Unfortunately, I hit another snag when it came to publishing it. Thankfully, things were much faster the second time around and I was able to redo my animation a lot quicker. The file was clearly saved correctly on my desktop in the right format, but the Flip Boom Doodle software just wasn't opening it. AAARRRGGGHH! I was very disappointed that I had done all of this work and it was gone.

I could get this to move and I finished my video.almost two hours later! Unfortunately, when I came back to the program after eating dinner, prepared to upload it to Facebook, the program said that my file wasn't valid and wouldn't open it. I had nothing but issues with this program and once I finally accepted the fact that I couldn't seem to make a solid red heart move, I went with an outline of a heart. This meant that I had to draw the heart myself and then figure out how to make just the heart move for my animation. This definitely led me in the right direction and I was moving along fairly fine with my daughter sitting on my lap telling me what to create, until I discovered that there wasn't a heart of any kind in the icon catalog of the Flip Boom Doodle software. I couldn't seem to find a set of well-written instructions anywhere, but I did find a video on the Toon Boom site which showed how to make a video of an animated lamb jumping over a hand-drawn bush. The winner will be announced on February 15th, 2012.ĭownloading the software was easy enough, but once I opened it, I was kind of dumbfounded as to what to do.

Entries will be submitted for public voting (February 10 – February 14 2010).

When you are ready – go back to contest page on Toon Boom’s Facebook or Toon Boom’s website and upload the video (Note: Although Flip Boom Doodle can publish videos to Facebook or YouTube from the software interface, for this contest you MUST follow the instructions described above).

Click HERE to download your free version of Flip Boom Doodle software to create your animated heart for Valentine’s Day Contest.

Submit your information to enter the competition.

In honor of Valentine's Day, Toon Boom is asking for your animation to be centered around an animated Valentine's Day heart.

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