the approximate time to the nearest five minutes, which is mostly just for fun but which does have some practical uses. You can read more about it at my blog.

 

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Created original screen savers using Quartz Composer

A visual programming language, Quartz Composer is a fantastic way to create original interactive, generative art, and I've created many pieces you can download and then put into a Mac's Screen Savers folder. Looking forward to the next projected art festival to show them off.

a still from my Quartz Composer artwork

Created a TV game show, including the electronic game board, which went to pilot stage

My art project Identikit was eventually reborn as a 3D project and taught to schoolkids in a workshop. The idea was then taken further, and broadened out to include more than just pictures, to create a game show that went to pilot. Perhaps someday it'll be picked up? (If you'd like to see the video, you'll have to ask me, though.)