Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#1

Post by seekely » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:08 PM UTC

This is Ryan from Fuzzwich. Check out the screencast at http://www.fuzzwich.com/animator if you have not already. The Fuzzwich Animator is the start and the foundation of our new online animation studio. We're very excited by the new focus and look forward to inviting everyone to animate in the near future. We're also very curious to your feedback, so please sound off!

Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator
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Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#2

Post by seekely » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:10 PM UTC

This is Ryan from Fuzzwich. Check out the screencast at http://www.fuzzwich.com/animator if you have not already. The Fuzzwich Animator is the start and the foundation of our new online animation studio. We're very excited by the new focus and look forward to inviting everyone to animate in the near future. We're also very curious to your feedback, so please sound off!

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#3

Post by bfioca » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:19 PM UTC

awesome new look guys, huge evolutionary step. Love the twisp and catsby annimation, too. :)

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

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Post by whyleyc » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:24 PM UTC

seekely wrote: post #2

This is Ryan from Fuzzwich. Check out the screencast at http://www.fuzzwich.com/animator if you have not already. The Fuzzwich Animator is the start and the foundation of our new online animation studio. We're very excited by the new focus and look forward to inviting everyone to animate in the near future. We're also very curious to your feedback, so please sound off!

I really like the colour scheme of the new homepage/site, but have a few observations:

(1) It's not immediately obvious to me what Fuzzwich is and why I should use it - I really think you could benefit from a prominently positioned tagline on the page itself ("Animation for Everyone" is good, but why put it only in the title bar ?)

(2) If your new screencast is a big play you definitely need to sell it more on your homepage - bigger or bold font / more prominence would help

(3) What's with the (wasted ?) space to the left-middle of the page ? This could be put to good use with a big SIGNUP NOW ! style button or maybe a funky image to sell the screencast with.

Just my two pennyworth - Hope some of it helps. You have a cool product - As pg says "Don't give up" :-)

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

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Post by hailpixel » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:28 PM UTC

whyleyc wrote: post #4

seekely wrote: post #2

This is Ryan from Fuzzwich. Check out the screencast at http://www.fuzzwich.com/animator if you have not already. The Fuzzwich Animator is the start and the foundation of our new online animation studio. We're very excited by the new focus and look forward to inviting everyone to animate in the near future. We're also very curious to your feedback, so please sound off!

I really like the colour scheme of the new homepage/site, but have a few observations: (1) It's not immediately obvious to me what Fuzzwich is and why I should use it - I really think you could benefit from a prominently positioned tagline on the page itself ("Animation for Everyone" is good, but why put it only in the title bar ?) (2) If your new screencast is a big play you definitely need to sell it more on your h…

Excellent points. I'll take into consideration immediately. Textmate is go!

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

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Post by iamwil » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:35 PM UTC

I've always liked Fuzzwich, especially the goofy stuff that people come up with, just using the simple tools. I've used it to make birthday "cards" for people.

I can't wait to see a Geico Commerical done with Fuzzwich one day.

Ryan, make it happen!

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#7

Post by shawndrost » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:52 PM UTC

fyi, the favicon is still the old logo

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#8

Post by far33d » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 9:55 PM UTC

Very cool! Glad to see someone trying to bring animation to the masses

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#9

Post by hernan7 » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 10:43 PM UTC

Great site; I always thought that user-generated animation has the possibility to become huge. And being able to create animations from withing the browser... wow!

Like with HTML, it would be great if there was some way of doing "View Source" and be able to build on somebody else's animation.

Re: Fuzzwich (YC summer 07) launches a new look and previews Animator

#10

Post by collision » Wed, Mar 05, 2008, 10:54 PM UTC

Looks really good, like the new direction.

I've a quibble with your screencast though - I can't pause it. It kept stopping and starting to buffer. It'd be much better to be able to stop it like a youtube video and let it load before watching.