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ToonLoop is a set of software tools for live stop motion animation. It is intended to help teaching new medias to children and to give a professional tool for movie creators. The performer can use a MIDI pedal to add frames to a constantly looping animation. ToonLoop is an idea and work of Alexandre Quessy with the help of Tristan Matthews. It is similar to the work of Pierre Hébert and Norman McLaren from the NFB of Canada who draw on film in live performances. See http://www.toonloop.com and http://code.google.com/p/toonloop for up-to-date informations.

Our current technologies are : Python, SDL (pygame), OpenGL and GLSL shaders. We use the JPEG and Motion-JPEG formats with the Quicktime component, or AVI. Operating systems : GNU/Linux and Mac OS X for the Python current version. There is also a Java/Processing version for Mac OS X and Windows. We use the Twisted and Nevow asynchronous networking Python packages. It supports the onionskin and chromakey effects. It can be controlled using either the keyboard or MIDI devices. It can be rendered full screen. Video clips can be exported as movie files. See http://toonloop.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/py/INSTALL.txt for installation instructions for GNU/Linux.