Animation on your iPod with iPod Scrubs

It's a rather well known trick to put a "video" on your iPod by importing a series of sequential images and "scrubbing" through them with the click wheel, flip-book style. Jay wrote about a service called Clickwheel a little while ago, which is an application that lets you subscribe to/download iPod "comics" that are made in much the same way. Today I found iPod Scrubs, which is a site that hopes to create a gallery of downloadable, user-created animations. They suggest that this could be a good way for developers working in applications like Maya and Flash to test their animations. The site also includes a tutorial on how to make you own.

While it's interesting as a "Hey, that's kind of neat" type of thing, I can't imagine going through the trouble of exporting a movie as sequential images, loading them into iPhoto and they synchronizing my iPod just to "test" an animation. But, it is fun as a sort of hi-tech parlor trick. Check it out.