the discussion on layers and masking reminds me of Gimp, did you take any inspiration from it?
Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser
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#12This looks like a really full-featured and powerful animation tool! The tutorial movie was very impressive. The gallery[0] has some good looking examples, but they all run very slowly (1fps) in both chrome/firefox on my MBP. Not sure why performance is so poor on my machine. One thing I couldn't figure out from the site is what their revenue model/pricing plan is. I saw that guest accounts are active for 15 days, but…
Thanks for the compliments! Not sure about what's causing the fps issues, but we're definitely investigating.
At the moment, there aren't any limitations after you sign in - Animatron is free, and the only difference between a registered account and a guest account is that guests can only create one project (which is only saved for 15 days). Pretty soon we'll be rolling out a few different paid-subscription plans that will offer advanced features and functionality, but there will always be the option for a free account.
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#13Do you have to host in the cloud or can you down load this. Is there a limit to how long the animations can be
everything is in the cloud.
currently there is no limit on the duration
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#14I really like that it's using GWT too! You don't often see much GWT apps these days.
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#15Your browser is too old or not yet supported! And a link to Chrome frame, a retired Google product. Please use feature detection instead of sniffing the browser agent. My browser (IE11) is perfectly capable and supports HTML5 APIs fine (e.g. Canvas 2D).
yep, sorry about that. IE11 support is coming really soon.
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#16the discussion on layers and masking reminds me of Gimp, did you take any inspiration from it?
definitely not layers and masking, may be something else
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#17Your browser is too old or not yet supported! And a link to Chrome frame, a retired Google product. Please use feature detection instead of sniffing the browser agent. My browser (IE11) is perfectly capable and supports HTML5 APIs fine (e.g. Canvas 2D).
i suspect they don't use feature detection because the GWT framework makes it a bit more difficult to do feature detection (its not impossible, but it does work against the "default" way of doing things in GWT).
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#18Wow! This really takes me back to my Flash Animation days. Very cool and slick. I like it.
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#19I'm impressed.
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#20This is very impressive. As someone who has no idea what I'm doing, I was able to make an animation of a circle moving and growing from left to right in 30 seconds without reading the manual or tutorials. This is how user interfaces should be built!