HD Artists

First Artist Community Photo Inside Cards Live

Our first two Artist Studio Photo Inside cards are live and doing very well!  Thank you Jaime Pardo and Neil Bushnell for your great work.  Remember that Photo Inside cards tend to be sent more often, are more viral, and will be part of our subscription program (earning you more $).

You can see the new cards here:
Jamie Pardo's Birthday Toast
Neil Bushnell's Birthday Bear

For more information on creating Photo Inside cards, check the Artist Wiki for revised documentation and samples that make the process pretty straightforward!

*As you're thinking of concepts, remember that your animation can 1) include one or two user-uploaded photos, 2) fit the photos into any shaped space (Too Many Candles fits a users' rectangular photo onto top of ellyptical cake without requiring cropping) and 3) include faceshots on animated bodies (this does require a special cropping feature, which we will make available).

Photo Inside Opened to the Artist Community

We have now officially opened up the ability to create Photo Inside animations to all artists!  This allows you to create animations using custom user photos like the ones seen on the HD Greetings site.

The process is fairly easy, well documented, and works for both 2d and 3d artists.

We have also provided a small example animation to learn from as well as a tool for artists to automatically test that everything is working before having to start the upload process.

The documentation is an open wiki site which means we encourage you to actually make comments, changes, or add samples yourself if you like.

Finally we are here to help: If you have any questions please submit them to develop@hdgreetings.com.

To get started, click here now:  http://wiki.hdgreetings.com/artists

Thank you!