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Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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A big company moneygram.com use it with no problem.

Big companies can afford to - the point is not that Meta would win a case, it's that most people are too small to survive a case long enough to see it through to a win against Meta.

Well, then the first question I would ask the court: Why does Meta not sue big comapny XYZ hosting xyzgram.com?

Not that I don't believe OC, but I don't find any example for this story.

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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A good SVG animation tool is dearly missing. I wish Inkscape could do it or there was an Inkscape-like animation tool, that does not hide but rather embraces the underlying SVG code. Can you tell how you approach to this is? Can you just export SVG animations or even import and edit without destroying the original structure?

Recently I was trying to create lightweight SVG images for an embedded project and was looking for exactly this type of thing. I ended up drawing them in Inkscape and then opening in a text editor to strip out everything that wasn't necessary, and round every coordinate to the nearest integer. I was using Ristretto next to the text editor to see the changes and was kind of wishing it could go the other way as well, maybe as a plugin for Geany or something.

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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Back in the day I used to do quite a lot of Macromedia Flash work. It’s uncannily similar but a modern take. I’ve often wondered why no one has come up with a new product in this space. I think the long term demise of Flash has put off anyone even trying. There are so many great uses for animations on the web, even if we don’t need full blown user interfaces of them and intro screens like we did back in 2002. Great j…

IMO, Flash died because it didn't play nice with the conventions of the web. There were workarounds, but generally it broke all of the things HTML could do, like being searchable & selectable, navigable with a keyboard, built of code you could inspect, addressable with a direct link, even working with the browser's back button.

The actual animations and (sometimes) beautiful interfaces were not the problem. People generally loved that.

Generally there's no need for a new product in this space because CSS does everything Flash once did, but adheres to web conventions.

There probably is an opportunity, though. I'm not a motion graphics person - does Adobe Animate fit the bill at all? What do you think is missing today that we once had with Flash?

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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No, since flash is no longer around. Meaning you can still create all the animations and games, but then you will have to try to port it to js and canvas (via easeljs). And that did not work very nicely last time I tried it.

The Flash player is gone, but the authoring software called Adobe Flash was just rebranded to Adobe Animate. Back in the Flash times Flash was quite popular for Western-style 2d animation, and a lot of TV series were produced in Flash. Animate has been keeping that somewhat alive, though better alternatives have emerged.

Yeah, I was talking about Adobe Animate. It is not at all as useful as flash was, without exporting to flash. Exporting to html/canvas is a pain.

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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Looks very nice. Is this on webgl? Speaking as a non-professional JS programmer, where can I read about how to architect a program like this where you select a tool, then that tool lets you draw (or do something) on canvas. Another tool, has a different behavior to mouse click/movement while initial placement and later editing of the nodes. Architect it in such a way that its not a long list of if statements for stat…

tldraw could be a good example to look at. It’s an open source infinite canvas drawing app: https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw

The live version is at https://tldraw.com

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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Back in the day I used to do quite a lot of Macromedia Flash work. It’s uncannily similar but a modern take. I’ve often wondered why no one has come up with a new product in this space. I think the long term demise of Flash has put off anyone even trying. There are so many great uses for animations on the web, even if we don’t need full blown user interfaces of them and intro screens like we did back in 2002. Great j…

IMO, Flash died because it didn't play nice with the conventions of the web. There were workarounds, but generally it broke all of the things HTML could do, like being searchable & selectable, navigable with a keyboard, built of code you could inspect, addressable with a direct link, even working with the browser's back button. The actual animations and (sometimes) beautiful interfaces were not the problem. People ge…

Meanwhile we didn't have a replacement, and any replacement lacks of all the features you list, text selection, etc.

It got killed because Apple stopped supporting it. That's the reason.

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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post #106

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This exactly... I would represent myself, it would be fun.... and let Meta spend hundreds of thousands on lawyers. If I lost I would drag it out as long as possible and then if by some strange twist of fate I lost, I would declare bankruptcy and write a book about the whole thing.

I know your comment is just internet puffery, but please know that the old adage is true: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client." There is a reason that judges will ask defendents multiple times if they're really, really, truely sure they want to represent themselves before allowing it. As much as you wish it, a dictionary or common sense does little to nothing in a court of law. Mostly, you'll just a…

I don't remember what podcast I heard it from, but another opinion about representing yourself: it's more taxing on the judge. It consumes more court resources to represent yourself; which already is scarce. Which is why they often make sure you really want to do this.

In most cases, yeah. Most people have little to no idea how the courts run, so judges often have to give large amounts of leeway to non lawyer pro se defendants.

I have no formal training, and am under no illusions that I'm smart enough to do it. But I am curious if I personally could do it. Argue before a judge, and antagonize court staff to figure out what needs to be filed, and how. All depending on the scale and stakes of the case.

Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation

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post #13

Back in the day I used to do quite a lot of Macromedia Flash work. It’s uncannily similar but a modern take. I’ve often wondered why no one has come up with a new product in this space. I think the long term demise of Flash has put off anyone even trying. There are so many great uses for animations on the web, even if we don’t need full blown user interfaces of them and intro screens like we did back in 2002. Great j…

IMO, Flash died because it didn't play nice with the conventions of the web. There were workarounds, but generally it broke all of the things HTML could do, like being searchable & selectable, navigable with a keyboard, built of code you could inspect, addressable with a direct link, even working with the browser's back button. The actual animations and (sometimes) beautiful interfaces were not the problem. People ge…

There's a correlation between the death of Flash and the rise of mobile devices browsing. Flash was pixel-based and the whole paradigm doesn't really work for responsiveness.
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