"First off, thank you so much for creating such a great product. I've been using iStopMotion quite a lot lately: my most recent example is a compilation of time lapse shots of Nishi Shinjuku (as in Tokyo, Japan)." Check out the clip on her blog. There are quite a number of interesting things happening in that time lapse. The TV can be seen in a reflection of the window and there is a nice side by side of a Japanese office and the road beside it. Very cool.

For those of you wanting to add nice footage to their movies that you can't shoot yourself: Artbeats is a recommendation by Matthieu, one of the french localisers of iStopMotion. The guys at skytimelapse.com are actually using the timelapse feature of iStopMotion to create some of their stock footage.

FotoMagico 1.5.1b1 is now available. Introduces support for iLife '06 and fixes some issues recently discovered in FotoMagico 1.5. More Information...

"My name is Dominic Prévost, I have bought your iVeZeen Software about a year ago, I had a scholarship and was lucky enough to complete my graphic design studies in Paris. In order not to miss my friends and family and in order to keep contact with all of them, I used my iSight to make little movies about my trip, my life... This project grew bigger and became my own little reality show "Dominic se fait Paris" and it was all made thanks to your wonderful software! THANKS!"

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I dropped my iSight in december and it wouldn't turn on again, so I thought I'd go ahead and take it apart and post a picture of all the parts on our weblog before I throw it away. Here it is. In the center, there is the imaging chip which is quite a big chip. The one in the new iMac and MacBook Pro must be smaller to fit. The whole thing is a marvel to look at. Very cleverly put together. I think it is a good camera for the price. Made in Thailand, of course, as it is very labour intensive to assemble, I assume.

Update Jan. 24th: One seminar has been moved from Thursday to Tuesday.

German Apple Distinguished Educator Michael Fromm hosts 2 seminars with iStopMotion for Apple at the didacta 2006 in Hannover, Germany (Feb. 20th to Feb. 24th): "Animationsfilm im Unterricht".

• Monday, Feb. 20th - 11:00-12:00 Room 214
• Tuesday, Feb. 21st - 11:00-12:00 Room 214

You need to register to participate.

Jed Gibbs MA, animation lecturer at Southampton City College has this to say about the new Flipbook printing in iStopMotion 1.9: "This is fantastic - our students must submit written evaluations and screenshots of their work - the flipbook option makes this so much quicker. Thank you!" Our pleasure, Jed!

How cool is this? Made by Pierre Films (Cody), Schlaeps (Jonathan Schlaepfer) and KG (James). Thanks to Michael Fromm for pointing it out. Subscribe here.