Ajax Animator
{{Short description|Web-based Animation Suite}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Ajax Animator
| title = Ajax Animator
| logo = Ajax Animator Logo.png
| screenshot =
| caption =
| author = Antimatter15, brwainer, others
| developer = Antimatter15
| released =
| latest release version = 0.20.05 Wave
| latest release date = {{Start date|df=yes|2011|12|31}}
| programming language = JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, Java
| language = English
| genre = Vector graphics editor
| license = GPL-3.0-or-later
| website = {{URL|http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/}}
}}
Ajax Animator is a free, web-based animation suite.{{cite web|title=Ajax Animator - A free web based flash animator|url=http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=739233|access-date=17 January 2012|author=Antimatter15}}{{cite web|title=Ajax Animator: Browser based, simple animation tool (Chrome)|url=http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/ajax-animator-simple-animation-tool/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219085711/http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/ajax-animator-simple-animation-tool/|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 December 2010|publisher=makeuseof.com|access-date=17 January 2012}} 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,{{cite web|title=Introduction|author=brwainer|author2=Antimatter15|url=http://forkswif.googlecode.com/git/Liveswifers/www.pryjon.com/liveswifers/forums/viewtopic3b1a.html?t=800|url-status=dead|access-date=30 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223191910/http://forkswif.googlecode.com/git/Liveswifers/www.pryjon.com/liveswifers/forums/viewtopic3b1a.html?t=800|archive-date=23 February 2014|language=en}}{{cite web|last=Zhang|first=Moxie|title=AJAX Animator Demonstrates AJAX in RIA World|url=http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/ajax-animator-in-ria|publisher=InfoQ|access-date=17 January 2012|language=en}} but is now a general-purpose animation tool. Ajax Animator is primarily written using JavaScript, the Ext JS framework, and HTML5-related technologies such as SVG. The software can be used either from within a web browser or from an offline installation.{{cite web|last1=Bowen|first1=Ronda|title=Top 5 Low-Budget and Free Flash Editors|url=http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/73998.aspx|website=Brighthub.com|publisher=Bright Hub Inc.|access-date=7 February 2015|date=13 March 2011|language=en}}
History
Ajax Animator began as a project by Antimatter15, then a 6th grader. Its intended use was to draw stick figures and animate and export them to Flash files, as an alternative to the expensive Flash MX desktop program. It was first inspired by the [http://www.koolmoves.com Koolmoves] Flash editing software. Development started around March 2006, based on the [http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/04/richdraw-simple-vmlsvg-editor/ RichDraw] JavaScript library, which allowed for in-browser graphics creation.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://antimatter15.com/wp/ajax-animator/ajaxanimatorhistory/|access-date=21 January 2012|author=Antimatter15|language=en}}
The application was soon rewritten to use the DHTML Suite library from [http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com DHTML Goodies], and finally allowed for exporting SWF files through the [http://freemovie.sourceforge.net Freemovie] Java library. Development subsequently moved to Subversion on Google Code to ease production.
Version 1.0 was rewritten to use version 1.0 of Sencha's Ext JS library instead. It also added support for inbetweening and sharing projects. The next version, 0.20, was a complete rewrite to support version 2.0 of Ext JS, and used the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/onlypaths/ 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
References
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External links
- [http://antimatter15.com/wp/ajax-animator/ Ajax Animator info page]
- [http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/build/ Ajax Animator 0.20.02 (OnlyPaths)]
- [http://antimatter15.com/ajaxanimator/wave/ Ajax Animator 0.20.05 Wave (VectorEditor)]
- [https://code.google.com/p/ajaxanimator/ Google Code]
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Category:Free 2D animation software