Dear ToonDooers,

This festive season, we wanted to give you gifts that you could enjoy beyond Christmas and the New Year.

So here they are: A brand new collection of over 5000 new clipart for you to get creative with!!!

We call this new collection the ‘Open clipart’ gallery (as it comes from an Open Source.)

For ease of use, all the new clipart has been tagged and sub-categorized (People, Plants / Animals, Celebration, Eatables, Sports, Shapes, Indoors, Outdoors and World props)

And that’s not all folks!

Some of the Christmas magic has also overflown into the Jambav gallery in the form of a Santa-Jambav!

We wish all ToonDooers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

meerasapra
ToonDudette from www.jambav.com

P.S. Watch out for even more new clipart coming soon to the Open Clipart gallery!

Hi Dudes and Dudettes,

Now that the festivities have already begun with the Diwali special at ToonDoo, we decided to bring in the festive ’spirit’ of Halloween too!

So, here’s our all-new ‘No Tricks, only TREAT!’ Halloween collection of props featuring jack-o’-lanterns, scarecrow, witches hats and brooms, ghoul candy, cauldron, and more.  All these have been added to the ‘celebration’ gallery of the ToonDoo creator.

And if that’s not enough, your favorite Jambav bear gets a Halloween avatar too!
Check out his many scary Halloween-themed postures in the Jambav gallery.

Learn more about Halloween.

Happy trick-or-treating and happy creating!

meerasapra
ToonDudette from www.jambav.com

The Olympic flame might have been well-and-truly handed over to the Brits in the Red Double Decker more than a week ago, but deep inside me, the spirit is still flaming high!

I used to play basketball at school and college, and in fact even captained my institute team during my time.

Much has changed in the game, and in the past decade, many NBA rules have been bled into mainstream Olympic basketball.

We recently created a collection of clipart on the Olympic Theme, and looking for inspiration and ideas in the Olympic Museum, i was piqued to see the “evolution” of basketball through the ages.

“Dunking”, and “Slam dunking” in particular, was the nearly unreachable mecca for most basketballers, and we used to envy the amazing ease with which NBA players used to slam dunk the ball almost at will.

And, see the image below, a collage of pictograms that were used in each Olympic game, to represent basketball.

Tokyo, Moscow and Los Angeles had a timid almost lame lone figure dribbling a ball.

Seoul got the dunk concept right, but the pose wrong. Only Yao Ming the Chinese giant could dunk the ball probably, standing like that!

Barcelona and Sydney look like they got some dancers on court, and not basketballers.

The Athens figure seems to want to climb on the ring, not put the ball in.

Beijing nails it perfectly. The backlifted hand, the ball, the other hand leaning in balance, the feet in the air, all in perfect choroeography, great stuff.

But, my favourite basketballer? Well, gotta be Jambav of course, right in the center of our collage! Find Jambav doing this, and many other poses too (in fact 35 of them!), in our stick figures collection.

Rajendran.

ToonDude from www.jambav.com

In recent times, there have been a lot of wonderful (if cliched!) cartoon strips from Plash about day-to-day inanities in home and school life.

And, they all end with a quintessential, inimitable “Toing”…

When I asked him what exactly it was, he responded with a typical mimicked Sound Effect. For Plash, it is almost a personal MacGuffin, something that he uses with great effect, to punch home a point. In situations like this, the best response is sometimes silence, and as silence is difficult to depict in a ToonDoo, he resorts to a LOUD silence, indicated by this Toing!

But, for all those around the world who are deprived of this aural experience, here is something that takes you pretty close.

Watch each of these ToonDoos, and when you reach the last frame, the one with the punch-line that says “Toing”, hit the Play Toing button that sits right underneath it…
Enjoy!

And, finally, Mr. Toing himself, in a very beautifully drawn lace curtain, caught unawares while in his bathroom perhaps!

Way to go, Plash! Doo More!!

12th December 2006 - That was when Arun first sketched up the rough cut first interface for the yet-unnamed Cartoon Strip Maker from Jambav.

Was closing down old tasks from our Issue Tracker, and saw the sketch again.

How much we have come since that first day!

Whew and Wow! Mixed feelings!

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ToonDude from Jambav.