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).<p>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.
This is really, really cool! The kids are going to love this!<p>I'm no artist, but it is super easy! - <a href="https://imgur.com/a/hbCSkiY" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/hbCSkiY</a><p>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
Nice work. It inspired me to interrupt work and create this<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/MBIx7jJ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/MBIx7jJ</a>
I like the simplicity, but it seems rather difficult to draw an animation without an ability to overlay the frames.<p>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?
This would be a really cool integration with Paper Website<p><a href="https://paperwebsite.com" rel="nofollow">https://paperwebsite.com</a>
<a href="https://brush.ninja/" rel="nofollow">https://brush.ninja/</a> 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.<p>No forced sign up, ads, etc.
Reminds me of Flipnote Studio on the Nintendo DS. Had a large active community with a lot of creativity.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipnote_Studio" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipnote_Studio</a><p>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.
Very neat idea, definitely going to try making few gifs myself :)<p>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.
This is how I taught my son to do these, but just wrote a simple script using the ImageMagick library and regular grid paper.<p>It's definitely not a huge technical wonder, but I swear he made hundreds of them.
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 <i>without requiring an internet connection to be productive.</i><p>The actually <i>good</i> part is the domain name.