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Every time I've shown this to the designers, (full design team at a corporation, single designer at a startup, small design team) everyone says it looks cool bu
by Larrikin 5y ago
Every time I've shown this to the designers, (full design team at a corporation, single designer at a startup, small design team) everyone says it looks cool but then it never gets used because nobody on the team has any experience using After Effects and no one has time to learn for cool looking but ultimately superfluous animations.
- quitit 5y agoIt sounds like it fits one very specific scenario: a coder and designer(that had made all their work in AE) working together and the coder can now dodge the tedium of programming animations. However I prefer Hype (from Tumult) because it’s found that middle ground in simplicity while still being able to integrate real-world web. For that reason a designer(or coder really) can pick up Hype and not need anyone else. It reminds me a little of Flash, but the underpinning technology is javascript. For example in Hype it’s straight forward to build animated and compliant html5 google ads. That’s something a designer can do all on their own without any coding, the entire process is contained to that one app. Similarly a designer can make a fully animated reactive website and not need to touch code at all. Also Hype is $50 once. AE is either $240 per year or part of the Adobe creative cloud subscription which is around $600 per year.
- josefrichter 5y agoAE is not difficult, many designers know it (especially those who worked with Flash). The problem is that AE let’s you easily create stuff that is completely detached from technological reality and impossible to implement.