Discover the newest Time-Waster for design fans on Facebook: BitStrips! A review from CartoonDesign.us

2. Nearly every other day I get another invite to install yet another app
to my Facebook. Most of the time I will just ignore the invite (the last
one wasn’t entertaining anyway), but the other day I found one that
really stood out. As an animation and cartoon guy, I love anything
visual, especially if I get to play around and create something. And I’m
really a fan when I get to create something very cool looking and with
minimal effort . That’s exactly what I found with BitStrips.
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3. BitStrips is a quickly growing Facebook App that allows you to not only
create an avatar for yourself, but lets you place the avatar in a scene,
manipulate the dude however you want and share the image with
your friends. This is very enticing to those of us who love to draw and
design, but usually don’t have all day to toss together cool looking,
Flash-Based drawings. I would love to have the time of day to hand
draw a bunch of funny images and post them online, but I also want
to live a life. BitStrips solves this problem! 
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4. The best feature of BitStrips is the level of options made available
when designing your avatar. This is ridiculous! Every kind of hat, hair,
shirt, pants, shoes, socks (yes, socks!) are available on this thing. It
even goes further, including head shape, eye details, blush (are you
embarrassed easily? Take your pick of how red you get!) and tons more.
Looking at these options will make you realize how little you know
about your own visual representation to the real world! This may or
may not be a good thing. www.cartoondesign.us – BitStrips Review

5. Once you complete your avatar,
you can put him/her into a
scene. These are nearly as
customizable as the avatar
itself. BitStrips offers tons of
different scenes with little
captions like “Bob will do
anything to get out of an
obligation.” or “Wake Bob up
when it’s the weekend.”
Naturally, the scene matches
the caption. And if you want,
you can change the caption to
fit whatever you want it to say.
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6. You can add dialogue to your character, change his emotion, change the
caption and, my favorite, bend the living heck out of the avatar! Pretty
much every bending point on the human body exists on your avatar, and
you can even bend him or her completely out of whack if you want.
Have fun, be creative, and remember, the avatar knows no pain.
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7. After you have found a perfectly suited position for your BitStrips guy,
you can share him with the world, either as a status update or a
direct message to another Facebook user. Even better, you can create
an avatar of you friend and stick them in the scene with you! BitStrips
even allows you to create a greeting card to send to a friend. Just like
choosing scenes, but in the form of a greeting card.
Overall, BitStrips looks like a fantastic time-waster for anyone who
loves cartoon design and animation. It lets you quickly design a web
likeness for yourself (or others!), allows you to place yourself in funny
scenes and, of course, allows you to share your BitStrips with anyone
you want. I pretty much never recommend a Facebook App, but for
the price (FREE!) this one is definitely worth it. So enjoy making
funny stuff, creating a new genre of meme and feeling like a true
comic artist!
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8. To learn more about BitStrips, visit www.BitStrips.com
To learn more about comics, animation and design, visit
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