Flipnote Studio
released on Dec 24, 2008
Flipnote Studio is an application for the Nintendo DSi that can be downloaded at no cost from the Nintendo DSi Shop.
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I can't draw at all but even I can see how great this is for animation. Lots of old flipnotes have been posted to YouTube now, thankfully. Many fond memories making really terrible animations and sharing them with friends at school...
Fun drawing application.
Not a game, but an app that is still one of the best the DSiWare has to offer! I never used it for creating flipnotes since I am a horrible artist, but I mainly used it for Flipnote Hatena. Flipnote Hatena was my original YouTube before YouTube became my YouTube, lol! But can we get it back somehow?
animae
back when nintendo wasn't afraid to get silly
i miss hatena SO much you guys, flipnote is where i made so many of my fondest memories with my friends and where i surfed the web before social media really went mainstream...its an underrated cultural touchstone for nintendo fans that deserves a second (third?) chance on switch. if smash can have stage builder and splatoon can have drawings then the fans can have flipnote back
i miss hatena SO much you guys, flipnote is where i made so many of my fondest memories with my friends and where i surfed the web before social media really went mainstream...its an underrated cultural touchstone for nintendo fans that deserves a second (third?) chance on switch. if smash can have stage builder and splatoon can have drawings then the fans can have flipnote back
Didn't have this logged due to the fact that it's not technically a game per se but fuck it we ballin
I remember back in like 2009 I was a plucky kid on a camping trip with some other fellow plucky kids and one of them had a DSi. It was with that kid that I learned about the many features of the DSi, like the goofy sound and photo apps, the ability to use a rainbow pen in pictochat, and most importantly, the ability to make crude animations of stickmen getting brutally mutilated through a mysterious orange app called flipnote studio. After that camping trip, I knew that I had to start saving up for a DSi.
Flipnote Studio is a flipbook animation program. It's featureset is light enough to the point where anyone can figure out how to use it, yet still offers enough features for talented artists and animators to make their work shine. The game used to offer an online service where users could upload and share their own animations as well as view and download other users animations, and that combined with the apps free price tag essentially meant everyone with a DSi at the time had access to this entire online subculture of music videos, fan re-edits, stick fights, and more.
It was basically my first exposure to social media back in the day. I (thankfully) wasn't allowed to go on the greater parts of the internet or youtube back then outside of like randomly researching old video games, so through flipnote studio I was able to keep up with all sorts of internet inside jokes and memes, even if most of them were exclusive to the flipnote studio subculture. It was pretty much a mixture of youtube and newgrounds except mostly populated by kids and nintendo fans, shit was crazy.
I was certainly a stick figure guy, watching stuff like gizmos many goofy stick figure cartoons, or getting immersed in BosS' kingdom-hearts-ass shonen anime-core serial dramas, which I always adored the aesthetic of despite not really understanding their influences back in the day. And of course, let's not forget the legendary stick fight animation by 100%, that shit was copied and pasted NONSTOP with all sorts of fan edits and song changes throughout all the years I used hatena. Another noteworthy creator I followed was fred, whose smooth criminal music video is still saved on my DSi to this day. It was also cool to see the flipnote microcelebrities pay tribute back to the community with their own flair, especially since gizmo's harder better faster stronger boo video might as well be the poster animation for hatena as a whole. Boy, did hatena love to play that song everywhere. There are a lot of other flipnotes that shaped the platform, far more than I could detail.
The flipnote hatena service would eventually shut down in 2013, and with the 3DS version to succeed it getting stuck in developmental hell to the point where online support internationally was cancelled, it ostensibly marked an end of an era. A time period that you really had to be there for in order to have truly appreciated it. Or so you thought!!! Not only does the excellent flipnote archive that I've been using to grab old examples still exist making virtually every previous noteworthy flipnote and creator still accessible in the present day, but also there exists the sudomemo service, which restores online flipnote functionality on the original app with just a simple DNS change in your DS online settings. Sure, the community is a bit smaller now than what it once was, but there are still people making stuff, the flipnote dreams are still alive. The fact I was able to watch several undertale animations on the same old DSi I had as a kid just feels like a time paradox, but it is indeed real and possible.
