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Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by skavish »

bunkat wrote: post #90

The tool looks great and everything was really well done, but who is the customer for this? It seemed like it was for non-designers but when I open the editor I get a blank canvas and I have absolutely no idea where to start to make a professional looking animation. Seems like I would still need to hire a visual designer/graphic artist who would most likely use the tools they are already familiar with.

yeah, you are right. we will be adding lots of stuff to make it much easier for non-designer, libraries of ready to use artwork, characters, clips, sounds, effects etc.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by squared9 »

yangcanvas wrote: post #52

Really nice work. A flash-like canvas animation is due gain popularity in the near future. Your fill-bucket tool is a little freezy, as I'm sure you are aware. I made an HTML5 static image editor http://yangcanvas.com/paint and I found a good fill-bucket tool hard to implement too. Your tools does fill ranges perfectly, which is really nice. Good luck making that work more efficiently without sacrificing precision as…

The original Java code for bucket fill is very fast, sub-second fills in most cases however after converting the code to JavaScript the performance gets worse in some specific cases (Bezier offsetting/flattening combined with Boolean operations for non-closed or transparent shapes). There are some advanced math and algorithmic tricks used in the Lasso tool to speed up exactly the same class of problematic cases in JavaScript. Bucket fill is however more complex which doesn't allow straightforward reuse of these algorithms; additional algorithms are currently being developed to deal with it.

Good luck with your nice paint app! ;-)

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by skavish »

cromwellian wrote: post #62
chii wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

The new JsInterop stuff we're adding to GWT 3.0 will make it a lot easier.

we are really looking forward to GWT 3.0. thanks for all the work you put into it!

but we are really sad devmode will be gone really soon :(

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by johnbm »

jggonz wrote: post #54
muyuu wrote: post #49

Looks interesting but an authoring tool is not something I want to run "in the cloud" and be dependant on a connection and a service that may or may not be there when I need it. Wouldn't invest much time in a tool that is not available for download, to be honest. Nevertheless it looks well done.

Slightly off-topic... Sorry. If you don't mind me asking, what country are you from? I ask because I find this strange, since here in the San Francisco bay area, I find it difficult to get 'away' from an internet connection. They're everywhere I go, whether I want it or not. I carry an internet connection on my smartphone and can tether to it whenever I need it. The only time I can't get an internet connection is whe…

And this is why anyone sane who doesn't live there hates your smug filter bubble, and why Android is still a pain to use once you go out of signal range.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by carizan »

vram22 wrote: post #89
carizan wrote: post #88

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Cool, thanks! Here's the embed code:

Thanks for the fast response. Will write the post and update the comment here with the link to it. BTW, typo in your embed code: missing an "http:" in the value of the src attribute. Works after I add that, not without it.

Strange about the embed code - that's how Vimeo provides it, so it's weird that it didn't work for you, but great that you managed to make it work in the end! Looking forward to reading the post :)

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by carizan »

MarcScott wrote: post #92

It's so refreshing to see a service that requires no signup. Normally a signup acts as a barrier to entry for me, especially when it requires a link to a social media identity. I'm going to have a play around now.

Yeah, required signup is a pet peeve for most (all?) of us on the Animatron team as well.

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by rogerbinns »

bsimpson wrote: post #23

I was really excited to try it after watching your cartoon demo, but this is all I see when I open the editor in ChromeOS 34: http://i.imgur.com/yuJzv6p.png

Yes, I was wondering what was going on. A vast expanse of white and no actual tools or anything else. I'm using regular Chrome on Linux. I don't even get as much UI as you do! http://imgur.com/bHLKAsv

Re: Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser

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Post by vram22 »

carizan wrote: post #97
vram22 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the fast response. Will write the post and update the comment here with the link to it. BTW, typo in your embed code: missing an "http:" in the value of the src attribute. Works after I add that, not without it.

Strange about the embed code - that's how Vimeo provides it, so it's weird that it didn't work for you, but great that you managed to make it work in the end! Looking forward to reading the post :)

No problem :) Anyway, here's the post:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/the-html5lib-python-librar...

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