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• One Million Comic Characters Created and Counting...

  March 13, 2010

  We're amazed each and every day with the amount of creative people on Pixton, and their ablilty to create so many interesting and funny characters - one million strong. As you page through comics, you'll quickly find that characters come in all shapes and sizes, each with their own special talent and attitude. They say a good story always starts with the characters...

  In honour of this glorious achievement, we have released a new stretch-n-shrink feature on Pixton that gives you the ability to change the proportions of each individual body part by simply clicking and dragging your mouse. Want to create a comical oger with long arms, short legs, narrow pot-bellied body, out-stretched ears, tiny mouth, wide eyes and a high forehead? No problem!

  We're excited to find out what the next one million characters will look like on Pixton and what their stories are!

• Upload your Image into Pixton Comics!

  March 11, 2010

  The much-anticipated image-uploading feature is here!

  Upload photos, images and illustrations from your computer directly into your Pixton comic! Missing an image? Access the Flickr Commons library too. Once you've uploaded your image into the comic creator, you can change the color and transparency of the image, rotate, resize, arrange, and flip it - just like any prop. Upload JPG, GIF and PNG files, including transparent PNGs for creative layering.

  This new features opens a world of possibilities for everyone including comic artists, illustrators, graphic novelists, cartoonists, designers and the like, who want to engage, interact and grow their fanbase in a whole new way. Comics can be remixed, rated, commented on, and favorited by people all over the world in over 40 languages. With a click of a button, comics can be instantly shared on the web by email, embedded in blogs, posted to social media sites like Facebook and even put on hundreds of different merchandise for sale.

  This feature is also incredibly useful for educators in Pixton for Schools, and for companies using Pixton for Business. Layering Pixton characters on top of your images adds a creative new dimension to the art of storytelling!
  

• NZ Cartoonist Makes The Erics Shortlist for Best Strip

  March 10, 2010

  Congrats are in order - Go Brunswick Go!

  Grant Buist, a.k.a Brunswick, has been short-listed for Best Strip in the 2010 Black River Digital New Zealand Comics Awards ("The Erics") for his legendary Pixton series Desert Funnies. The Erics recognize excellence in the New Zealand comics community, an honour deserving of the strip featuring two cacti.

  Read Desert Funnies by visiting Brunswick's page. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel all prickly inside!

  To find out more about NZ Comics Weekend and the other nominees.

  
  

• Winner of the Applied Arts Interactive Award - Pixton!

  January 6, 2010

  We're very pleased to announce that Pixton won the prestigious Interactive Media Award 2009 from Applied Arts Magazine!

  Applied Arts contests are judged by panels of highly regarded industry professionals and experts, in a rigorous process developed over more than 18 years of Awards experience. Every entry is scored independently by each judge based on creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use. Winners will be reproduced in the country’s most glorious showcase of creative work in the April/May 2010 issue, and kept as a valuable reference by the Applied Arts readership of more than 65,000.

  Applied Arts is Canada’s premier magazine of visual communications. For more than 20 years, they have delivered gorgeous imagery, strong opinion, timely information and essential industry insight to their readership of senior creative professionals in graphic design, interactive design, advertising, photography and illustration. Applied Arts' six yearly issues include two highly prized references—the Photography & Illustration Annual (July) and the Design & Advertising Annual (November). Applied Arts is a window on the very best creative work produced in this country and abroad.

  We congratulate all of the other winners! » Read more about the awards
  

• Backbone Magazine Selects Pixton for PICK20 Award

  July 28, 2009

  Hot off the press in today's issue of The Globe and Mail, Pixton was named one of the "20 companies that are driving innovation and changing the way we use the Internet" by Backbone Magazine.

  Judge Michael Geist, an expert in internet and e-commerce law, enjoyed seeing something “new and creative” and Judge Bradley Shende, media expert on Global’s Morning News, said Pixton “outputs creativity, collaboration, crowdsourcing and community all in an innovative new spin on an old, previously non-democratic medium.”

  PICK20 is the only national ranking of its kind and judges scored the nominees against five criteria: ROI, competitive advantage, ongoing value, execution and innovation. Other winners include Now Public, Kaboose, and social gaming powerhouse Club Penguin.

  So far we've doubled our membership twice over the past six months, with over a quarter of a million characters created. Our vision is to transform how the world makes comics, creating a premier destination on the web while driving a high-growth business, and this award recognizes us at a time when we're only just getting started!

  Congratulations to the other winners! Read more about the PICK 20 here.

• Dell, Education and Pixton Comics

  July 27, 2009 Brianne Brewer, Manager of Edu4U, Dell's online Primary/Secondary education community, recently invited Clive to blog about comics in the classroom.

  Read the posting here.