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This is great! As someone who has dealt with After Effects (and Flash) this feels like a great stepping stone tool.

Looking at the output code, it seems like you could have an edit mode that displays the Animation History as numbered "dots" on the background to let someone click and move or remove a dot. Then you start to expose things like time between dots, and soon enough you've taught the basics of tweeting. :-)

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That's how I generated the red dots in the demo at the top of the page actually! I rendered one dot for every 10 movements and then ran some JS that would delete any element I clicked on.

I never though of that as a way to edit the underlying animation though... that's smart! The dots would be pretty close together though, so you might need a zoom control too.

Very cool idea, thank you! I'm gonna think more about this.

Did you mean tweening? I haven’t heard of tweeting used in the context of animation.

Ha! Yes, the forever battle with auto correct. Although I'm sure it could be made to auto-tweet :-P

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