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Sketch Machine
- john-tells-all 5y agoAwesome, so much fun! My wife's curious about animation but busy, I'll send this to her.
- chronolitus 5y agoI was learning to use Krita the other day, and was surprised that while you can draw frame by frame, there's no way to draw as the clock advances (and then have the drawing converted to individual frames). Could be useful to map natural movement of a single joint over time, or turn line drawing into a video. But this is an even better idea, drawing in a finite piece of space AND time, for its own sake. Thanks for the discovery!
- steve_adams_86 5y agoMy kid is going to love this. It isn’t often you find something like this that immediately makes you dig in and play. Thanks for sharing!
- bound008 5y agoThat was fun! Thanks for sharing!
- daveslash 5y agoYeah.... that was a surprising amount of joy to play around with for quite a while!
- amazing_stories 5y agoUh oh, I'm going to be wasting a lot of time with this...
- PeterBarrett 5y agoA fun program for the sake of fun, so nice to see!
- Folcon 5y agoIngenious, simple idea executed really well.
- riidom 5y agoThat's a great tool for some frame-to-frame animation training, it's so very friction-less! Here's my little "I dont care"-doodle :D https://media.giphy.com/media/fRECiVW4vyGMBkv6X6/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/fRECiVW4vyGMBkv6X6/giphy.gif
- nickcw 5y agoI just figured out you can draw on it while it is animating the frames - that is really fun! (And perhaps the point, but only just figured it out!) https://giphy.com/gifs/sketchmachine-6WvwbFin0jmeX8lnRU https://giphy.com/gifs/sketchmachine-6WvwbFin0jmeX8lnRU
- astroalex 5y agoThis was created by Casey Reas, who also is one of the original creators of the programming language & IDE called Processing (https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/). I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous. I met Casey at a festival once and he was a remarkably kind and interested person. I think his playful approach to technology shines through in projects like the sketch machine.
- outworlder 5y ago> I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous. Probably relatively well known due to its usage in some Arduino projects.
- crumpled 5y agoThe Arduino IDE was originally based on the Processing IDE, so that's the main connection there. I rarely, if ever, see a Processing/Arduino project. I do a lot with Arduinos, including interactive art, but maybe I'm hanging with the wrong crowd.
- kylestewart 5y agoI bet this influenced the idea behind Looom. Fun app if you have an iPad. https://iorama.studio/ https://iorama.studio/
- granularity 5y agoAgreed, and I second the Looom recommendation.
- speg 5y agoGosh, I feel slow. Everyone is commenting how neat this is and all I got is some dots that follow my line? Then I tried to clear all frames and now it just draws a fat blobby line that doesn't move anymore?
- dcuthbertson 5y agoPerhaps you were drawing with the "Select All" checkbox checked. I got stuck with no animation until I clicked "Clear Frames" with "Select All" checked and then unchecked it before drawing again. It's kind of a clunky UI, but the animation is fun
- dmje 5y agoLove it. Fun, great interface, love the Gif export. Ace :-)
- ProfAesop 5y agoI love Casey.
- tptacek 5y agoThis is much cooler at 64 pixel resolution; it had a sort of shadebob thing going for it.
- kderbyma 5y agoit's needs a drum machine attachment
- robbedpeter 5y agoNeeds more cowbell.