Last days, we introduced a specific preview for the storyboards. So, now you can discern with just a quick look, if a work is whole story or only a picture.
It was some time that we were thinking on this feature. As you know, Koinup is a multi media based social network. Members can upload pictures, stories/storyboard and videos (machinima). We always thought that each media has its own specificity, so since the launch of koinup we worked on unique previews for each media. And these days, it happened that we completed the circle.... Pictures have their thumbs, videos their own loops and storyboards eventually have their own well-framed preview. What's about it? Well, hope you like it....So, what a better moment to have a look at our last coolest stories?
Koinup is perfect to try this! Wear your favourite outfits and poses, make a lot of snapshots and publish them in Koinup as a great fashion set! We have yet some great example of members using our storyboard in this way. You can also try the perfect shot and condense your fashion style in only one picture.
I noticed that some cool members started to join our storyboard. I'm so glad of it! I wanna give you some tips to upload your stories in the more easy way! When your story (or storyboard for a machinima or anything else) is well planned and ready, you can start to upload the first picture of it. To do it: go in the upload page, select the right world and choose “storyboard” as the media. Then browse the first frame/screenshot and upload it. Once published, below the image you'll find the link “Add other frames”. Click on it and in the subsequent popup window browse and choose the other frames you wanna add to your story. Beside the images boxes you have boxes for the texts. Copy and paste your texts inside the boxes or write directly into it. With our uploadeder you can upload 5 images at a time; so if your story is longer than 6 images, repeat this procedure more times. Storyboard can be up to 30 frames long! If your story is longer than 30, try to divide it in parts or chapters. Hope this post help. See you next days, with other tips for the storyboard! Here you can find one the coolest Koinup storyboards
I'm glad to tell you that today we launched the "Story Show". It's a slide show tool that allow you to enjoy Koinup stories in a coolest way! With Story Show you can see storyboards in a slideshow style!
Have storyboards some text in it? It is not a problem. Story Show grants a great visualization to both words and images!
It is very ease to use. While watching at some stories you have always the chance to display it as a list or as a storyshow. If you choose the Story Show display mode, you can let it to flip trought all the pictures and words or you can browse the story in the order you like it!
Some members ask me when it is better to use storyboard instead of pictures. I think that storyboard work fine what you have to say something that it is not so easy to tell with only one picture. Some Koinup artists use Koinup to publish fashion styling. Others use it to report on travels and adventures they have in virtual environment. Other use storyboard to make tutorials. Koinup is your website, we'll be very glad to see a lot of unexpected uses of storyboard!
I'm glad to tell you that Koinup, now, has its own search feature!
We're testing the tool, so It's possible that you could come across some issue and bug. But the most important is that now you could search for the subject you like and you want to know!!!!
Our Search Tool is based on the idea that any Koinup member maybe could be interested only in a few of our Koinup categories. Maybe someone is interested only in machinima and videos. Some others maybe could be interested only in Second life works. Or only in stories
We tried to comply this......Let me know if we're reaching this aim......
Some Koinup enthusiasts last days asked me: " What's the hell is Coolest? Why do you name some works as coolest?
It's an interesting questions and I'm so glad to explain a little bit........
At first, let me say that any work (as videos, machinima, pictures) and any member in Koinup can be a coolest! Coolest is a feature of Koinup works and people that obtain great feedback from the community: Coolest works are the most view, commented and saved as favourites works Coolest people are the most active and appreciated member of the website
Who decide if a work is coolest or not? You, abviously! We made the algorithm that displays work. But you decide if a work "rocks!" or not!!!!!!!!
Next days, we'll go on to talk about "the coolest"....
here, the actually great and coolest (more coolest!) Koinup machinima
Video above is Shadov Dance (by Kisai Studios) is a machinima created with The Sims! you can see also here!
