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Edge: http://html.adobe.com/edge http://html.adobe.com/edge A5: http://www.a5-animator.com http://www.a5-animator.com Hippo: http://hippostudios.co.uk http://

by ryanac 14y ago

Edge: http://html.adobe.com/edge http://html.adobe.com/edge A5: http://www.a5-animator.com http://www.a5-animator.com Hippo: http://hippostudios.co.uk http://hippostudios.co.uk Sencha Animator: http://www.sencha.com/products/animator http://www.sencha.com/products/animator Motion Composer: http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer Mac Only: Purple: http://www.purpleanimator.com http://www.purpleanimator.com Tumult Hype: http://tumult.com/hype http://tumult.com/hype Online/Cloud Based Tools: Mugeda: https://www.mugeda.com https://www.mugeda.com Blysk: http://bly.sk http://bly.sk

rudasn 14y ago
Thanks for the list. Do you know if any of these supports audio + frame synchronization, the audio being the primary "feature" of the animation?
- pavlov 14y ago
  My Radi app supports audio in the latest release: http://radiapp.com http://radiapp.com
g2e 14y ago
Why aren't web animations more popular due to these apps? Is there something wrong with Edge for example?
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  Real animation is expensive; and there are many trade-offs for working with such an unstable and cpu-dependent technology. Besides; video and Flash are still "good enough" for most use cases (children animated series, educational videos, etc).
- bgilroy26 14y ago
  Unwillingness to appropriate the personnel money (i.e. either hiring people with animating skills or giving a current staff member a raise and having them take on the responsibility of learning to animate) could be a major bottleneck.
- podrivo 14y ago
  these tools are still in development, as well as the technology they are developed to. they are becoming popular. maybe in 2013! (:
neovive 14y ago
You can still download Edge for free since it is still in pre-release. It's sort of a cross between Adobe Flash Professional and After Effects. It definitely has some promise in the web animation front. It's worth a try as it will likely become an industry-standard tool in the near future.
camus 14y ago
Most of these tools are nowhere near what flash can do. Inverse kinematics ? vector drawing ? filters ? advanced interactions ? perfect audio sync ? video integration ?...
- pavlov 14y ago
  Even at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'd like to mention that my Radi animation app supports vector drawing, filters, audio sync, integrated video with effects, and has element and frame level scripting for advanced interactions :) http://radiapp.com http://radiapp.com
  - camus 14y ago
    looks great.
  - ncrit 14y ago
    Looks quite good, but seems buggy on my retina macbook. First time I started it I couldn't click anything. Second time I started it I tried maximizing, which turned the screen white, had to quite again. Now I'll try for a 3rd time... ;-)
  - ncrit 14y ago
    Okay, after starting it for the 3rd time and not maximizing the app I could interact with the gui for a while. But then I clicked on Top-Level-Element Audio and couldn't click anything else anymore afterwards... By the way, trying to resize the window has the same effect like clicking fullscreen: The window area becomes mostly white with some grey rectangles in it. Only fix is to quit...
    - pavlov 14y ago
      Sorry about that! I assure you it's not supposed to do that :) Is your Retina MacBook Pro the 13" model? I wonder if there's an incompatibility with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU. I don't have one for testing, but in the past I've seen quite a few issues related to how Intel's integrated GPUs diverge from the traditional NVIDIA/AMD chips. Could you look in the Console to see if there's something printed when you run the app and things go wrong? This is getting off-topic for a HN thread, so if you have a moment to look into this, please drop me an email: pauli /at/ lacquer dot fi. Thanks!

by ryanac 14y ago

rudasn 14y ago

Thanks for the list. Do you know if any of these supports audio + frame synchronization, the audio being the primary "feature" of the animation?

pavlov 14y ago
My Radi app supports audio in the latest release: http://radiapp.com http://radiapp.com

g2e 14y ago

Why aren't web animations more popular due to these apps? Is there something wrong with Edge for example?

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
Real animation is expensive; and there are many trade-offs for working with such an unstable and cpu-dependent technology. Besides; video and Flash are still "good enough" for most use cases (children animated series, educational videos, etc).
bgilroy26 14y ago
Unwillingness to appropriate the personnel money (i.e. either hiring people with animating skills or giving a current staff member a raise and having them take on the responsibility of learning to animate) could be a major bottleneck.
podrivo 14y ago
these tools are still in development, as well as the technology they are developed to. they are becoming popular. maybe in 2013! (:

neovive 14y ago

You can still download Edge for free since it is still in pre-release. It's sort of a cross between Adobe Flash Professional and After Effects. It definitely has some promise in the web animation front. It's worth a try as it will likely become an industry-standard tool in the near future.

camus 14y ago

Most of these tools are nowhere near what flash can do. Inverse kinematics ? vector drawing ? filters ? advanced interactions ? perfect audio sync ? video integration ?...

pavlov 14y ago
Even at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'd like to mention that my Radi animation app supports vector drawing, filters, audio sync, integrated video with effects, and has element and frame level scripting for advanced interactions :) http://radiapp.com http://radiapp.com
- camus 14y ago
  looks great.
- ncrit 14y ago
  Looks quite good, but seems buggy on my retina macbook. First time I started it I couldn't click anything. Second time I started it I tried maximizing, which turned the screen white, had to quite again. Now I'll try for a 3rd time... ;-)
- ncrit 14y ago
  Okay, after starting it for the 3rd time and not maximizing the app I could interact with the gui for a while. But then I clicked on Top-Level-Element Audio and couldn't click anything else anymore afterwards... By the way, trying to resize the window has the same effect like clicking fullscreen: The window area becomes mostly white with some grey rectangles in it. Only fix is to quit...
  - pavlov 14y ago
    Sorry about that! I assure you it's not supposed to do that :) Is your Retina MacBook Pro the 13" model? I wonder if there's an incompatibility with the Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU. I don't have one for testing, but in the past I've seen quite a few issues related to how Intel's integrated GPUs diverge from the traditional NVIDIA/AMD chips. Could you look in the Console to see if there's something printed when you run the app and things go wrong? This is getting off-topic for a HN thread, so if you have a moment to look into this, please drop me an email: pauli /at/ lacquer dot fi. Thanks!