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Last year we announced the beta version of Construct Animate. We're
now delighted to launch Construct Animate out of beta! You can try
our new browser-based animation tool right now at
animate.construct.net, and subscriptions are now available to
purchase to unlock the full features of Construct Animate. Check out
our new logo too!

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We've done absolutely loads of work on Construct Animate since the
launch of the public beta. So it's definitely worth another look if
you last tried it out around then.

Introduction video

See our YouTube video below for a brief summary of the export options
and a demonstration of how to create a new animation. Alternatively
read on below for more details.

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What is Construct Animate?

Construct Animate is a new browser-based animation tool that lets you
easily set up sequences of movement over time in the Timeline Bar,
and export your animations as videos, GIFs or image sequences, as
well as publishing to the web, or even desktop apps and playable ads.
Use it for banner ads, training materials, education, cut-scenes,
game content, or just let your creativity run wild.

Construct Animate will be familiar to anyone who has used Construct
before, but it has numerous adaptations for animation, such as the
new video export option. Subscriptions for Construct Animate are
around half the price of Construct 3 - see the pricing for available
plans.

Features

Construct Animate is crammed with impressive features, as it builds
on the groundwork laid by a decade of high-performance gaming
technology in Construct 3. Here's a few of its features - some of
which are new since the launch of the public beta!

  * Timeline animations for sequencing movements and changes over
    time, including cubic beziers, custom ease curves and
    auto-keyframing, plus a revised and improved interface for the
    Timeline Bar since the public beta
  * Export to video to quickly get a video file of your animation
    with faster-than-realtime encoding and including audio, in both
    the widely-supported MP4 format, as well as the open WebM format.
    Codec options include H.264, VP8, VP9, and even the modern AV1
    for video, and AAC or Opus for audio.
  * Export to GIF and share it directly from the editor for use with
    many apps and websites that still use GIF instead of videos.
  * Export an image sequence to get every frame of your animation as
    a separate image file, ready for processing in other tools,
    including exporting a video with transparency.
  * Also export to the web, as standalone desktop apps, and Playable
    Ads, allowing for interactive media that is convenient to
    distribute.
  * The best visual block-based system for creating interactive logic
    in Construct's Event Sheets. It's ideal for animators without
    programming experience, and yet powerful enough to make
    impressive and sophisticated content.
  * Use mouse, keyboard, touch and even gamepad input for
    interactivity.
  * Advanced users can use JavaScript coding for enhanced
    interactivity or procedural generation with an industry-standard
    programming language. Or even use it to learn JavaScript!
  * Instantly load Construct Animate in any browser. There's nothing
    to install! It'll run on everything from Windows to Chromebooks,
    and it works offline too.
  * A simple and easy-to-use interface.
  * Effortless support for modern hi-dpi and high refresh rate
    displays, and automatic display scaling to any resolution.
  * A built-in image editor and animations editor for frame-by-frame
    Sprite animations.
  * Use hierarchies to connect objects so they move, scale and rotate
    together.
  * Use layers and sub-layers for managing complex content and
    advanced compositing effects.
  * Apply over 80 different effects to individual objects, layers or
    layouts, including PhotoShop-style blends like Screen and
    Overlay, hue rotation, color replacement, blurs, distorting, and
    masking - and even stack multiple effects.
  * Mesh distortion allowing deforming various objects for new kinds
    of effects.
  * Use some simple 3D features like 3D shapes and the 3D camera
    object for an extra element of depth.
  * Use Live Previews to adjust things like particle effects live in
    the editor.
  * Video playback with any browser-supported format
  * Integrate web content like YouTube videos, iframes, and custom
    HTML and CSS content.
  * Use form controls like Text Input to collect details from
    viewers.
  * Audio playback for music and sound effects, including with a
    range of audio effects like low-pass filters, delays and
    convolution.
  * Over 100 built-in example projects.
  * Easily view your content on mobile devices with Remote Preview.
  * Networking features like AJAX and WebSockets, along with using
    data formats like JSON.
  * Advanced text features like BBcode formatted text and
    SpriteFonts.
  * Tile randomization to break up the repetitive appearance of tiled
    images.
  * A debugger and profiler to inspect your animations and get a
    deeper insight to how they work in practice.
  * Flexible search tools including 'Find all references'.
  * Multi-monitor support
  * A gaming-grade renderer with outstanding performance that can
    handle whatever content you throw at it (and with WebGPU support
    on the way too).
  * Unique support for rendering with OffscreenCanvas in a Web
    Worker, ensuring animations run perfectly smoothly and jank-free
    on the web, even with other intensive web content running
    simultaneously.

Integrate with Construct 3

Construct Animate uses the same project file format (.c3p files and
project folders) as Construct 3. This means at any time you can
import your Construct Animate project in to Construct 3 and carry on
- perhaps turning it in to a game, or publishing a mobile app!

It also works the other way round - Construct 3 projects can also be
imported in to Construct Animate, so long as the project doesn't make
use of features specific to Construct 3, such as game-specific
behaviors that Construct Animate does not support.

Construct Animate can also be used to create content for Construct 3
games as well. For example you could design a cutscene, export it as
a video from Construct Animate, and then import the video to a
Construct 3 project and play it with the Video object. Alternatively
you could design character animations and export them as image
sequences to import to the Animations Editor. There are lots of
possibilities!

We are investigating more options to further integrate Construct
Animate and Construct 3, including providing a way to use the video,
GIF and image sequence export options from Construct 3 as well as
Construct Animate. We hope to publish more information about that in
future.

And it's worth emphasising, we are by no means giving up on Construct
3! We're excited about Construct Animate but game development has
always been a huge part of what Construct is about, and always will
be.

Conclusion

We're pleased to make Construct Animate fully available! We took on
board a lot of feedback during the public beta period, and worked
hard to respond to it, including updating the user interface and
adding new export options like GIF and image sequence exports. It's
also a new lower-cost way to get in to Construct, a possible stepping
stone to game development, and all builds on our leading edge browser
technology to make it accessible with no install and high performance
across a wide range of platforms. Purchase a plan today and unlock
the full capabilities of Construct Animate!

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    Wishing Scirra all the best!

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        Thank you!

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    Congratulations on the release!

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        Thanks!

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    Congrats on release! Excited to see where this goes :)

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        Thank you, we're excited too!

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    Congratulations Ashley! As a animator i'd definitely check out
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        Thanks, hope you like it!

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    What are the differences between C3 and CA, except for export?

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        In short, CA lacks features for game development, and has
        only animation-related features. CA also adds the new export
        options for video, GIF and image sequence. I think we will
        get up a full comparison table on the website at some point.

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    The yen price says 70 yen for an annual subscription.

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        Thanks for reporting this, will get it fixed shortly.

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