Archive for the ‘Minivid’ Category
Here’s a peek at a campaign MTV recently built for the new JBL-Roxy line of headphones. It uses Minivid to power a UGC contest and is backed by a spread of great prizes from JBL and Roxy.
Minivid made an appearance on the Rachael Ray show this holiday season as a fun web technology to help beat the winter blues.
Heather Cabot, Yahoo! Web Life Editor: “This actually allows you to animate your own show, so you basically get to create your own cartoon,” she says. “You can add your own face, you can add captions, you can add music, you don’t need to be a techie to do this, anyone can do this. It’s free!”
Minivid now has the seal of approval from both the MPAA and a top daytime talkshow. Sounds like time to start your campaign 
Come Visit London
Visit London is running an cool promotion right now — make a Minivid (of your dream vacation) and win a trip through the heart of London’s music scene (also available in Spanish and French). Even if you don’t win the trip, take the opportunity to share some memories from a recent vacation you took to the big city.
A couple other cool campaigns will be launching soon and we’ve got a big new product announcement coming. Stay tuned.
Animate your ancestors
A quick note to highlight a cool Minivid campaign for Sony’s Year One. If you’ve ever dreamt of saying something witty to Jack Black while in ancient Rome, then today is your day!
Custom faces. A long requested feature for Minivid, and it’s about time we brought it to you. With just a couple of clicks, you can now use your webcam or a photo to place you and your friends’ faces on our many Minivid actors. And because we figured Rob wouldn’t mind a few more days of sleep deprivation, Minivid is now integrated with SmugMug to let you have your animation take place anywhere you desire. Like Paris.
And yes. Laurence really is that heroic. Go to http://www.fuzzwich.com and let’s see some new faces.
Minivid gets Emotional
Yesterday afternoon our extremely handsome and talented Art Department sauntered into the main work area, stroking his mustache and grinning widely at the rest of the team.
After striking a pose reminiscent of the great sculptural works of antiquity, he announced that all human-type actors in the Minivid library now have a set of facial expressions which can be applied to them.
These new actions can be accessed via the “Faces” tab at the top of an actor’s actions list (see fig 1.1 below).
Now you can make them laugh and cry at your leisure! Toying with someone’s emotions has never been easier. We can’t wait to see what our users make with this addition.
Enjoy!
::End of Transmission from Team Habit Global HQ::
Oh Boy!
So for you boys and girls out there that haven’t quite found your way through the magic door into animation land, Webmonkey.com has put up a rockin’ tutorial that covers the basics of Minivid. If you’re still stuck at the threshold – interested in animating, but not sure if you can – this tutorial shows you exactly how easy it is to make a cool animation.
Thanks Webmonkey! We love you guys as much as we love ice cream. And, oh man, do we love ice cream.
Until next time, remember kids: coffee grinders are not for putting in microwaves. (that’s what bad, 80’s hair metal CDs are for)
Sometimes you just gotta dance. Or give flowers. Or pull out a huge automatic weapon and rabidly fire away. Thanks to the hard work of Rob (programming) and Laurence (art), Minivid just got a really exciting upgrade. When speech bubbles and movement just aren’t enough to express your creativity, the Minivid cast now has a plethora of animated actions (get it?) to really liven up your animation. Check out the action centric Minivid below.
Actions work very similarly to speech bubbles. Select an actor, press the 
button, and choose the most enticing action. Just like that, the action is added to your Minivid and will playback right on cue!
We’re really excited about the options actions bring to the Minivid table. And even more so, as always, we are really looking forward to the creativity and genius of the Fuzzwich community to take actions in all kinds of unique directions.
So stop reading and take action!
Don’t leave without some satisfACTION!
Be sure to create a thermonuclear reACTION
Ok. I’m done. Really.
Have fun!
The Best of Minivid
This last week saw the re-debut of Minivid. As the creativity slowly starts rolling in, Minivid would like to highlight the past week’s best
Loopt by LukeXI
We don’t need no water by Crazy
Disturbance Report by Pug
We moved. Again. This time we find ourselves in the Mission area of San Francisco. The move was a little more comfortable than the last, probably more long term than Palo Alto, and thankfully did not involve any hotel stays. We even have more than one room for our “office space” and a futon in the kitchen to boot! You can see Chris and Laurence working hard in our new “office space” below. It’s quite spacious no?
But here at Fuzzwich, just changing our location wasn’t enough.
We decided to push out a new fuzzwich.com site. Why change the site, yet again? Well, to be honest, because we have learned so much. On an regular basis, we looked at our site and commented we could do better. So we did. The new site has Fuzzwich firsts, such as navigation. And consistency. And our favorite, expandibility. Those “features” are only partially listed in jest, as our previous sites have lacked all three. It has been suprisingly difficult to design a site stylistically unique, as Fuzzwich should be, yet capable of extension as Fuzzwich evolves. We believe this site has great potential to really grow with Fuzzwich rather than become an obstacle to adding new products and features.
Oh and Minivid was left behind. You might have noticed the new and improved Minivid, which now runs on and benefits from a brand new Fuzzwich animation platform. It boasts a new set of completely awesome characters and music, a much larger animation area, and a more clean and polished interface. We will be migrating over all the old user accounts and content in the near future. Check out the sweet new widescreen and characters!
If all these changes weren’t enough, we have also had a personnel change. Habit is incredibly happy to welcome Chris Patton to the team as our first non-founding member. Chris has taken the leap from being one of our largest supporters from the “early days of Fuzzwich ” (in quotes because I don’t think we can quite yet claim a time of early days) to working right next to me on a daily basis. Chris brings a influx of incredible ideas and will be focusing on developing the community and business. Feel free to give him a welcome call at 555-555-8091. He’ll appreciate it. I promise.
Till next time, animate.
