Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw

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107 points | by chunza2542 85 days ago

11 comments

  • anitil 85 days ago
    What a fantastic idea! I love using excalidraw and I've used it for making slides by just screenshotting and manually editing, this is so much nicer. I really like the example of following a flowchart as well.

    One small nit - in your video you use some naughty words, if you're looking to sell this I'd consider dropping that. I probably can't share the video with my colleagues, for example

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    • chunza2542 85 days ago
      i'm glad you like it! for the naughty words, it a list of quote from my fav show, slicon valley, but yeah, i will do it better next times. appreciate your feedback.
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      • reynaldi 85 days ago
        i think youtube allows you to blur some parts of your video

        in case you don’t want to recreate the video

  • yoz 85 days ago
    This looks great! I love that it builds on top of existing tools has so many kinds of export already. Thank you so much for sharing it - I'm always looking for good tools for quick animation and presentations.

    Like you, I'm a big fan of Keynote. It would be amazing to have Keynote-style smooth animation here too (tweening, easing curves, Magic Move, etc.), though I'm sure it would be a huge project in itself.

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    • chunza2542 85 days ago
      glad you like it! the animation features is interesting, noted.
  • igniuss 84 days ago
    Super neat! I made something similar with tldraw for presentations at my company, definitely not as clean as this! I'll be sure to give it a try for my next one
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  • foz 85 days ago
    really nice! do you support onion-skinning for building smoother animations? Motion paths would be cool too. Ok enough ideas, it's a great project already!
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    • mephitix 85 days ago
      +1, onion skinning was the first thing i was looking for given it was billed as a way to create animation.

      Anyway, nice project, cool to see excalidraw hosted like this.

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      • dmje 82 days ago
        Yeh, and duplicate slide option? I may be missing it, on iPad…
    • chunza2542 85 days ago
      noted!
  • michaelbrave 84 days ago
    I primarily use excalidraw via a plugin for obsidian, I wonder what amount of effort it would take to get it running on that.
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    • chunza2542 83 days ago
      could you share the use case or elaborate more? (if you want to embed the content there you can edit on the web and export as iframe)
  • emrekursun 83 days ago
    It's really a great tool, well done! I enjoy using Excalidraw, and this tool makes a lot of sense, especially with the gif feature. However, would developing such an application cause any licensing issues?
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    • chunza2542 83 days ago
      no licensing issues. Excalidraw is published under MIT license. if my project keeps developing, we can contribute some parts back to Excalidraw. this is a win-win.
  • reynaldi 85 days ago
    this looks amazing, can't wait to use it for my next articles

    also nice job on the video demo, was it made using inscribed? :p

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    • chunza2542 85 days ago
      screen studio + capcut + epidermic sound (and a little bit of inscribed xd)
  • loa_observer 85 days ago
    Wow, it looks really easy to use.
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  • internet_points 85 days ago
    Pretty cool. I love Excalidraw and use it all the time, this is a nice addition :-)
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  • crashabr 85 days ago
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