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Ajax Animator is a free, web-based animation suite. Its development began in March 2006 by Antimatter15, then a sixth grader. Ajax Animator was originally intended to be a free replacement to Flash MX, but is now a general-purpose animation tool. Ajax Animator is primarily written using
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, the
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framework, and
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-related technologies such as SVG. The software can be used either from within a web browser or from an offline installation.


History

Ajax Animator began as an ambitious project by Antimatter15, then a 6th grader. Its intended use was to draw stick figures and animation and export them to Flash files, as an alternative to the expensive Flash MX desktop program. It was first inspired by th
Koolmoves
Flash editing software. Development started around March 2006, based on th
RichDraw
JavaScript library, which allowed for in-browser graphics creation. The application was soon rewritten to use the DHTML Suite library fro
DHTML Goodies
and finally allowed for exporting
SWF files SWF ( ) is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript.Open Screen Pr ...
through th
Freemovie
Java library. Development subsequently moved to Subversion on
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to ease production. Version 1.0 was rewritten to use version 1.0 of Sencha's
Ext JS Ext JS is a JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross-platform web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. It can be used as a simple component framework (for example, to create dynamic grids on ...
library instead. It also added support for
inbetweening Inbetweening, also known as tweening, is a process in animation that involves creating intermediate frames, called inbetweens, between two keyframes. The intended result is to create the illusion of movement by smoothly transitioning one image in ...
and sharing projects. The next version, 0.20, was a complete rewrite to support version 2.0 of
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, and used th
OnlyPaths
library by josep_ssv, which extended RichDraw and was designed specifically for Ajax Animator. Later versions used the author's own VectorEditor library, based on the Raphaël framework.


See also

*
List of 2D animation software This is a list of two-dimensional animation software. See also * List of 3D animation software {{Animation editors 2D animation Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation ...


References


External links


Ajax Animator info page

Ajax Animator 0.20.02 (OnlyPaths)

Ajax Animator 0.20.05 Wave (VectorEditor)

Google Code
{{authority control Free 2D animation software Free vector graphics editors Motion graphics software for Linux