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Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by lectrick on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:33PM (#7604996)
If you like this sort of thing, and are on a Mac, you have Quartz Composer available, which I find fun to play with and which is actually pretty powerful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer

Among other things, you can make your own screensaver, and have access to various inputs and outputs such as the built in camera, mic, URL's, etc.

Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by kawera on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:57PM (#7605600)
I've been using this QC toolkit for UI prototyping: http://facebook.github.io/origami/ . Works pretty well.
Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by timdorr on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:46AM (#7603889)
Why isn't the first thing I see on the Animatron website an animation made in their own app? http://animatron.com/

Webflow did this with yesterday's post: http://interactions.webflow.com/

Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by skavish on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:03AM (#7604001)
it's coming in new website.

the video on the front page made in animatron http://www.animatron.com/project/6487dd52e5835971c6bec25d

and there are others of course http://www.animatron.com/explore#staff-picks

Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by robmcm on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:45AM (#7604302)
Funny that there is a link in that post back to an original earlier post on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360296

Interesting the team used GWT. I would like to see a post about how they found it, and if they would choose it again for a new project.

Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by skavish on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:24PM (#7604541)
I would use GWT for any big webapp. tooling is way better for java than for js. having the same model on server and on a client is a huge plus as well.
Re:Animatron: HTML5 Animation Editor Inspired by Middle-Scho... by Bojangly2000 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:23PM (#7605338)
Loved the article. I was happy to see something materialize out of GWT too!