PaulRoskrow Posted July 29, 2014 Posted July 29, 2014 Hi Any chance that Stop Frame animation might become afeature please? Kristinapa, Tonio DG, angelhdz12 and 1 other 4 Quote
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted July 29, 2014 Staff Posted July 29, 2014 Hi, Animation is not on our roadmap at this time, I'm afraid. Every time we / others have tried to do it, it hasn't ended well - I know, I wrote the DrawPlus stop/key frame animation. Bad times :/ The volatility of format also troubles me (spend 2 years making SWF output work, SWF then dies.. etc.) Thanks, AndyS LCamachoDesign 1 Quote
PaulRoskrow Posted July 29, 2014 Author Posted July 29, 2014 Pity, I use Drawplus animation all the time. Quote
Dams Posted August 12, 2014 Posted August 12, 2014 Rah, I was just about to request the same :( More and more design involve animations. Could be a great feature to add. Quote
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 12, 2014 Staff Posted August 12, 2014 Sorry, never going to happen in Affinity Designer.. Not saying there won't be an Affinity product which does animation one day, but if it happens, it won't be anything to do with me :) AndyS Quote
7immer Posted August 20, 2014 Posted August 20, 2014 Sorry to bring this back up... I know this feature isn't planned but with animating UI's becoming an increasing necessity I think it would be nice to implement at least some sort stripped down timeline based animation tool. Maybe you could design the code with this in mind for later implementation? Photoshop has a great implementation of this where your layers turn into layers on the timeline. You can then animate simple effects like transform, opacity, effects etc Showing your animating UI's to clients is become more and more popular as it allows the client to see the animating result before its coded. This saves lots of timely re-coding. Here are some examples from Dribbble.com: Anyway here's to hoping :D Tavlean and Tonio DG 2 Quote
Dale Posted August 20, 2014 Posted August 20, 2014 This is nice work B) Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super
Sam Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 I too would love to have animation support, GIF exporting in the is application. Great animations btw man! they look terrific :D Quote
Sam Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 I too would love to have animation support, GIF exporting in the is application. Great animations btw man! they look terrific :D Maybe even full animation support, that would be cool! With export features like SWF files, and more cause toonboom and animestudio are too expensive! Quote
Staff MEB Posted August 25, 2014 Staff Posted August 25, 2014 I think it's too much bloat for a focused program like Affinity Designer. Unless it's implement as a new persona or even better a totally new program based on the same file format as Affinity. ronniemcbride, angelhdz12, ronnyb and 2 others 5 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
rui_mac Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 If we start asking for too much stuff that is not directly related with the core intent of the application (and Serif decides to add them), we may end up with something like CorelDraw that does a little bit of everything but too little of everything. LCamachoDesign and mikeswarts 2 Quote
Dale Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Affinity Animator could be amazing, better than a bloated Affinity Designer IMO. 000, Joe Free, mikeswarts and 10 others 13 Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super
000 Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Affinity Animator could be amazing, better than a bloated Affinity Designer IMO. Nice idea, but . . . PLEASE finish Photo and Publisher first. ;-) Quote
Staff MEB Posted August 25, 2014 Staff Posted August 25, 2014 I don't think you have to worry about that Jens... Those are coming first for sure. 000 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Dale Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 Jens don't worry, the team are working hard to their plan, I'm just fantasising from the sidelines. Quote Twitter: @Writer_DaleAffinity apps run on: Ryzen 5 3600, 32GB RAM, GTX1650 Super
Kate England Posted August 25, 2014 Posted August 25, 2014 I'd love to see animation too, and agree with others that it would probably be best as a separate app - Affinity Animator! Wilfred Hildonen 1 Quote
Dams Posted August 26, 2014 Posted August 26, 2014 Sorry, never going to happen in Affinity Designer.. Not saying there won't be an Affinity product which does animation one day, but if it happens, it won't be anything to do with me :) AndyS Affinity is announcing Affinity Animator for Mac. Can I tweet it already ? :P More seriously, I think there is almost no good alternative of any animator tool in general. At least on Mac. Same for 3D, but it's a lot bigger ;) Quote
7immer Posted September 18, 2014 Posted September 18, 2014 I'd see the animation tool as being very limited. From a UI / UX perspective (thats all I know) I don't really need a fully fledged and separate animation package. Just something that allows me to visually see how my app I designed in photo or Draw might transition. Something along the lines of the limits of CSS3's translate and transform and opacity would do. As a bonus it would be nice to be able to animate the effects pallet like blur too. *hint hint* Don't get me wrong a full Affinity Motion app: with 3d, motion graphics, film production and audio editing would be legendarily-awesome but that would be be a MASIVE undertaking :D lol *hint hint* I understand though that its important to get a solid and strong foundation with the first 3 personas, especially from a marketing perspective. Maybe sometime after then we could be thinking about animation and such... perhaps? :) Quote
Picasso Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 Adobe Fireworks has states that allow you to create animated gifs. This is a very nice feature and wouldn't seem to be too hard to implement. The states just look like layers. There is a little timer setting you can use for each state. You can also play the animation before exporting the gif. You export your gif as animated. It works really simply and nice. The things in this thread could all be done. This gif has about 150 states (with intended time variation) done in Fireworks: http://bitnium.com Fireworks still gets me by. But states in Affinity would make me change. Quote
Leafdancing Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 Has there been any more thinking/progress on this Dale/MEB? You know an Affinity Motion/ Animation/ After Effects would be huge. Quote
Dave Harris Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 We expect to be focused on Designer, Photo and Publisher for the next year at least. To think about animation at this stage would be a distraction. Quote
Quarian Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Incidentally, I just put up a post not long ago where alternatives to After Effects were mentioned from a Mac-friendly and cost-effective standpoint. Ronnie McBride recently did a tutorial on using Designer with Motion. Following in his footsteps, I posted one about moving your assets from AD to Blender (and, yeah, unfortunately...that is me). Currently, I'm trying to shakedown two pieces of open source 'ware that definitely show some promise. One is Natron (if you're looking for the open source version of After Effects, this IS it...ironically, it has the same interface as Nuke) and the other is called ShotCut. ShotCut is a very capable editor/player with a deceptively simple interface. It doesn't do any compositing, but is very nice companion for Blender and Natron. I've been able to export files from both Designer and Photo and use them in motion graphics experiments in Natron with no problem. Hope this helps. Quote
00Ghz Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Fusion 7 is coming on mac soon as well Quote UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai
pcote Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 Hi, Animation is not on our roadmap at this time, I'm afraid. Every time we / others have tried to do it, it hasn't ended well - I know, I wrote the DrawPlus stop/key frame animation. Bad times :/ The volatility of format also troubles me (spend 2 years making SWF output work, SWF then dies.. etc.) Thanks, AndyS I think you guys should concentrate on making AD and AP the best you can instead of adding these kind of features. Maybe you could add options to easily export to, say, Hype 3, which is a great HTML5 animation tool. Phil Quote
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