#tamaji

[yippieitsarvensart]

Tamaji/Puddingballs

My beloved cross ship. my gorjuse girls who I love so much.

[maigeiko]

Bye bye 2020! Sum up of debuts, part 3 of 3 Ichizuru いち鶴 and Orizuru おり鶴 from Osaka-Nanchi Kikuna 喜久奈 from Nagasaki and Kirin 喜りん from Gifu Yumikoma ゆみ駒 and Kurumi くるみ from Ureshino Onsen Rie 梨江 from Niigata and Misuzu 美すず from Tokushima Wanoka わ乃桂 from Fukuoka and Tamaji 多満次  from Gifu ════════════════════════════════════════════ Sources: Ichizuru, Orizuru, Kikuna (video screenshot), Kirin, Yumikoma, Kurumi, Rie, Misuzu, Wanoka, Tamaji * I didn’t know of Tamaji until I saw the picture of her on fukumi_geimaiko_’s insta acc. today, but she actually debuted last year in February already!

[frametales-blog]

Empowering people to tell their stories

Could be a baseline for Apple... Basically, it reflects the same idea Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had when creating their first Macintosh and, later on, the iMac. I used this subject line because it perfectly describes what the guys from Tamaji are doing: they created an iPad application for storyboarding. I hear you thinking "Nice, but nothing special, there are plenty of similar apps". My response to you: yes, there are. But this one is more special. The user doesn't need to have any drawing skills. An app like Sketchpad is great, but you need to be an artist if you want to get out the most of it. Without saying I'm an artist, I'm luckily gifted with some drawing talents and even for me paper or canvas is still preferable above a tablet screen. (However, Belgian artist Kamagurka created a bunch of works with his iPad for the Museum of Contemporary Art of the City of Amsterdam.) So even for experienced illustrators, I think the Tamaji app could be a nice tool to realize your story ideas. I tested the app and it's really user friendly. From creating your storyboard to the set-up of a scene, it's only some finger moves away. Tamaji offers a library of drawings the user can use to represent characters, props, backgrounds, furniture... Really great is that you can determine the position of a character. First you select a man or a woman, next you choose a clothing style and then you can position the character in relation to the audience's point of view. Compare it to a wooden drawing model. Gestures that are hard to draw (like sitting at a desk) are all present. And if you cannot find the right drawing, you can still upload your own or ask Tamaji to do it for you (against a certain cost of course, but anyhow...) Although Storyboards offers some Notes in the properties of each scene, the available space for dialogues and descriptive actions could have been better. Also, it's a pity that Storyboard cannot be linked or exported to a Celtx or Final Draft account. If that was the case, it would really become a killer app! The Storyboards basic app is free, for the Premium version you pay 11,99 EUR (14,99 USD). The difference is mainly in the amount of library items. My conclusion: if you are into screenwriting and need to visualize your concept or screenplay, go for the Storyboards app. People who prefer drawing, can't use this app as a sketch pad. But they definitively gain time by using it to prepare the scenes they want to draw in detail afterwards.