{"id":796,"date":"2009-07-07T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=796"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:16","slug":"introducing-muggmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2009\/07\/introducing-muggmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Muggmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post has been a long time coming! In fact, part of the reason I have been neglecting this fine website has been to focus on finishing the project about which I write.
\nI’m proud to announce the release of Muggmaker<\/a>. I have been working on Muggmaker<\/a> for over two years on and off. It started as a little Flash file in my “flash lab” folder on my computer and has grown into something much bigger.<\/p>\n


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\nOver the years, alongside my freelance illustration career<\/a>, I have also been working at my other job as an interactive designer for WSJ.com<\/a>. I had spent so much time writing Flash applications at my day job, yet I never had attempted a project that applied all that code to something that was all about illustration and animation. So in my spare time I kept jamming away at this make-a-face experiment, and kept evolving it.
\nAt a certain point, I realized that I could also include all of the database stuff I had been doing<\/a>, by making a full-fledged service out of the app, that would allow people to save their faces, and share them with anyone. So I slogged away building Muggmaker to be a web application with all the “Web 2.0” trimmings.
\nEnter Facebook. As I worked on polishing Muggmaker<\/a>, Facebook got more and more popular. As of July 2009, Facebook officially claims north of 200 million active users (though it’s rumored to be more like 300 million users). I knew I had to have SOME sort of hook into Facebook, but at a certain point, I decided to just go all in.
\nSo now Muggmaker has been launched as a Facebook Application<\/a> (I will launch a regular web-only version in the near future as well). You can make a Mugg<\/a>, animate it, and share it with your other Facebook friends. You can also export a JPEG of your Mugg which you can use on anywhere else. It’s been fun watching the first users make Muggs of each other<\/a>, and celebrities<\/a>.
\nSo if you are on Facebook, please head on over and check out Muggmaker. If you like it, I’d love it if you could write a review<\/a>, and become of fan<\/a> of it as well.
\nBelow is a quick video tour so you can get an idea what it’s all about…I’d love to hear your feedback<\/a>, and I look forward to seeing your Muggs!
\nLink: Muggmaker on Facebook<\/a><\/b>
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