The new version of Nextwave’s Comics Creator app with many new features is now up on Nokia OVI store. With new tools, this award-winning app now allows the user more control over the images. He can now manipulate colors, edit elements, and so on. Many new and varied backgrounds, characters, speech bubbles have also been added. Comics Creator 2.0 gives the user greater creative freedom. In short, he can now have more fun creating comics and sharing them with others.
Beginning 21st January 2011, Comics Creator will be featured on Nokia’s global highlights. More on that in another blog post.
Click here to view a short video on the new Comics Creator:
We are delighted to announce that Nextwave Multimedia’s ‘Comics Creator’ has won the first prize in ‘Nokia’s 2010 Calling All Innovators’ contest in the Entertainment Category. The winners and runner-ups were declared on 15 September, 2010 at the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010′ held in London.
‘Nokia’s Calling All Innovators’ is a global app development contest presenting developers with the task of creating apps that make a difference in people’s everyday lives, and enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios.
For its third consecutive year, Nokia challenged developers worldwide to create mobile apps in any of four categories: Life Improvement, Eco/Being Green, Productivity and Entertainment.
More than 1,500 developers from all over the world responded to Nokia’s challenges. In all, Nokia received over 7,700 submissions.
The winners and finalists were adjudged based on the following criteria: Quality/Functionality, Uniqueness, Novelty Value and Innovativeness, Usability/Creativity, and Commercial Viability/Market Potential.
All the shortlisted developers were invited to London for the ‘Nokia Developer Summit 2010.’ The grand event saw some big-name guest speakers, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
‘Comics Creator’ is an easy-to-use mobile application that allows you to create your own comics, cartoon strips, photo journals, etc — even if you’re not an artist. With this application, you can turn your ideas into a comic format that you like, and share it with your friends.
Creating a comic story, a cartoon strip or a photo journal can never get this simpler and easier. ‘Nextwave’s Mobile Comics Creator’ allows you to do them all and much more— even if you are not an artist!
With this easy-to-use application, you too can create your own comics/photo journals. No matter where you are, you can turn your ideas into a comic format that you like, and share it with the world.
Features include:
# A library of backgrounds, characters in various emotive states, dialog bubbles, etc., for you to choose from.
# You can share your creations through Email & MMS.
‘Nextwave’s Mobile Comics Creator’ will be the first of its kind to be available on Nokia’s OVI Store. The application will also be launched on Android Market Place and Samsung’s App Store, shortly.
