Hello world (in case this helps anyone):
I drew a circle on the canvas. I hit the plus button in the bottom left twice, to create a new board.
Selecting the new board, I moved the circle to another location on the canvas, and I clicked the save disk on that new board. I hit the play button.
The site animated my circle being moved from its location on the first board, to the location I placed it on the second board.
Edit: Using the hamburger menu, I exported it and downloaded my animation as a .webm video.
> Bestsnip Animation Studio relies on the Webm VP9 video codec. Please use chrome or a chromium based browser to view this website.
how is vp9 a problem? it's been working for years in firefox
IIRC, Disney was investing heavily into computing starting in the 90s, including inbetweening automation. Even John Lasseter promoted computer-generated imageries as a way to reallocate animators' time from "gruntwork" to more creative processes.
In Japan, most of animation still involves paper. Inbetweening is treated more as a craft, and the best animators still do inbetweening for top-of-the-industry projects like for Studio Ghibli and Studio Khara.
No Firefox support. :(
You need some kind of documentation or a video demonstration. It's not at all obvious how to make an animation with this.
The website seems to suggest that Firefox doesn't support VP9, but my research suggests that it supports it since 2013-12-06 (https://www.webmproject.org/vp9/).
This is awesome thanks for posting. I managed to make some mean cartoon videos for some friends.
Nice, reminds me of discovering Macromedia Flash 3 and trying out their "Tweening" feature. The good old days when the "tech stack" were things like Macromedia Flash and Paintshop Pro.
It's remind me the times when I was playing with Macromedia Flash MX
Inbetweening is itself an art, I'm pretty skeptical it can be done well for characters. Maybe for hard objects, sometimes.
this reminds me of an old XP-era program i had in the late 90s. every now and then I try looking for that program but can never find it (I thought it was called morpheus or something similar).
Anyways, i have something fun and nostalgic to play with for tonight
Shame it doesn't work on Firefox, I'd love to try it out. Maybe someday.
It is a shame that this only supports Chrome/Chromium. As I'm not willing to take the performance and privacy hits, I won't bother with this application until the necessary technical fixes are made. No matter how small of a group we are, Firefox/Safari users should be taken into consideration and could be the best advocates for your animation service.