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

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Post by niklasrde »

junto wrote: post #13

Back 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…

Airbnb's Lottie has a Web Player now I think? Make your animation in AE or Figma, export to "Lottie JSON" with players in JS, Swift, Kotlin & React Native.

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

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Post by thisislife2 »

Disappointed that this is a web application. But great work. The user interface is very intuitive and easy to use.

Feature request: Add 'Export to JPEG-XL' option (JPEGXL - https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html . See also - FFmpeg Adds Support for Animated JPEG-XL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36243889 ).

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

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Post by MyFedora »

Why compare Tangram to Adobe Illustrator when Adobe offers animation software in their suite? Adobe After Effects does motion graphics. Adobe Animate does animations for the web, or so I heard. How is Tangram closer to Illustrator than After Effects or Animate?

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

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jarek-foksa wrote: post #60
illwrks wrote: post #57

I’ve not looked at the tool, but are animations driven by CSS, and if so do you embed the CSS into the SVG? Where I work we’re looking at SVG animation tools for some graphics and the majority appear to be lottie-like tools dependent on JavaScript and other plugins which we can’t use.

For pure SVG-based animations you should take a look at Boxy SVG: https://boxy-svg.com/blog/21

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

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Post by wongarsu »

lukan wrote: post #24
ramraj07 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t adobe animate just flash ?

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.

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Post by noduerme »

mittermayr wrote: post #56

One 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…

Not that I don't believe what you're saying, but how is this a thing they could possibly expect to hold up as a trademark infringement? They literally own a single recently invented neologism of which neither the prefix nor the root is original. It seems to me that Instacart or Insta360 would be much more open to claims... honestly if it were me, I wouldn't hire a lawyer, just let them know to send me a letter what courthouse I should show up at with a dictionary.

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Post by chillingeffect »

noduerme wrote: post #76
mittermayr wrote: post #56

One 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…

Not that I don't believe what you're saying, but how is this a thing they could possibly expect to hold up as a trademark infringement? They literally own a single recently invented neologism of which neither the prefix nor the root is original. It seems to me that Instacart or Insta360 would be much more open to claims... honestly if it were me, I wouldn't hire a lawyer, just let them know to send me a letter what c…

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

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Post by lovegrenoble »

mittermayr wrote: post #56

One 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.
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