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CartoonSmart Tutorials

A humorous video podcast from CartoonSmart.com. Topics will include: iOS / tvOS game development with Xcode, Swift and Sprite Kit, plus anything to do with illustration, character design, animation, or Adobe software (Flash / Animate in particular). These are a bit of a spoof on our usual material (okay, very much a spoof), but we dare you NOT to learn at least something in these videos tutorials. Videos range from 30mb to 50mb (relatively small).

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Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 3 –...

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2017/01/14

Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 3 – Introducing SKActions and Detecting Touches In this video tutorial, we’ll continue where we left off in the last video and run SKActions on our player. We’ll work both with programmatically setup SKActions as well as Actions created using the Timeline in the Scene Editor. Then we’ll work with detecting […]

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Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 2 –...

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2017/01/13

Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 2 – Adding a Player with Physics Properties In this video tutorial we’ll jump right in by adding player art assets to the game, then use them in our Sprite Kit Scene file by setting physics properties on an SKSpriteNode. We’ll tinker with some of the physics, then look at how […]

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Build an iMessage App Part 5 – Adding the Second...

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2017/01/13

Build an iMessage App Part 5 – Adding the Second UIPickerView In this part of our Swift 3 / iMessage app video tutorial, we’ll progress from the intro screen to an expanded mode where the user will customize the image they want to create. We’ll remove our first UIPickerView and replace it with a two component (column) wheel which will […]

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Build an iMessage App Part 4 – Styling UIButtons and...

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2017/01/12

Build an iMessage App Part 4 – Styling UIButtons and UIView Animations In this video we’ll add a UIButton to eventually move away from the intro picker, but primarily we’ll focus on styling the button, adding custom fonts to Xcode, repositioning (and animating) views when we switch between expanded and compact mode. Hosts: Justin Dike

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Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 1 –...

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2017/01/12

Introduction to Sprite Kit with Swift 3 – Part 1 – The Starting Template A quick video tutorial for FIRST time users of Xcode 8, Sprite Kit, and (later on) Swift 3. This video is a quick tour of the general settings in Xcode 8, and the GameScene.sks file. We’ll tinker a bit with some physics properties and run the Simulator […]

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Build an iMessage App Part 3 – UIPickerView Setup

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2017/01/06

Build an iMessage App Part 3 -Using Images in the Picker and Selecting Rows (Video Tutorial Podcast 39) In this video tutorial we will replace the UILabels in our UIPickerView and instead use UIImageViews. We’ll also look at the code to detect what row has been selected. Hosts: Justin Dike

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Build an iMessage App Part 2 – UIPickerView Setup

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2017/01/04

In this Xcode 8 video tutorial, we'll take a quick look at Sticker Packs for iOS 10, how to set them up, how stickers are sent, and then we'll discuss how to create animated PNGs (APNG files) as an alternative resource asset that can be imported to Xcode. In other words instead of using Sticker Sequence, you can import APNG which can have some advantages.

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Build an iMessage App Part 1 – Template Introduction

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2017/01/04

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Sticker Packs and How to make Animated PNGS (Episode 36)

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2016/08/19

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How to Setup Tile Maps in Xcode 8 (Episode 35)

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2016/08/10

In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to setup Tile Maps in Xcode 8. We'll look at the new Tile Map Node, the tools to paint tiles in the node, and even some tips on how to create your adjacent tiles to bring into Xcode. Plenty more to come at CartoonSmart.com for iOS 10 and Xcode 8.

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How to setup a Sprite Kit based watchOS 3 App ...

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2016/06/24

Learn how to start programming a game using Sprite Kit on Apple Watch. This tutorial using Xcode 8, Swift 3 and targets Watch OS3 on the simulator. You'll learn how to add a Watch target to an existing Sprite Kit based object, add a WKSwipeGestureRecognizer to the InterfaceController than ultimately detect those swipes in the GameScene.swift.

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Switching from Swift 2.2 to Swift 3 in Xcode 8...

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2016/06/17

Switching from Swift 2.2 to 3 in Xcode 8 (CartoonSmart Video Tutorial Podcast Episode 34) In this video tutorial podcast we’ll take a look at a typical Universal Swift based project and up convert it to Swift 3. We’ll be using an early version of Xcode 8, so things may change later on, but this will give you Swift 3 […]

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How to Draw Donkey Kong Style Pixel Art (Episode 33)

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2016/06/10

In this Adobe Animate / Flash video tutorial, we'll teach how to draw vector art to look like retro pixel art. Ironic huh. And as the title says, in particular we'll mockup a Donkey Kong style board. We'll also teach how to animate a rolling barrel.

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How to Change Entire Image Sequences in Adobe Animate...

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2016/06/07

How to Change Entire Image Sequences in Adobe Animate (Video Tutorial Podcast Episode 32) Today we’ll look at how to take a series of already-exported images, import them into either Adobe Flash or Animate, make mass changes to them using the Edit Multiple Frames option, then re-export them. Hosts: Justin Dike, Clevon O’Doul

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Sets / Set Collections in Swift (Episode 31)

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2016/05/31

This Swift video tutorial we'll talk about creating Set collection variables. Sets are similar to arrays, but are unordered collections. You can check if a set contains an element using the .contains property. You can add or remove to a Set using .insert and .remove . You iterate through a set collection using a for loop. You can also compare collections using .isSubsetOf , .isSupersetOf , .isDisjointWith .

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Logical AND OR operators with Swift (Episode 30)

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2016/05/26

This Swift video tutorial we'll talk about logical AND (&&) and OR ( || ) operators. Okay, not the most exciting Swift tutorial, but an essential for anyone programing an iOS or tvOS app with Xcode.

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Nil Coalescing Operators with Swift (Episode 29)

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2016/05/26

In this Swift video tutorial, we'll talk about nil coalescing operators. This operator, defined by two question marks ( ?? ), allows you to quickly set a variable equal to a default value if another variable is nil. For example, let someVar = varThatMightBeNil ?? defaultAmount

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Ternary Conditional Operators in Swift 2 (Episode 28)

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2016/05/24

Ternary Conditional Operators in Swift 2.2 (CartoonSmart Video Tutorial Podcast 28) This video tutorial we’ll talk about how to shorthand some if…else statements with the ternary conditional operators. With a bool variable you can quickly make a value equal something based on two conditions. For example… let someVar = question ? answer1 : answer2 , where question is a bool […]

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Why Program Using Optionals in Swift (Episode 27)

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2016/05/24

In this Swift video tutorial, we'll discuss the how's and why's of programming optional variables in any of your iOS or tvOS apps or games. Optionals allow you to test if a variable is nil or not. We'll go over testing for nil values, then safely forcing a value from an optional variable.

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How to Pause and Repeat Actions in an SKAction...

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2016/05/23

In the first couple minutes we'll give viewers a little background on why they might want to pause, then repeat the last action in an SKAction sequence (specifically, we'll take a quick look at our current Card and Board Games tutorial series). Sprite Kit allows developers to create sequences of code, for example, you might move a star up on the Y axis, then left on the X axis, then scale it down, and so on. But you can also create an SKAction (SKAction.runBlock) which simply runs a block of code,

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