Re: 2-D vector based animation?
- Posted by DanM May 04, 2009
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has anyone developed a simple, vector based animation creator?
What are your functional requirements? That is, what do you actually want the product to do and how do you want to get it to do that?
I assume by 'vector' you mean that you want to describe an image in terms of line segments and colors. And animate it by describing images at different 'ticks' and having the product calculate the line segment changes during the 'ticks' to form a smooth animation from one 'tick' to the next.
I think I would want it to do the following:
allow drawing shapes, by placing default simple geometric shapes like circles,rectangles, triangles, and user drawn polygons, and user drawn curviliniear shapes;
storing shape, color, position, orientation & size info
editing position etc for key frames
tweening between key frames
collision detection while tweening, with queuing and path sharing
previewing animation
outputing to video file viewable on Windows Media Player or convertable to .wmv
Dan
