A very nice time lapse of the Samsung/RadioShack 500 by Fort Worth, Texas' Star Telegram staff member Ross Hailey:

"iStopMotion worked great again, running all day on an iBook G3, it produced as expected without any problems. Thanks!"

PATV Executive Director and animation guru Josh Goding hosts a free class on digital animation techniques for PATV members April 16th from 12-2 at PATV, Iowa City. The class will combine Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and iStopMotion to create an animation.

FotoMagico moves forward nicely. Try the new FotoMagico 1.6 beta. It features two brand new transitions, ColorSync support and the biggest news: faster, better and easier export. Let us know what you think.

There I am, starting to blog for O'Reilly, and five minutes later, I am quoted in USA TODAY. Cool. (Of course I only temporarly switched to Windows...)

Oliver installed Windows XP on our Intel iMac and wrote about it on the O'Reilly mac weblog: "As you've probably heard about now, Apple has made a cool piece of software available called “Boot Camp”. Of course I had to sit down and try it out immediately. This is what I find."

18 films from all over the world participated in the morph2005 contest. 10,000 people visited the contest website, watched the entries and voted. Awards were to be won in two categories: best stop motion quickie (viewer's choice) and best stop motion character (jury award). View the grand online ceremony. Congratulations to the winners:

• Das Runde muss ins Eckige by Thomas Färber
• Die Musik des Erich Zann by Anna Gawrilow

Boinx Software's Oliver Breidenbach has joined the ranks of the official O'Reilly webloggers.

Sven has a couple of movies at his website:

• 24 hours - a time lapse from his appartment (24h compressed to 1.5 minutes)
• FWP24H - another time lapse of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz
• mankind - a stop motion movie

"The time lapse functionality of iStopMotion is really cool."