Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by davidw on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @11:36AM
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I'm currently reading a book, 'The Black Swan', that talks about randomness, and I have to say... I didn't wake up this morning thinking that I would create a cartoony animation subsequently featured on PG's web site.
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by palish on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @03:17AM
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Looks awesome! Out of curiosity, why can't a user upload a sound or image and use it in their cartoon? If you're worried about NSFW issues, you can always use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mark a sound or image as NSFW.
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by seekely on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @08:16AM
(#40037)
User upload will be coming in the near future. At least for images. For now, we wanted to push out something that was dead simple and involved as few steps to create something as possible.
On another note, our more powerful and feature rich online music animator, currently in the works, completely revolves around user created and uploaded content.
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by seekely on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @12:16PM
(#40102)
Completely agree. While keyframing may never make it into Mini-vid (maybe a quiet advanced feature?), it will most certainly be in our complete music animator product (which we really need to decide on a name for :) )
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by brett on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @03:12PM
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The more I play with it and think about it the more impressed I am. The level of user constraint is spot on. You are constrained enough that it's super simple to use but there's plenty to play with for a long time.
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by seekely on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @12:18PM
(#40103)
Heh. Yes it currently requires Flash 9 and we have zero checking for upgrades. Right now, we are under the horrible assumption that more or likely you have been to YouTube, which requires Flash 9. That will be fixed by the end of the day. Sorry about that oversight!
Re:The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)
by far33d on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @10:47AM
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Wow. This is great. I was just (yesterday) thinking about how there are no user accessible animation tools out there. There's a long way to go, but this is a wonderful start.
http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400
On another note, our more powerful and feature rich online music animator, currently in the works, completely revolves around user created and uploaded content.
You are my new favorite website for when I'm too tired to code yet too wired to sleep...
Thank you!
Congrats.