Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
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Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#2Hi HN,
This idea has been a dream of mine for years [0]. As a web developer, I never learned After Effects or any other complex animation software.
But I've always dreamed of creating interactive demos and animations just by using my natural mouse movements. It just feels right.
So last week I took a few days off from my main project to create Animatize [1], a proof-of-concept showing off the idea of using natural movement to create an animation.
I'd love to know what you think.
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#3That's pretty cool. I always thought animation making should look like this, not million of layers and dots. GJ!
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#4Hi HN, This idea has been a dream of mine for years [0]. As a web developer, I never learned After Effects or any other complex animation software. But I've always dreamed of creating interactive demos and animations just by using my natural mouse movements. It just feels right. So last week I took a few days off from my main project to create Animatize [1], a proof-of-concept showing off the idea of using natural mo…
What a cool project. You can really fit a lot of concepts into such a refined approach to animation. Thank you for sharing your result with us, I hope you are having fun with it too.
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#5This is great. Do you have plans to expand the controls or animation options? For example, adding pauses, or additional animation types like scale or rotate. Thanks for sharing this project.
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#6Love it, but this needs to be able to output GIFs I can easily copy and share on slack, etc. (Unless I missed out how to do that entirely?)
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#7amazing tool - loving it so far
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#8Didn't you also start doing 31 launches in January? How's that been going? I see animatize is one of your projects.
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#9Remindes me of the video Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor.
Re: Show HN: Create animations by dragging an element with your mouse
#10This is what ergonomics looks like. Even small children can convey the movement of actors through space using similar techniques. It's an extremely natural way to communicate how something moves. But we have lost that basic idea in favor of very precise animation tools and the complexity that comes with them.