The Animator

Some common feature requests I get and some answers so you know 😁

Can we have sound/music?

Sorry, no. Copyright and abuse issues will be impossible for me to manage.

Can we import/upload images?

No, same issues as above

Can we have layers in the editor?

I am considering it. It is complex and needs a complete overhaul of the way the editor works.

Can we have higher resolution animations?

Working on it. May take some time.

Can we see people's online status?

Probably not. It places much higher demands (and costs) on my server. I'm not sure about safety implications too.

Can we collaborate with animations?

I won't make a realtime collaboration tool. It's too complex and server intensive. I have ideas for other ways to collaborate in the future.

Can we have private messaging?

I definitely will not do this for safety reasons.

maybe its due to the amount of animations posted on theanimator?

@spoinko said:

maybe its due to the amount of animations posted on theanimator?

i think its because this website cant handle that many frames at once, and especially if its an exciting stickman animation, it wouldnt be able to handle that many frames with that many pixels. this is a fairly small website, so something like that happening is pretty normal

it could also be due to the amuont of people online and/or the amount of animations being made in the editor right now. a small website can get laggy pretty easily, so i say just keep trying for it to encode, maybe it could be you internet, or the device you're using? it could always be something else other that the website. if that happens to me i would probably save the animation as of now, so you can upload it to a better software and continue working on it? but im not sure how it works, tho, im not a big computer person...

Edited by @MrMiyagi

like, im on my school laptop rn, and the websites pretty laggy, maybe its just too much for my compuser. that could be the case for u too!

@MrMiyagi

one thing, 500 frames is not too much for the website, ive seen animations with 1600+ frames that ran just fine.

another thing, i dont think its cuz of the people online that are using the editor, as you see, the site is kind of barren right now :/

so it could be the amount of animations that have piled up that are slowing the site down, maybe.

@spoinko said:

@MrMiyagi

one thing, 500 frames is not too much for the website, ive seen animations with 1600+ frames that ran just fine.

another thing, i dont think its cuz of the people online that are using the editor, as you see, the site is kind of barren right now :/

so it could be the amount of animations that have piled up that are slowing the site down, maybe.

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1400th FAQ post :>

How queer

how interesting

how engrossing

why do all the comments and animations say "in *[time]*" like i just created an animation and is says "in 1hr" huh????????????????????? guys im confuzzled

@MrMiyagi said:

why do all the comments and animations say "in *[time]*" like i just created an animation and is says "in 1hr" huh????????????????????? guys im confuzzled

@Dan

we need an update @Dan ! This site is dying :(

i agree with @PlanetAntMan !!!! i haven't really used theanimator in a while but i still really love this site

hes probably working on one right now, thats probably why hes not very active idk

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