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

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

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Post by lukan »

Closi wrote: post #33
junto wrote: 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…

Totally agree! The major feature missing compared to Flash would be library and component support - i.e. the ability to create reusable animated graphics that you can drag onto the canvas (with infinite nesting). i.e. you can animate a bird with flapping wings, then drag 3 copies onto your sky.

In flash you could also select any element and add a onclick handler. Bam, a button.

Or play a different animation of a subelement on mouseover e.g. bird.flapWings()

And quite some other things ..

This is not a flash replacement and also does not aim to be one.

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

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Post by Closi »

lukan wrote: post #41
Closi wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree! The major feature missing compared to Flash would be library and component support - i.e. the ability to create reusable animated graphics that you can drag onto the canvas (with infinite nesting). i.e. you can animate a bird with flapping wings, then drag 3 copies onto your sky.

In flash you could also select any element and add a onclick handler. Bam, a button. Or play a different animation of a subelement on mouseover e.g. bird.flapWings() And quite some other things .. This is not a flash replacement and also does not aim to be one.

To clarify, I mainly meant the major animation feature that let you do more complex animations compared to this tool.

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

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Post by kylegalbraith »

This is super cool and was very easy to get going. Missing keyboard shortcuts is pretty annoying and would make this even simpler. I hopped in hoping it was like a Google Drawing, which it's pretty close, but the lack of keyboard shortcuts for copying/pasting, selecting all, etc -- makes it hard to move fast.

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

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Post by albert_e »

Closi wrote: post #33
junto wrote: 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…

Totally agree! The major feature missing compared to Flash would be library and component support - i.e. the ability to create reusable animated graphics that you can drag onto the canvas (with infinite nesting). i.e. you can animate a bird with flapping wings, then drag 3 copies onto your sky.

Yes I absolutely loved that.

I wish Microsoft PowerPoint built some of that so we could use it for light weight animations and story telling.

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

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Post by rekado »

justinclift wrote: post #25
lukan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Also, is it Open Source?" No, also: "We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or its terms related to the Services at any time at our discretion." So it is currently free of charge, but may one day contain tracking without warning, or paid membership? The buisness plan (how to make money) is not clear to me. And this would be a major blocker for me to use if for anything serious, when one day I might loose acce…

Yeah. Not being FOSS is a blocker from my point of view as well. Already been through that exercise with Adobe and the Flash ecosystem. No interest at all in a repeat.

Here is a free software animator: https://www.synfig.org/

Development is kinda slow, but this also means that it still works just as well as when I made a little short movie 15 years ago.

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

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Post by cududa »

kylegalbraith wrote: post #43

This is super cool and was very easy to get going. Missing keyboard shortcuts is pretty annoying and would make this even simpler. I hopped in hoping it was like a Google Drawing, which it's pretty close, but the lack of keyboard shortcuts for copying/pasting, selecting all, etc -- makes it hard to move fast.

This is a ridiculously complex application dude. I’m sure they’ll get to keyboard shortcuts when they get to it

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

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Post by imp0cat »

tamimio wrote: post #47

Slightly off topic: What are the tools for making animations in the webpage, in html/canvas format not embedded videos? Sometimes I see some sites with nifty animations that animate while scrolling too and I wonder how it’s done.

Do you mean scrolljacking?
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