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Spirit.js – easily animate objects on the web
- jessedhillon 11y agoSeems strongly inspired by Macromedia Flash/Studio, the authoring application for creating Flash animations.
- ben174 11y agoSomething tells me this isn't going to be free. Although the landing page might leave you with the idea that is.
- krat0sprakhar 11y agoThe website (features section) says that the library will be open-source.
- fcoury 11y agoIt says the API will be open source, so maybe the tool itself won't. We'll see...
- ztratar 11y agoThe ghosts are cute.
- seivan 11y agoI wish something like this existed as a desktop app to output animation spritesheets from drawings. The only application that works on Mac OS that does that is Flash. You can draw something, make it "tween" to a new position/rotation/size etc and output .pngs.
- veli_joza 11y agoThere is Spine and Spriter. They both support what you want (and much more).
- mbrock 11y agoThat's a beautiful landing page. Kudos.
- dang 11y agoThis will make for an excellent HN post once people can actually try it. Landing pages with email signups aren't a great fit for this site, though this is an impressive one.
- XCSme 11y agoSo you can export as GIFs? That would be cool, but I am skeptic. LE: I say this because the animations on the site are gifs, and I assumed that they were made with spiritjs itself.
- callahad 11y agoStrange that all of the animations under "Features" are gifs, and not actually animated by spirit.js.
- XCSme 11y agoYeah, that's what I said. Maybe the tool has an export as GIF feature, which would make it awesome :)
- hacker_9 11y agoLooks pretty sweet. I can't see much use case for it though to be honest. Animation's while reading is distracting, but maybe it could be useful for some interactive tutorial.
- eccstartup 11y agoI am curious about how soon not how easy.
- ConAntonakos 11y agoThis is so excellent and looks fun. I'm really unconfident with my web animating abilities, and I feel I can learn a lot from this project! Thanks!