Animation

[sly]

With the speed of alchemy, and its uncanny ability to force you to work quickly it creates interesting silhouettes and being an animator the ability to animate within alchemy would be awesome. I don't know how much work it would entail, I can only imagine a lot more than a little, but the alternative using copy and paste into photoshop makes the longest part of the animation process in this case timing everything out in imageready.

Any functionality that would allow alchemy to act like a very basic form of easytoon would make animating with alchemy a lot faster. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... bd3c16a1c5
Googled easytoon ^_^


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And the first prototype I made for animating in alchemy was a ton of fun. Any way to do that without a lot of copy and paste would be awesome, either way it won't be stopping me from doing it. Alchemy is made of wonderful happy accidents, but without an easier way to inbetween frames I can't make the animations as good as they could be or as fast.

I also fully understand that animation is not the point of alchemy, but I don't know how to hack anything in there myself so I'm putting it out there.

[Karl DD]

I think we could do something with regard to how Alchemy saves 'sessions'.
I realise that having a whole bunch of shapes in a PDF file is not ideal for everyone.
For example having a 'film strip' or 'contact sheet' layout in bitmap would be nice.

For animation these could also be individual PNG files.
Because of the myriad of choices for exporting to moving image and the crap support Java has for multimedia, it is not so easy to save say a .avi or .mov file.

Nice idea and nice example.
Look forward to seeing more of what you animate.

[nop]

An onion skin system will be soooooo nice.
Of course animating is not the main purpose of alchemy... but it will be soooo nice that i say it twice
No need to export avi or mpg or any video format, png jpg or pdf will be ok.
But yeah to draw some rough animation with alchemy will be so powerfull !!!