Animatize
Creative
animation tool
SHOW HN2022
379points
57comments
#93of 2,570 in 2022
Top 4%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
14 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 7 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, quick and effective way to make animations
From 5 comments
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…
themodelplumber on HNThanks a lot. This is as tiny and as productive animations could get. I'm literally tired of opening applications to do small animation pizzaz. Spent more $ on animation creators…
santa_boy on HNThis is really amazing! There's a steep learning curve to do creative work & this is certainly a step in the right direction of WYSIWYG instead of needing to know tool specific…
DarthNebo on HNthanks - love it, nice, simple and effective
123pie123 on HNI love the how quick and easy it gets right to the point
pizzabearman on HN
Reminds commenters of tools like Motion Sketch and Flash-era tools
From 2 comments
FWIW it's called Motion sketch in After effects and it's basically the same thing. It allows you to edit the curve after though.
Keyframe on HNHas anyone tried to create a modern version of Flash / Director? Feels like those tools had already solved these problems nicely 20 years ago.
ricardobeat on HN
Objections
Output is raw JavaScript and hard to share as a GIF
From 2 comments
Love 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?)
Linkd on HNNot OP, but I thought you might be able to use a canvas export, but alas the output is still javascript. My quick hack on a Mac would be QuickTime screen record + ffmpeg :-)
uxamanda on HN
Movement is shaky without smoothing
From 1 comment
This is such a cool project. Quick suggestion: would be nice to have some way of "smoothening" the animations; I think a simple interface for that would make it a lot more usable…
mrhektor on HN
Requests
Export to GIF
From 2 comments
Love 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?)
Linkd on HNThis is really cool. As others have said I'd love to see an option to output a GIF and additional animation options.
sarwech on HN
Smoothing of mouse movement
From 1 comment
This is such a cool project. Quick suggestion: would be nice to have some way of "smoothening" the animations; I think a simple interface for that would make it a lot more usable…
mrhektor on HN
More animation options such as pause, scale and rotate
From 2 comments
This 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…
cuttysnark on HNThis is really cool. As others have said I'd love to see an option to output a GIF and additional animation options.
sarwech on HN
Speed control and SVG support
From 2 comments
SVG would be cool too :)
somishere on HNI want to change the speed. [Edit: Now I see that I can vary the speed in my initial drag.] Have securtiy concerns putting this on my website. Can nasties be hidden in the code?
pdm55 on HN
Questions
Whether animations can be exported as GIF or shared easily
From 1 comment
Love 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?)
Linkd on HN
Whether the embedded code could hide malicious content
From 1 comment
I want to change the speed. [Edit: Now I see that I can vary the speed in my initial drag.] Have securtiy concerns putting this on my website. Can nasties be hidden in the code?
pdm55 on HN
Alternatives named
After Effects Motion Sketch
From 2 comments
FWIW it's called Motion sketch in After effects and it's basically the same thing. It allows you to edit the curve after though.
Keyframe on HNAfter Effects has a feature called "motion sketch" which does this for video. It's a little bit harder to get up and running, though.
dorkwood on HN
Cartooners
From 1 comment
Lovely! This reminds me to Cartooners [1], a related but totally different game/toy that I lost many rainy days to as a kid. It was a DOS Application with a library of scenes and…
micheljansen on HN
OpenShot Video
From 1 comment
This is nice, it reminds me of how OpenShot Video handles animations by default.
ljm on HN