[HN Gopher] Create hand-drawn GIFs on paper
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Create hand-drawn GIFs on paper
Author : trueduke
Score : 323 points
Date : 2022-04-13 08:12 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| vinnymac wrote:
| Reminds me of Flipnote Studio on the Nintendo DS. Had a large
| active community with a lot of creativity.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipnote_Studio
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| I am sure this will get used in a similar way. I'd be interested
| to see a platform like deviantart, join forces with a new form
| factor like this.
| nkozyra wrote:
| This is how I taught my son to do these, but just wrote a simple
| script using the ImageMagick library and regular grid paper.
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| It's definitely not a huge technical wonder, but I swear he made
| hundreds of them.
| vanderZwan wrote:
| How did you do the alignment?
|
| I've seen various tools that let you take a picture and that
| then automatically align the paper to scan it (sometimes with
| and sometimes without QR codes in the corners) and I wish there
| was some general "how to" tutorial out there for that kind of
| trick
| bennyp101 wrote:
| This is really, really cool! The kids are going to love this!
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| I'm no artist, but it is super easy! -
| https://imgur.com/a/hbCSkiY
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| Only thing is that the image didn't seem to work taking a photo
| directly on my phone - had to move it to the computer to upload
| georgyo wrote:
| This was truly amazing, I hope the add more templates for the
| non-artistically inclined. The fact that even I could do
| something like this is amazing!
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| https://imgur.com/a/Up4vaXn
| eljimmy wrote:
| This is awesome! Will be sharing this with friends with kids.
| [deleted]
| tyingq wrote:
| https://brush.ninja/ is fast and nice if you just want to do
| quick stick figure type animated gifs. Start by drawing something
| simple in the current frame, then down at the bottom, use the
| "duplicate" to make the next frame and add some changes, then
| rinse/repeat.
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| No forced sign up, ads, etc.
| edwinyzh wrote:
| Wow! My kids will love it! I'll have them try this out on the
| weekend.
| globalise83 wrote:
| Works very nicely - my stick man was able to score a goal and
| celebrate! Firefox + Android
| electricair wrote:
| This would be a really cool integration with Paper Website
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| https://paperwebsite.com
| thadk wrote:
| And Field Papers
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| http://www.fieldpapers.org
| SMAAART wrote:
| This is fun
| H1Supreme wrote:
| Oh man, I love this!! I'm gonna send to my girlfriend who's an
| Art Teacher.
| AQXt wrote:
| Amazing! I'll try it with my kids. :)
|
| Suggestion: create an app so we can see the results immediately.
| yreg wrote:
| I like the simplicity, but it seems rather difficult to draw an
| animation without an ability to overlay the frames.
|
| Perhaps that could be solved by some kind of folded template? Or
| a multi-page template that can be arranged and scanned in one go
| in the end?
| petee wrote:
| You could print on Vellum, its slightly transparent and great
| for transferring. I think thats what they used back in the day
| too
| whateveracct wrote:
| You can a get cheap portable light table. I have a Huion one I
| use for making papercraft greeting cards (I sketch the shapes
| before transferring to colored paper via tracing).
| yreg wrote:
| I have to say though, the ability to paint a separate
| background and foreground and choose the frame rate in the
| template already is pretty cool!
| isoprophlex wrote:
| There appear to be thinly drawn grids in each cell to help
| alignment?
| matthewhartmans wrote:
| This is really neat! Nice one OP!
| lightwin wrote:
| Very neat idea, definitely going to try making few gifs myself :)
|
| Just found a minor issue, when we click on any image on templates
| page, it gives a "Not found" error. May be you can link the image
| to PDF so that user can click on image to open the pdf.
| agbagbagb wrote:
| Nice work. It inspired me to interrupt work and create this
|
| https://imgur.com/a/MBIx7jJ
| filipeisho wrote:
| I cant scroll the webpage on iphone
| tedunangst wrote:
| I don't know what they've done, but eventually it unsticks if
| you just keep swiping. Then it gets stuck again, then it
| scrolls again. It's navigable, given sufficient patience and
| effort.
| pimlottc wrote:
| Yes, it kept springing back, but eventually it worked
| naetius wrote:
| Same. Reader mode to the rescue!
|
| Update: darn it ain't work
| jack_riminton wrote:
| Really nice combination of digital and analogue. I wish more
| websites were more 'hand-drawn'
| MrYellowP wrote:
| It's like taking something that's decades old, trying to make it
| look fresh. One can do this easily in paint.net using the
| animated gif plugin, without being required to draw into a grid
| and _without requiring an internet connection to be productive._
|
| The actually _good_ part is the domain name.
| teh_klev wrote:
| > and without requiring an internet connection to be
| productive.
|
| Then who would you show off your animated gifs to?
|
| I think you've completely missed the point of this app in a
| somewhat exceedingly miserable and uncharitable way.
| asiachick wrote:
| I agree that this is arguably more about "wow, it's cool and
| maybe more fun to draw on paper" than "this is actually the
| easiest way to draw animations in 2022 for most kids".
|
| Most kids have access to a phone/tablet and would probably do
| better with something like this?
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| https://animatic.io/
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| Then again i guess it's easier to draw with pens, pencils,
| markers, crayons than it is to draw on a phone/tablet.
|
| But yea, it's super cool to do it on paper too. I'd be nice to
| make the site mobile friendly. Of course this requires access
| to a printer. I haven't owned a printer in 9 years :( Maybe the
| next version could use ML or something to let you hand draw the
| grid.
| bennyp101 wrote:
| Wow - did you miss the part that it is using a pencil/pen and
| paper? Not a graphics tablet, or a mouse, but drawn by hand and
| then converted to a gif?
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| I think it's pretty cool that you could print out a template,
| draw/paint/scribble some bits, take a photo, then have an
| animated gif!
| k_ wrote:
| Exactly. Might turn out great for kids as a first initiation
| to animation, will definitely try with my daughter!
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| robin_reala wrote:
| I thought this was going to be instructions on how to make a
| flipbook animation, for the kids that are more familiar with GIFs
| than those.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Yeah, the submitted title is not good at conveying what this
| actually is.
| hwers wrote:
| I think this is really cute and wonderful. I think there's some
| room to improve here, e.g. an AR ghost overlay of previous frames
| as well as ML extracted frames from pure paper without having to
| print a template (both of which I believe are feasible). But
| overall I love that people are experimenting with this stuff (and
| wouldn't want to react negatively here in any way to discourage
| this type of work).
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| Some might argue moving from digital to pen and paper is a step
| down but I'd argue the opposite. I'd love and look forward to a
| possible future where we move digital advancements into the
| analog world in this way. As Theil says you can barely tell the
| difference between this world and the 80s if you remove cell
| phones and computers, but things like this are a cool way to
| hopefully get us closer to computers aiding more natural forms of
| interaction.
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| derac wrote:
| I love this project! I agree support for arbitrary grids would
| add a lot to the user experience. You might not even need ml
| for that. For instance, look for the blob of uninterrupted
| color that occupies the largest contiguous space in the image
| and interpret cell order within it by a function of their
| midpoint and filter for size. You could draw missing outside
| walls via convex hull generation first.
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