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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)

29 points by dhouston 19y ago

palish 19y ago
Looks awesome! Out of curiosity, why can't a user upload a sound or image and use it in their cartoon? If you're worried about NSFW issues, you can always use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mark a sound or image as NSFW.
- rms 19y ago
  Copyright concerns?
- seekely 19y ago
  User upload will be coming in the near future. At least for images. For now, we wanted to push out something that was dead simple and involved as few steps to create something as possible. On another note, our more powerful and feature rich online music animator, currently in the works, completely revolves around user created and uploaded content.
  - far33d 19y ago
    While live record is a great way to get it out there... keyframe based animation (even without explicit timing spline control) would really help.
    - seekely 19y ago
      Completely agree. While keyframing may never make it into Mini-vid (maybe a quiet advanced feature?), it will most certainly be in our complete music animator product (which we really need to decide on a name for :) )
      - far33d 19y ago
        I've got lots of ideas on some cool ways to do keyframing and animation for non-animators... anticipating the next product.
dhouston 19y ago
congrats guys!!
PStamatiou 19y ago
double congrats to them! A few of them went to Georgia Tech and were in classes of mine. my thoughts about it from yesterday: http://urltea.com/15s0 http://urltea.com/15s0
- walterk 19y ago
  I'll second that. Congrats to Rob and Devin and whoever else is on the team!
davidw 19y ago
I had some fun with it, no offense to anyone involved. It's pretty cool actually, because of how simple it is. http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400 http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400
- pg 19y ago
  That made me laugh out loud. I put it on my frontpage.
  - davidw 19y ago
    I'm currently reading a book, 'The Black Swan', that talks about randomness, and I have to say... I didn't wake up this morning thinking that I would create a cartoony animation subsequently featured on PG's web site.
joshwa 19y ago
Reminds me a bit of http://quickcomic.com/ http://quickcomic.com/ - but done right. Well done guys.
pg 19y ago
This is strangely addictive. I still haven't figured out exactly why.
far33d 19y ago
Wow. This is great. I was just (yesterday) thinking about how there are no user accessible animation tools out there. There's a long way to go, but this is a wonderful start. Congrats.
mynameishere 19y ago
Couldn't get it to work. I have Flash 8. No error or anything.
- seekely 19y ago
  Heh. Yes it currently requires Flash 9 and we have zero checking for upgrades. Right now, we are under the horrible assumption that more or likely you have been to YouTube, which requires Flash 9. That will be fixed by the end of the day. Sorry about that oversight!
  - portLAN 19y ago
    I always used YouTube with Flash 7. There was a big gap between 7 and 9 for Linux with no 8.
luxiou 19y ago
This is a fine piece of flash/flex engineering -- congrats guys!
brett 19y ago
The more I play with it and think about it the more impressed I am. The level of user constraint is spot on. You are constrained enough that it's super simple to use but there's plenty to play with for a long time.
uuilly 19y ago
http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=662 http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=662 You are my new favorite website for when I'm too tired to code yet too wired to sleep... Thank you!
andyjenn 19y ago
I bet Terry Gilliam wished this was invented years ago...
blored 19y ago
Cool name, Fuzzwich. Where is it from? I'll buy a beer for the guy who invented it, if I ever meet him I like it so much. FUZZWICH.

29 points by dhouston 19y ago

Looks awesome! Out of curiosity, why can't a user upload a sound or image and use it in their cartoon? If you're worried about NSFW issues, you can always use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mark a sound or image as NSFW.

rms 19y ago
Copyright concerns?
seekely 19y ago
User upload will be coming in the near future. At least for images. For now, we wanted to push out something that was dead simple and involved as few steps to create something as possible. On another note, our more powerful and feature rich online music animator, currently in the works, completely revolves around user created and uploaded content.
- far33d 19y ago
  While live record is a great way to get it out there... keyframe based animation (even without explicit timing spline control) would really help.
  - seekely 19y ago
    Completely agree. While keyframing may never make it into Mini-vid (maybe a quiet advanced feature?), it will most certainly be in our complete music animator product (which we really need to decide on a name for :) )
    - far33d 19y ago
      I've got lots of ideas on some cool ways to do keyframing and animation for non-animators... anticipating the next product.

dhouston 19y ago

congrats guys!!

PStamatiou 19y ago

double congrats to them! A few of them went to Georgia Tech and were in classes of mine. my thoughts about it from yesterday: http://urltea.com/15s0 http://urltea.com/15s0

walterk 19y ago
I'll second that. Congrats to Rob and Devin and whoever else is on the team!

davidw 19y ago

I had some fun with it, no offense to anyone involved. It's pretty cool actually, because of how simple it is. http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400 http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400

pg 19y ago
That made me laugh out loud. I put it on my frontpage.
- davidw 19y ago
  I'm currently reading a book, 'The Black Swan', that talks about randomness, and I have to say... I didn't wake up this morning thinking that I would create a cartoony animation subsequently featured on PG's web site.

joshwa 19y ago

Reminds me a bit of http://quickcomic.com/ http://quickcomic.com/ - but done right. Well done guys.

pg 19y ago

This is strangely addictive. I still haven't figured out exactly why.

far33d 19y ago

Wow. This is great. I was just (yesterday) thinking about how there are no user accessible animation tools out there. There's a long way to go, but this is a wonderful start. Congrats.

mynameishere 19y ago

Couldn't get it to work. I have Flash 8. No error or anything.

seekely 19y ago
Heh. Yes it currently requires Flash 9 and we have zero checking for upgrades. Right now, we are under the horrible assumption that more or likely you have been to YouTube, which requires Flash 9. That will be fixed by the end of the day. Sorry about that oversight!
- portLAN 19y ago
  I always used YouTube with Flash 7. There was a big gap between 7 and 9 for Linux with no 8.

luxiou 19y ago

This is a fine piece of flash/flex engineering -- congrats guys!

brett 19y ago

The more I play with it and think about it the more impressed I am. The level of user constraint is spot on. You are constrained enough that it's super simple to use but there's plenty to play with for a long time.

uuilly 19y ago

http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=662 http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=662 You are my new favorite website for when I'm too tired to code yet too wired to sleep... Thank you!

andyjenn 19y ago

I bet Terry Gilliam wished this was invented years ago...

blored 19y ago

Cool name, Fuzzwich. Where is it from? I'll buy a beer for the guy who invented it, if I ever meet him I like it so much. FUZZWICH.