Ajax Animator is a free, web-based animation suite. 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, but is now a general-purpose animation tool. Ajax Animator is primarily written using

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, the Ext JS framework, and

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-related technologies such as SVG. The software can be used either from within a web browser or from an offline installation.

History

Ajax

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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 th
Koolmoves
Flash editing software. Development started around March 2006, based on th
RichDraw
JavaScript library, which allowed for in-browser graphics creation. The application was soon rewritten to use the DHTML Suite library fro
DHTML Goodies
and finally allowed for exporting SWF files through th
Freemovie
Java library. Development subsequently moved to

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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 th
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.

References

External links

Ajax Animator info page

Ajax Animator 0.20.02 (OnlyPaths)

Ajax Animator 0.20.05 Wave (VectorEditor)

Google Code
{{authority control Free 2D animation software Free vector graphics editors Motion graphics software for Linux

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