One of my projects to build a fully standards-based, online, collaborative, web-based animation suite. Its original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool, primed to support Animated GIFs, SWF (Flash), SVG Animations, and more. It is currently built using Javascript and PHP. Yes I know that the name isn’t the most creative thing ever, and also isn’t the most accurate name ever (There is almost no actual XMLHttpRequests going on there, most of the stuff is client-side and saving/opening is done through a POST into an <iframe>).
The new Ajax Animator version 0.2 was launched on Sunday, August 8, 2008, with this post.
Newer and Old Screenshots. Video Introduction (Gadget UI). Wave State Demo. User Made Introduction (Standard UI)
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VectorEditor Based Versions: Standard UI OR Gadget UI (new) OR Google Wave Gadget (new, must have Google Wave)
An early development screenshot.
Not yet.
Hi. Is it possible to download your application in order to use it even when I’m not able to connect the internet?
thanks
Yes, you can download it from SVN or Google Code at http://ajaxanimator.googlecode.com/
I’m very excited to see this! I’m a Biology teacher that will be requiring my students to make flash animations of the concepts we’re learning…
Are there any tutorials or resources that can give me an overview of Ajax so I can start using it this August?
You can find some documentation on the manual: http://brwainer.110mb.com/ajaxanimator/manual/index.php There isn’t too much to the application. You draw by selecting tools and drawing with them, to change the color of things, you select and manipulate the settings on the bottom of the left panel. You can go to different frames and use the select tool to manipulate it and the application will automatically generate the frames in between. Many concepts are shared between this application and other apps like Flash, one major difference is that the ajax animator automatically creates keyframes while flash needs it done manually.
tried it on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081216 Fedora/2.0.0.19-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.19 and I only get half a picture. the canvas seems to only display the top part of the animation. resizing my window so that canvas ends up near the bottom of my browser window gets me more, but never more than about half the image.
hope this helps.
This application looks great. I’m working with an inner-city school and the kids have little access to paid software. i think this will help a lot!
I don’t understand the user function and it’s not documented. Is there a server, accounts etc I need to set up?
If you want to install it on your own server, you can just upload all the files from SVN to a PHP enabled server, or you could just use the application from here which requires no setup.
There isnt much interface to describe, its feature set is quite small so there isn’t much to describe. Shapes are drawn using the tools in the left panel. The timeline on the top or bottom (depending on version) allows you to go to different frames. After going to a frame, the select tool can be used to move, resize, or rotate shapes, and the application automatically “tweens” or calculates the position of the transitional shapes by interpolating the first and second frames.
Does this software support voice/sound? AKA does the animations need to be mute or is there a way to include some sounds?
I would like to implement it somehow, but I just have no idea how to implement it.
A scene later, their soft, cooing voices and warm shoulder rubs or knee squeezes represent that glowing honeymoon phase right after making up. ,
The split is of course awkward at best. ,
If I load this URL ( http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator ) on my Nokia N95 default web browser it gets as far as the graphic that says “Ajax Animator (CR) Initializing”, the previous sections seem to load OK.
I installed the Skyfire Browser ( http://www.skyfire.com/ ) on my N95 and the Ajax Animator program looks like it works correctly. It is quite hard to see
What is currently happening with Ajax Animator?
When will we get next version?
Will there be new features or is it mostly infrastructure for future additions?
The next version will have VectorEditor replaced (at least partially) with SVG-edit.
Do you plan on implementing a ctrl+mouse move to bend lines? Would be a useful addon.
Curves don’t work in VectorEditor, but the next version, based on svg-edit should support it.