It's crazy that I can write so much about a simple animation program, but I think this little app is so well loved for a reason. I feel like everyone has their own personal experiences with Flipnote Studio/Hatena, so I wanted to share my own. The one thing that I won't share, though, were the flipnotes that kid me made and uploaded to the service. Nobody needs to see those and they will remain between me and God for as long as I draw breath. Then again, maybe I should make something new and post it to sudomemo some day, just for old times's sake.
I remember back in like 2009 I was a plucky kid on a camping trip with some other fellow plucky kids and one of them had a DSi. It was with that kid that I learned about the many features of the DSi, like the goofy sound and photo apps, the ability to use a rainbow pen in pictochat, and most importantly, the ability to make crude animations of stickmen getting brutally mutilated through a mysterious orange app called flipnote studio. After that camping trip, I knew that I had to start saving up for a DSi.
Flipnote Studio is a flipbook animation program. It's featureset is light enough to the point where anyone can figure out how to use it, yet still offers enough features for talented artists and animators to make their work shine. The game used to offer an online service where users could upload and share their own animations as well as view and download other users animations, and that combined with the apps free price tag essentially meant everyone with a DSi at the time had access to this entire online subculture of music videos, fan re-edits, stick fights, and more.
It was basically my first exposure to social media back in the day. I (thankfully) wasn't allowed to go on the greater parts of the internet or youtube back then outside of like randomly researching old video games, so through flipnote studio I was able to keep up with all sorts of internet inside jokes and memes, even if most of them were exclusive to the flipnote studio subculture. It was pretty much a mixture of youtube and newgrounds except mostly populated by kids and nintendo fans, shit was crazy.
I was certainly a stick figure guy, watching stuff like gizmos many goofy stick figure cartoons, or getting immersed in BosS' kingdom-hearts-ass shonen anime-core serial dramas, which I always adored the aesthetic of despite not really understanding their influences back in the day. And of course, let's not forget the legendary stick fight animation by 100%, that shit was copied and pasted NONSTOP with all sorts of fan edits and song changes throughout all the years I used hatena. Another noteworthy creator I followed was fred, whose smooth criminal music video is still saved on my DSi to this day. It was also cool to see the flipnote microcelebrities pay tribute back to the community with their own flair, especially since gizmo's harder better faster stronger boo video might as well be the poster animation for hatena as a whole. Boy, did hatena love to play that song everywhere. There are a lot of other flipnotes that shaped the platform, far more than I could detail.
The flipnote hatena service would eventually shut down in 2013, and with the 3DS version to succeed it getting stuck in developmental hell to the point where online support internationally was cancelled, it ostensibly marked an end of an era. A time period that you really had to be there for in order to have truly appreciated it. Or so you thought!!! Not only does the excellent flipnote archive that I've been using to grab old examples still exist making virtually every previous noteworthy flipnote and creator still accessible in the present day, but also there exists the sudomemo service, which restores online flipnote functionality on the original app with just a simple DNS change in your DS online settings. Sure, the community is a bit smaller now than what it once was, but there are still people making stuff, the flipnote dreams are still alive. The fact I was able to watch several undertale animations on the same old DSi I had as a kid just feels like a time paradox, but it is indeed real and possible.
It's crazy that I can write so much about a simple animation program, but I think this little app is so well loved for a reason. I feel like everyone has their own personal experiences with Flipnote Studio/Hatena, so I wanted to share my own. The one thing that I won't share, though, were the flipnotes that kid me made and uploaded to the service. Nobody needs to see those and they will remain between me and God for as long as I draw breath. Then again, maybe I should make something new and post it to sudomemo some day, just for old times's sake.