The first KID PIX to include an iPad version, the new S.T.E.A.M. edition of KID PIX® 5 enters a world where art and science reunite and critical thinking meets creative making. Young artists can now transform their digital stories and adventures into interactive digital art, science and math projects that suit the needs of young innovators. New button actions enable students to design interactive quizzes or create a learning game. Using a variety of animated costumes and videos they record themselves, kids can star in their own documentaries or talk to an animated character who shares the screen. New in this edition • Path gestures Rotating and resizing stickers, animations, movies and text while moving them along a path is as simple as pinching and dragging, making it easy to create characters who hop, jump, fly, and spin around the screen. • Interactive tappable objects No longer bound to a linear model, students can create interactive characters that react when tapped — to tell a story, sing a song, make a funny noise, or even take off and whiz around the screen. • Collaborative video narration Two students using the iPad’s built-in dual-view camera can create a video narration, in which they appear in animated costume frames that lets them not only tell their stories on screen but appear as characters in them as well. • Presentation creator Slide Shows and stop-action flipbook movies can be created on the same screen as the paint canvas using the new Slide Show Tube. • Create stickers New tools allow you to make an object out of anything you see on screen. • Button stickers New button stickers let you add interactive navigation options in Slide Shows such as stop playing, next page, and go back a step. • Object sounds Now you can attach a sound directly to any object that will play when it's tapped. Available sounds include recording your own voice, musical instruments and sound effects so you can make clocks that tick, dragons that talk, or create a wacky musical instrument that makes animal noises instead of notes. • Auto-perspective Bring a sense of perspective to your path animations with this new option. Objects gradually grow larger as they move towards the bottom of the canvas, as if they’re getting closer, and smaller as they travel towards the top, like they’re moving away. • Enhanced Help mode In this mode compact but informative help for everything you see on the screen is one tap away. • Voiceovers Record a full-length narration for your Slide Show or give voices to all the characters in your animated tale. This edition also includes: • Unlimited Undo and Redo • Multi-layered 3D backgrounds • 3D animated characters and objects • 163 video backgrounds • Easy path animation for characters, stickers, and text • Objects can be rotated, even on a path • Triple sound tracks for projects • Creation of instant photo stickers using the iPad’s camera • Enhanced video narration with animated costume frames • Creation of new stickers by cutting out parts of a picture and making white areas transparent • Layer Tools to move objects between layers • Publishing directly to YouTube • Sharing to Dropbox, Google Drive, or FTP server • Flipbook and Storybook options for Slide Shows • 50 state-of-the-art transition effects for Slide Shows • Great new art!
Question
When will there be an update to improve that fun app?
Update
Kid Pix is nice but it would be nice if the people who made the Kid Pix app for iPad would make an update to make it better and more entertaining for everyone to enjoy.
So disappointing!
I have used Kid Pix since it first came out, and this version is disappointing. It doesn’t offer the range of colors that the old one had, and the help menu is no help. I am losing functions every time I use it. Last night the print option disappeared from the menu after printing 4 pages, and I had 7 more to do. And there are never updates or bug fixes on the App Store. 😢
Always a great program/app
This has always been my favorite program for kids’ STEAM, and a lot of teacher stuff. Unfortunately, I cannot get the grab hand or Mr. Undo to work. Glad the eraser does!
iPad Pro/Air support
I love this app, it’s almost as great as Kid Pix 4, which I used as a kid. One thing I’d like to see added is support for the new iPad Pro/Air screen size; right now, it has black bars on the top and bottom which make it less immersive. Otherwise, this is a great portable version of Kid Pix!
Return of a Classic!
I first jumped on the Kid Pix bandwagon back in 1991 when it was released for the first generation of Macs. In fact, the reason we got the Macintosh LC instead of the Classic II the following year was to run this amazing program in color! 30 years later, it is great to see it around and updated for a new generation of children. Kid Pix has always been a top program for both creativity and exploratory learning. While the interface may have changed, it is nice to see some elements remaining, such as some of the sound effects and the original rubber stamps. (If only the firecracker eraser were still in the program). Kid Pix transfers nicely to the iPad in terms of usability and has some new features that even stun this longtime fan of the program. While I still have that Macintosh LC, it’s nice to know we now have a modern version of an all time classic. This one is definitely deserving of the five star rating and is worth the money.
The Best!
We had this app years ago on our computer and loved it. Guess what? We still love it. KidPix rocks! It’s totally awesome. I think it has almost everything that the old KidPix had plus more. And the customer service is amazing! Get it, you won’t regret it!
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