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News on the online storyboard and animatic building web app Animatic Builder.

Animatic Builder v1.40

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Animatic Builder v1.40 - Auth: Whitney Krape The new version of Animatic Builder is up. This update includes a whole offline system taking advantage of HTML 5′s manifest and localStorage for offline use anywhere. To complement the new offline functionality is a redesigned UI which now scales to mobile platforms as well, specifically the iPhone. The are a number of speed improvements allowing well over 200 frames in a sequence without impacting playback performance. (The SQL updating and the uploading for the demo are disabled.)

Animatic Builder now available for download!

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A short sweet post here. Up on the Animatic Builder page are two downloads, a nightly build and the recent stable version. Have at least PHP 4 and MySQL 4? then your all set to go! Animatic Builder

Animatic Builder Development Continues

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Animatic Builder Development Continues - Auth: Whitney Krape

The Redesigned Animatic Builder timeline. - Auth: Whitney KrapeThe Redesigned Animatic Builder timeline.

During the past few weeks I have been diligently updating Animatic Builder with new features and a completely new interface. Overall the main idea of the App hasn’t changed; building and maintaining a sequence over a range of any internet connected devices. What in the release makes that goal easier? Quite a bit.

From the start the whole App has been rebuilt with an AJAX, or asynchronous, connection so the user can modify the sequence without the delay of reloading page each time a change needs to be saved. Every on page change is made once a user focuses away from a changeable element. As well, each change effects the sequence immediately so a duration takes effect right as it is made.

The playback system has changed drastically as well. The most obvious alteration is the introduction of a self-centering elastic layout which keeps the current frame in the center of a browser window and when the browser is re-sized the whole layout expands around it to any size. Continue reading →

Relax – Week 3 : Animatic Builder

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Relax - Week 03 : Animatic Builder

The Animatic Builder timeline.The Animatic Builder timeline.
For this update I am going to give an overview of a new online application I have developed over he past couple of weeks to aid in pre-production, Animatic Builder. If you are unfamiliar with storyboards or animatics there are overviews here. Essentially where storyboards are the first visual organization of a film idea, an animatic is the next step adding a duration to each storyboard so the pacing of a film can be developed. Animatic Builder is designed to make creating storyboard and animatic sequences easier by keeping a sequence and it’s associated content in a central location accessible from virtually anywhere within an intuitive user interface.

The core idea of Animatic Builder is that a sequence can be timed out, played back and updated from a web browser without the need for movie compression, emailing large files and maintaining timeline files. With a concept and a set of images, a timed out sequence can be arranged and played back in just a few minutes. Animatic Builder is not meant to replace a non-linear editor such as Final Cut Pro but for planning out a scene or short movie during pre-production. The functionality of the app will be focused on building sequences with only pre-production information, keeping the app lightweight and accessible from any modern browser. Animatic Builder keeps a sequence and it’s necessary files contained for easy access.
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