by nexthash on 2/14/21, 3:50 AM
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.
by loteck on 2/13/21, 10:29 PM
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.
by lousken on 2/14/21, 3:39 AM
> 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
by coolandsmartrr on 2/14/21, 3:46 AM
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.
by tedyoung on 2/13/21, 9:14 PM
No Firefox support. :(
by tangentstorm on 2/13/21, 10:16 PM
You need some kind of documentation or a video demonstration. It's not at all obvious how to make an animation with this.
by solarkraft on 2/14/21, 12:34 PM
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/).
by pwillia7 on 2/14/21, 12:37 AM
This is awesome thanks for posting. I managed to make some mean cartoon videos for some friends.
by forgingahead on 2/14/21, 8:26 AM
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.
by mavci on 2/13/21, 11:03 PM
It's remind me the times when I was playing with Macromedia Flash MX
by erichocean on 2/13/21, 10:36 PM
Inbetweening is itself an art, I'm pretty skeptical it can be done well for characters. Maybe for hard objects, sometimes.
by jzemeocala on 2/13/21, 11:14 PM
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
by smoldesu on 2/13/21, 10:17 PM
Shame it doesn't work on Firefox, I'd love to try it out. Maybe someday.