thegoodman
Creative
web animation
SHOW HN2012
271points
95comments
#48of 1,677 in 2012
Top 3%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
17 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 23 critical, out of 55 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Performance: 2 for, 14 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive, beautiful CSS3 animation work
From 3 comments
Firstly, this is fantastic. Really beautiful work and you've reframed what I thought was possible with CSS animations. The CSS is remarkably economical and I notice that you…
kitx on HNMost animation designers couldn't do this well in flash or something similar! Incredibly well-done.
lemcoe9 on HNWow. Impressive.
asc76 on HN
Economical CSS and few dependencies
From 1 comment
Firstly, this is fantastic. Really beautiful work and you've reframed what I thought was possible with CSS animations. The CSS is remarkably economical and I notice that you…
kitx on HN
Objections
Browser lockups in Firefox
From 3 comments
Don't try to open this page with Noscript enabled in Firefox - it locks up the browser. I'm guessing that without the javascript to control the CSS, everything runs amok. Seems…
RyanZAG on HNI don't have NoScript and opening the page still made Firefox lock up. Flagged the submission because of that.
Hopka on HNIt crashed immediately on my browser (Firefox 17 on Win7).
saint-loup on HN
Poor performance and choppy frame rate on some machines
From 2 comments
Film is the high bar: The very best we can do with virtually infinite time and resources. You're totally ignoring the fact that we've got near film-quality, interactive 3D…
snprbob86 on HNIt's not enough to say that it runs smoothly for most of the animation. It should run smoothly for virtually every second of the animation. I have a computer that beats yours…
beering on HN
Audio sync fails on mobile Safari and Android
From 3 comments
@podrivo, looks cool. The audio never syncs up on mobile Safari though
geuis on HNWithout the intention to lessen what you did ... it's pretty laggy on my Galaxy Nexus in the default android browser. But cool stuff indeed.
DoubleMalt on HNIt's not ready for mobile... Audio gets unsynced and animations aren't smooth. :/
podrivo on HN
Only works well in Chrome
From 2 comments
>You should try it on Chrome And people ask me why I keep calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer.
tarabukka on HNBecause developing sites that work only in Chrome is similar to how sites used to be tailored to IE users. If we're all about interoperability and openness, having something that…
gchucky on HN
Requests
Add a progress indicator
From 1 comment
If I could make a suggestion for multimedia sequences like this, it would be to include some kind of progress indicator. When watching a video, it's always reassuring to be able…
charlieok on HN
Support for other browsers such as Opera
From 1 comment
i agreed. but this is an exception. its a experiment... as much as I want, this site will not work in opera. at least for now. :/
podrivo on HN
Questions
How the keyframing and timing were done
From 1 comment
Firstly, this is fantastic. Really beautiful work and you've reframed what I thought was possible with CSS animations. The CSS is remarkably economical and I notice that you…
kitx on HN
Who the vocalist is
From 1 comment
This was good. Who is the vocalist? Sounds like Michael Caine to me.
19_ploT on HN
Alternatives named
Radi
From 1 comment
I've been making a HTML5 animation app called Radi: http://radiapp.com It's a free download. (Mac only, at least for now -- there's a rudimentary Windows port that I'm hoping to…
pavlov on HN
Adobe Edge
From 1 comment
Edge: http://html.adobe.com/edge A5: http://www.a5-animator.com Hippo: http://hippostudios.co.uk Sencha Animator: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator Motion Composer:…
ryanac on HN
Flash
From 1 comment
My first thought: Nice, well done, very clean, but compared to the stuff that was being done in Flash in 2001, the bar has been lowered so substantially it's as though Flash had…
cnp on HN
Tumult Hype
From 1 comment
Edge: http://html.adobe.com/edge A5: http://www.a5-animator.com Hippo: http://hippostudios.co.uk Sencha Animator: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator Motion Composer:…
ryanac on HN