Archive for June, 2012

Daytime Emmys Escapades

Monday, June 25th, 2012

Last week, four members of the CloudKid team ventured to the City of Angels for the Daytime Emmy Awards.  It was our third nomination in as many years for our work on Fizzy’s Lunch Lab.  While we didn’t win (again), our good friends and neighbors from WGBH took home the bling in our category.  A big congrats goes out to Dave Peth and the Design Squad team for a rad project that encourages kids to build stuff and share it online.

Overall, the night was a blast. Some highlights included: our friend Jack Ferraiolo winning his second Emmy for his writing on Wordgirl, Lunch Lab writer Ryan Raddatz taking home two Emmys for his writing on Wordgirl and The Ellen Show, as well as hanging out with Linda Simensky, Chris Bishop and a handful of the PBS Kids crew.

While it’s always nice to get recognized, it’s time to roll up the sleeves and dive back in.

 

Keyframe Caddy Update

Friday, June 8th, 2012

It’s been almost two years since we released (for free) our in-house Flash extension called Keyframe Caddy. Since its release, we’ve heard from many animators and Flash studios that they love our keyframe animation tool. Today we’re releasing version 1.1.0 for Flash CS3+. The most significant change is that we added a scroll-bar to the layout as well as fixed some pesky bugs. You can download here.

Movie Outing

Friday, June 8th, 2012

Right around this time last year, CloudKid embarked on its first annual movie outing. With 2012’s summer blockbusters rolling into theaters, we decided it was time for another trip to the cinema. Since we’re big fans of themes (and aliens), we landed on another alien-driven flick this year: Prometheus. Some CloudKids are super excited for the outing this afternoon, and others are just scared silly. Either way, we’re all just hoping the movie is half as good as this homespun trailer.