"Art and animation teachers, take note of this well designed and powerful animation package that offers frame-by-frame drawing tools. Based on the software that is used by Cartoon Network, this adaptation for kids was made in Canada, and has simplified menus designed to make creating cartoon easy. The menus are cleanly designed, making it easy to cut, paste, fill, and freely sketch your ideas – and see them combined into a moving stream of images..." [Read entire review]
– Warren Buckleitner, Children's Technology Review
"We found Flip Boom's interface to be a successful design from top to bottom. It maintains the layout of a children's drawing kit, but it offers a sophisticated set of tools for creating animated digital video. Flip Boom also saves animations that can be viewed with an iPod, with Windows Media Player, or online. Its online tutorial offers a step-by-step guide to the process that gave us all the understanding we needed to create a cartoon..." [Read entire review]
- Cnet.com
"As animation programs go, it doesn't get much simpler than this-which is why Flip Boom is the perfect little draw-and-animate software for kids who'd like to see their doodling come alive. Designed for beginners, it includes mostly the basic tools that all draw-and-paint programs have-the brush for creating images (brush size is changeable), paint bucket for coloring in spaces, a seven-color palette, an eraser, plus editing commands such as cut, copy, paste and undo. Add to that a few necessary animation tools--a frame sequencer and playback, speed selector and looping controls--and you got all that's needed to create the simplest animations…" [Read entire review]
– Don Oldenburg, Parent’s Choice
