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

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Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, and share motion graphics and svg animations with a free built-in powerful editor which is a fusion of Adobe Illustrator and animation tools.

Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
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This is awesome. Great job! I love the simplicity of the whole thing. I was able to figure out the tool in a minute. Compare that to professional software, which can have a scary complexity. I think it'd be a great educational tool. Kids would love to experiment with it.

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Like Macromedia Director? I remember creating tcp ip network flow animations with that one.

I came here to say the exact same thing, it remind me to Macromedia Flash animations.

Yes, very much reminds me of that -- this looks great!

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This looks awesome.

Some suggestions though:

- Would be awesome to be able to open an existing animation (eg. like any of the ones showcased). It's a built overwhelming for a noobie opening up to a blank editor page.

- Could also consider putting a tutorial video

Anyways I'll have to play around with this.

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Like Macromedia Director? I remember creating tcp ip network flow animations with that one.

I'm not familiar with Macromedia Director. So I did a quick search and find that both tools can do a basic positions, scale, rotation and color animation just by creating shapes and keyframes within few clicks and draggings.

Trangram, however, is more than that, it supports (1) morphing between two shapes (actually any shapes you can create or imagine) without extra efforts (2) motion path, which means you can define an arbitrary route and let your object move along that path easily (3) parent link, which means linked object can move, rotate and scale together

There're many more exciting features I don't mention here, you can check them from Trangram about page below.

https://www.trangram.com/about

Thanks so much for your comment and letting me know about Macromedia Director.

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Like Macromedia Director? I remember creating tcp ip network flow animations with that one.

I came here to say the exact same thing, it remind me to Macromedia Flash animations.

It still exists. Macromedia Flash became Adobe Flash became Adobe Animate: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/animate.html

Nice to see some free alternatives popping up.

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