Today is Feature Friday so we are showcasing how you can use just one hand image to make a straw blowing type of scribe.

See the tutorial here on how to do it here…

FREE DOWNLOADS…

Download the straw hand here.

Download the svgs we used to make the scribe here.

Here’s the finished scribe here…

We have had a large number of requests for people to either create assets or whole VideoScribe videos for them.

Although all users love the app some want the video produced professionally rather than creating their own scribes – sometimes this is because they want something extra-ordinary, sometimes the artwork is very bespoke but often they just want someone to arrange the voiceover, music and scribe in a polished way where they don’t have to do any work. We have other users who want a series of illustrators in a particular style produced for them…

So we’re launching a market place at the end of the month. This will put both Video Producers and Illustrators in touch with clients who want a scribe video.

We’re making the service free to users, but charging a small fee to suppliers to be listed.

If you’re interested in being listed please complete the form at

http://www.sparkol.com/marketplace 

- those listed when this service launches will guarantee maximum exposure!

Coming to the desktop version for Pro users are two new character libraries…

One of the things I like about these libraries is that they help show some of the possibilites of VideoScribe – with both “bitmap” (non-vector) textured fills and a colouring-in style used.  These effects are very easy to do in Illustrator and Inkscape when creating artwork for VideoScribe.

We’ve just released version 1.2.4 and to go with it, if your a Sparkol Pro user you can import a pack of hands. Here’s a quick how to video…

You will need to make sure you have downloaded the latest VideoScribe Desktop from
http://www.sparkol.com/downloadVideoScribePC.php
or
http://www.sparkol.com/downloadVideoScribeMac.php

Then download the hand pack here…
http://www.sparkol.com/downloadHandPack1.php

You’ll need to save this file locally, then run the latest version of VideoScribe, click on settings, then Hands, then Import Hands.  You can then select this file and 10 new hands will be added to your VideoScribe install.

When you download the file you will need to make sure it saves as handpack1.vshand. Some computers will want to save it as handpack1.zip, if this is the case simply change the file name to handpack1.vshand and this will now save correctly.

Please note that you may need to ‘show hidden file extensions’ in the file options if it doesn’t say ‘zip’ or any other file extension on the end, to access the new save options.

As always, any problems, just get in touch support@sparkol.com

So in the release today (version 1.2) one of the new things you’ll find is that we’ve rewritten the Bitmap import so that it traces about 3,000 times faster and about 1,000 better!  Take a look at this video

With the ‘use your own hand’ feature coming in just a few days, I just created this scribe in just a few short mins & published to YouTube.  Imagine the possibilities…

Use any old hand in VideoScribe – being released later this week, exclusively on the Sparkol Pro VideoScribe Desktop, an update that will let you draw your scribe with anything – a floating pen, your hand, a models hand, maybe your childs hand?  I think we should offer a prize for the most create thing used to draw your scribe…

(This is my hand by the way)