And our Wacom Challenge winner is… MartinNH!

Posted on September 28, 2007

Well it is time to announce the winner of the Wacom Challenge, which is … MartinNH! for his video Painting Jack Sparrow using a Wacom tablet. Congratulations Martin!

Martin will take home our Grand Prize, a fantastic Cintiq 21UX, which we are sure will help Martin do even better Illustrations and videos. You can enjoy more of Martin’s work in his Sclipo Academy and his blog Martinity.com.

Also congratulations to the other 6 runners-up winners, who won one of Wacom’s newest products, a wonderful Bamboo Pen Tablet!
Comic strip
Quick Z3 Doodle
How to create Fonts
Intuos configuration
Animation
Digital painting tutorial

We are delighted about the active and enthusiastic participation: 42 participants, 82 videos and hundreds of thousands of visitors! Also, the response and feedback from our viewers have exceeded our expectations. Thanks a lot to all who participated!

Finally, thanks to Wacom, the Sponsor of this Challenge. It was great to work with the Wacom team. Thanks for trusting Sclipo with running this challenge (we know there are quite a few video communities out there …)!

Sclipo launches SclipoLive - a pioneer webcam teaching system

Posted on September 14, 2007

How was your summer? We had a great one … crunching out the public version of SclipoLive, our new webcam system for teaching. With SclipoLive, our Academies can now choose if they want to share knowledge via video, or webcam or both.

SclipoLive is a powerful new app that offers our members two distinct advantages:
1. To teach personalized classes live (how-to videos are, in the end, not customizable one-fits-all micro-lessons).
2. To make good money (teachers may charge for a live class, whereas users would hardly pay to watch a video, except for tips here and there). Teachers can use their videos as self-advertising! What better way to convince somebody that you are great teacher then showing her how good you teach in a short video?

Sclipo takes a small commission from the seller of a class. For classes taught for free, Sclipo charges nothing.

Here’s how SclipoLive works. Besides a large webcam window where you see the teacher / learner and a small window to see yourself, SclipoLive allows to chat and to take private notes. These are deep-tagged into the video stream, which is recorded. This means, classes (which remain private) can be reviewed, and by clicking on a note or chat text, you jump forward to the point where the chat / note was made.

Pretty cool, isn’t it? Don’t you wish you could have video-recorded all your classes, and that all your notes where deep-tagged, so you can easily find exactly that part of the lecture where the prof explained …

Here was what others say about SclipoLive: Genbeta, Mashable, Techcrunch.

We hope you like SclipoLive. Questions? Or interested in a demo? Please email Edwin [edwin-at-sclipo.com].