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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

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Post by bootload »

Couple of things I've observed

- what is a "portfolio"? I think I know what you mean but it's a bit of a mouthful. Do you need a non shop-talk word to replace it?

- no controls on the playback sample I can't FF or see where in the stream I am. Do your playback mechanisms have controls like say YouTube?

- really like the "Pythonesque" animation in the demo (got a chuckle) can you show "even" more styles as you discover them?

- can you caption? If you can caption you can make comics.

I'd say there is legs in this idea because it's making what "artists" want ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129616

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

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Post by richcollins »

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!

Nice work :)

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

#14

Post by seekely »

collision wrote: post #10

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.

Yeah, we agreed. Switched to a YouTube player.

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

#15

Post by seekely »

hernan7 wrote: post #9

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.

As long as the animation creator allows it, you will be able to work and play around with any published animation you see made from Fuzzwich.

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

#16

Post by seekely »

bootload wrote: post #12

Couple of things I've observed - what is a "portfolio"? I think I know what you mean but it's a bit of a mouthful. Do you need a non shop-talk word to replace it? - no controls on the playback sample I can't FF or see where in the stream I am. Do your playback mechanisms have controls like say YouTube? - really like the "Pythonesque" animation in the demo (got a chuckle) can you show "even" more styles as you discove…

We chose 'Portfolio' because we think the analogy carries well -- Fuzzwich allows you to create a portfolio of animations. We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :).

You can do captions, and the comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into.

Glad you like the styles. We will try to put a few more unique animations up in the near future.

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

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Post by bootload »

seekely wrote: post #16
bootload wrote: post #12

Couple of things I've observed - what is a "portfolio"? I think I know what you mean but it's a bit of a mouthful. Do you need a non shop-talk word to replace it? - no controls on the playback sample I can't FF or see where in the stream I am. Do your playback mechanisms have controls like say YouTube? - really like the "Pythonesque" animation in the demo (got a chuckle) can you show "even" more styles as you discove…

We chose 'Portfolio' because we think the analogy carries well -- Fuzzwich allows you to create a portfolio of animations. We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :). You can do captions, and the comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into. Glad you like the styles. We will try to put a few more unique animations up in the near future.

"... We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :) ..."

Point taken. Flickr has 'sets', 'groups', smugmug 'galleries'. Fuzzwich 'Portfolio'. Are your users used to the terminology?

"... comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into ..."

If you do go take the time to read "Scott McCleod"s "Re-inventing Comics". [0] Scott is a great writer/illustrator (read the book) and covers so much what is wrong in the comics world. There is a gaping hole at the moment being left by technology starved newspapers. [1]

Plenty of room for improvement.

[0] Scott McCloud, ISBN 978006095308 ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/store/store.html

[1] Marvell comes to Facebook ~ http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13246

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

#19

Post by playing_with »

bootload wrote: post #18
seekely wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We chose 'Portfolio' because we think the analogy carries well -- Fuzzwich allows you to create a portfolio of animations. We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :). You can do captions, and the comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into. Glad you like the styles. We will try to put a few more unique animations up in the near future.

"... We also just like the sound of 'Portfolio' better than 'Account' :) ..." Point taken. Flickr has 'sets' , 'groups' , smugmug 'galleries' . Fuzzwich 'Portfolio' . Are your users used to the terminology? "... comic world is one we are very much excited about trying to get into ..." If you do go take the time to read "Scott McCleod"s "Re-inventing Comics" . [0] Scott is a great writer/illustrator (read the book) an…

I wouldn't expect Portfolio" to be the same as Account*. I'd think I'd need an account first before creating a portfolio (which would be a special-purpose collection of videos I've made).
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