Once captured the items can dropped into the toy box (letters are first presented as simple puzzles that must be pieced together) along with the digits 0-9. Children who have enjoyed the Numberlys story app will recognize the accented voice Mike Martindale, who lets them know just what they have found. To capture them viewers must hold a phone or tablet on “camera” mode over a page of the book a tap to a glowing object or letter will lock it in. With device and book in hand Imag.N.O.Tron adds motion and sound (grinding gears, marching feet) to many of the story’s scenes, but the real goal is to locate and collect the letters of the alphabet and various toys on its pages. ![]() Unlike Morris Lessmore, this app is less story enhancement than gameplay. Like the augmented Morris Lessmore, viewers will need a copy of the book to activate the Numberlys Imag.N.O.Tron (iOS, $.99 Android, $.99 Kindle HDX, $.99). School Library Journal's reviewer praised that production, calling it a " cinematic” with a “gorgeously rich orchestral soundtrack." Moonbot Studios has since produced a Numberlys film and William Joyce and Christina Ellis's The Numberlys is now a book (Atheneum, 2013). In that world five rotund creatures set out to make something "different" and through trial and error forge the 26 letters of the alphabet. The Numberlys features a futuristic world filled with machinery and numbers, but devoid of color and letters. Now Moonbot has created an Imag.N.O.Tron app for The Numberlys, their homage to classic films of the 1920s, specifically Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. As viewers hold an iPad over the book version of Morris Lessmore, characters begin to move, pages flutter, and books whisper. ![]() That story has seen several incarnations, the last an Imag.N.O.Tron version featuring “ augmented reality." If you haven't yet seen how that works, take a peek at our demonstration. Co-founder and author William Joyce and his crewe have produced some wildly imaginative, successful productions, including The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. ![]() I'm a big fan of Moonbot Studios-that "secret zero-gravity colony inhabited by interstellar beings" in Shreveport, LA.
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