Just wanted to give a feature suggestion of adding a way to start the animator from existing designs. Kind of "fork" or "remix" for existing ones, opening the editor with the existing design pre-loaded. I think that would be incredible network power and cool to learn the tool.
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
#82Back 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…
I think this might be right up your alley, along with some of the children comments:
https://rive.app
It’s pretty much modern Macromedia Flash. Except a JS runtime, rather than plugin.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#83One quick comment: I was threatened and on the brink of being sued by one of Facebook's bigger law firms, because my domain was called "***gram.com" — I went through a couple of calls with them, and they confirmed that the only issue was the use of the word "gram". I tried to stick to my guns, knowing they had nothing (legally) on me, but eventually had to give in once they told me to research the ongoing cases they…
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.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#84One quick comment: I was threatened and on the brink of being sued by one of Facebook's bigger law firms, because my domain was called "***gram.com" — I went through a couple of calls with them, and they confirmed that the only issue was the use of the word "gram". I tried to stick to my guns, knowing they had nothing (legally) on me, but eventually had to give in once they told me to research the ongoing cases they…
We built a system where the big players don't care if they are in the right.
The massive investments necessary to uphold the rights in front of court are what makes it possible for Meta to get through with this BS.
I am not sure if this is a problem that mainly manifests in the USA. I haven't heard of private parties or small companies shying back of a court case when they believe they are in the right in Europe.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#85Looks 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…
To be honest, depending on how many tools/features you want to add, that would be a very big project for a solo developer. You'd need to build all of that functionality yourself. You detect where the user is pointing/clicking, then draw the element they are creating as visual feedback, then once done, persist the element somewhere. If a user clicks on the element again, somehow display that it is selected and display…
I am not necessarily looking to build something production. Just want to learn. Any pointers?
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#86It passed my first test: "Type hello world and make it bounce for 5 seconds."
The second test is: "save it as a gif" I could not do that because I need to create an account. I am weary of sites that lock in my work. Perhaps it would be a good hook-and-reel method to allow one grace save to ensure that what people create in an anonymous trial can be used somewhere else.
All my kids and I know how to use Paint Tool Sai because I trusted the software with our work. It was affordable and ran locally. Great site. I'll pass the word around.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#87> Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
That makes me think of Flash.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But yet they leave https://telegram.org/ alone for some reason.
Weird that an American company would claim the word "gram". Thought they hate the metric system. /s
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. For all the hate the Flash player got back in the day, the authoring software (which was Macromedia Flash when I last used it) was awesome. It has really nice motion interpolation (tweening) and onion-skinning tools. For Western animation this meant you didn’t need to outsource all the in-between work.
Re: Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
#90Opening the website with Firefox 123.0.1 on Windows 10 x64, the webpage slowed my browser to a crawl. After a quick look into it, it seems it didn't play well with the Angular Devtools extension[1]; you might want to look into it.
Interesting tool nonetheless!
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/angular-devtools