New Product Idea: Affinity Animate

[Stargazer49]

Affinity makes a fairly decent line of products that are quite affordable compared to the other major competitors in the market. However when it comes to animation, Adobe and other subscription based programs are still in the lead. The only well-known free animation application is Blender, is confusing to use. If Affinity gets its own animation program, people will finally have a reason to stop using adobe. Of course there are things you can do in Illustrator that you can't do in Affinity Designer, but an animation program that only requires a reasonable one-time payment instead of an expensive subscription will definitely make up for that. I haven't been able to come up with an idea for the logo design yet, but the [current] colors for the logo will be:

#77E1B0 (Main)

#4BCC83 (Accent)

Anyways, feel free to comment down below and share suggestions you have about/for Affinity Animate. I will update this post once I come up with a possible logo design, new color scheme, and or name change.

[Old Bruce]

Affinity never says never, but I will put money on "It is not going to happen".

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Affinity never says never

I thought that Animation was one case where they had said "we have no plans to do this", which is stronger than most other requests where they say "we'd like to" or "perhaps someday".

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I thought that Animation was one case where they had said "we have no plans to do this", which is stronger than most other requests where they say "we'd like to" or "perhaps someday".

You’re not wrong, Walt.

 

[William Overington]

I support the idea for having Affinity Animate.

I opine that it would be good for Affinity Animate to be based on vector graphics animation and if possible only on changes from one frame to the next so as to keep file size as small as possible.

Animation files that are huge present problems for peop;e who have personal webspaces.

Serif has previously produced, in Serif PagePlus, the capability to produce vector-based slide shows as PDF slide shows.

Could Affinity Animate produce animations that could be run in Adobe Reader as slide shows, with the possibilirty of full screen display, that move quickly and automatically from frame to frame?

@Stargazer49 Please don't be held back or discouraged references by comments made over seven years ago. Time moves on. Innovation is important.  I remember when I, and at least one other person, suggested including OpenType support in the then anticipated PagePlus X3. It did not happen, no feedback, no explanation or anything. However, OpenType support appeared in PagePlus X5, and done superbly well. Maybe Affinity Animate will never be produced, but very often in the world at large, new ideas get dismissed, sometimes ridiculed, for a while, then happen and become mainstream. It is very easy for peope to leap on a bandwagon of dismissing new ideas, but so what, that is a matter for them.

William

[Pšenda]

On 3/3/2022 at 9:57 AM, William Overington said:

dismissing new ideas

I don't think it's a rejection of new ideas, but a real consideration of the capabilities of a company that develops three different applications for three different platforms in a highly competitive environment, which in itself is quite a challenging task. So adding more and more applications to the portfolio, for which there will not be enough capacity - see, for example, the DAM requested and previously promised by many users, would be just an irresponsible step.

[artokmt]

If animation comes future, I would like to see it in Designer. Why it needs to be separate software. 

[William Overington]

18 hours ago, Pšenda said:

... see, for example, the DAM requested and previously promised by many users, would be just an irresponsible step.

What is that please and where can one see it?

William

 

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, William Overington said:

What is that please and where can one see it?

Type the word DAM into the forum Search box and press Enter.

[William Overington]

I have had a look and people keep saying they want one, no promise has been made, etc, but every post looked at so far just uses the three letters underlined for some reason but i have not yet found, if it is anabbreviation, of what it is an abbreviation, nor what it is.

It is like if someone were to write about Affinity and PDF without ever writing Portable Document Format or explaing what it is or why it is used.

William

 

[Pšenda]

2 minutes ago, William Overington said:

 just uses the three letters underlined for some reason

Try point mouse to this.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, William Overington said:

I have had a look and people keep saying they want one, no promise has been made, etc, but every post looked at so far just uses the three letters underlined for some reason but i have not yet found, if it is anabbreviation, of what it is an abbreviation, nor what it is.

The summary shown to me for the third result of the search shows this: 

Quote

This sounds like you are requesting a DAM (Digital Asset Manager)

 

[Pšenda]

6 minutes ago, William Overington said:

no promuse has been made

There is a lot of thread on the topic on the forum - but they are more historical, because the work on DAM has apparently stalled.

 

[William Overington]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

The summary shown to me for the third result of the search shows this: 

 

Well, I just tried again and that is near the top. Either the search before didn't show it in that position or I did not notice it.

So there we are.

William

 

[Stargazer49]

On 3/3/2022 at 3:57 AM, William Overington said:

I support the idea for having Affinity Animate.

I opine that it would be good for Affinity Animate to be based on vector graphics animation and if possible only on changes from one frame to the next so as to keep file size as small as possible.

Animation files that are huge present problems for peop;e who have personal webspaces.

Serif has previously produced, in Serif PagePlus, the capability to produce vector-based slide shows as PDF slide shows.

Could Affinity Animate produce animations that could be run in Adobe Reader as slide shows, with the possibilirty of full screen display, that move quickly and automatically from frame to frame?

@Stargazer49 Please don't be held back or discouraged references by comments made over seven years ago. Time moves on. Innovation is important.  I remember when I, and at least one other person, suggested including OpenType support in the then anticipated PagePlus X3. It did not happen, no feedback, no explanation or anything. However, OpenType support appeared in PagePlus X5, and done superbly well. Maybe Affinity Animate will never be produced, but very often in the world at large, new ideas get dismissed, sometimes ridiculed, for a while, then happen and become mainstream. It is very easy for peope to leap on a bandwagon of dismissing new ideas, but so what, that is a matter for them.

William

For clarification, Affinity Animate will focus [solely] on 2D animation.

[Old Bruce]

On 3/11/2022 at 9:18 AM, Stargazer49 said:

For clarification, Affinity Animate will focus [solely] on 2D animation.

For further clarification; Affinity Animate will most likely never happen.

[Stargazer49]

Since V2 was just released I'm wondering if they're outlook on animation programs have changed. Perhaps someday, probably a long time from now, Affinity Animate, or whatever it would be called, would be released.

[Stargazer49]

Possible Names

Affinity Animate (Default)

Affinity Motion

Affinity Move

Affinity Film

Affinity Filmer

Affinity Movie

Affinity Flix ( a take on the word "flicks" as in "movie flicks")

[William Overington]

Well done.

William

 

[debraspicher]

Maybe when they get scripting support, someone can write a plugin... then they can do a deal...

@Stargazer49 Love the ava btw

[Stargazer49]

I have an alternative to the animation problem, instead of creating a new program, Serif could add an animation persona to Affinity Designer. However, Affinity Flix is still a better idea, as it would have more functionality/features compared to a persona. At the same time, people with an art program other than Affinity Designer, might not want to buy another art program only to use it's animation tools/software.

 

Note: I'm sticking with Affinity Flix now.