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The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)

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I had some fun with it, no offense to anyone involved. It's pretty cool actually, because of how simple it is.

http://www.fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=400

That made me laugh out loud. I put it on my frontpage.

I'm currently reading a book, 'The Black Swan', that talks about randomness, and I have to say... I didn't wake up this morning thinking that I would create a cartoony animation subsequently featured on PG's web site.

This is strangely addictive. I still haven't figured out exactly why.

Looks awesome! Out of curiosity, why can't a user upload a sound or image and use it in their cartoon? If you're worried about NSFW issues, you can always use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to mark a sound or image as NSFW.

User upload will be coming in the near future. At least for images. For now, we wanted to push out something that was dead simple and involved as few steps to create something as possible.

On another note, our more powerful and feature rich online music animator, currently in the works, completely revolves around user created and uploaded content.

While live record is a great way to get it out there... keyframe based animation (even without explicit timing spline control) would really help.

Completely agree. While keyframing may never make it into Mini-vid (maybe a quiet advanced feature?), it will most certainly be in our complete music animator product (which we really need to decide on a name for :) )

I've got lots of ideas on some cool ways to do keyframing and animation for non-animators... anticipating the next product.

The more I play with it and think about it the more impressed I am. The level of user constraint is spot on. You are constrained enough that it's super simple to use but there's plenty to play with for a long time.

Couldn't get it to work. I have Flash 8. No error or anything.

Heh. Yes it currently requires Flash 9 and we have zero checking for upgrades. Right now, we are under the horrible assumption that more or likely you have been to YouTube, which requires Flash 9. That will be fixed by the end of the day. Sorry about that oversight!

I always used YouTube with Flash 7. There was a big gap between 7 and 9 for Linux with no 8.

double congrats to them! A few of them went to Georgia Tech and were in classes of mine. my thoughts about it from yesterday: http://urltea.com/15s0

I'll second that. Congrats to Rob and Devin and whoever else is on the team!

http://fuzzwich.com/minivid/minivid.php?vid=662

You are my new favorite website for when I'm too tired to code yet too wired to sleep...

Thank you!

Wow. This is great. I was just (yesterday) thinking about how there are no user accessible animation tools out there. There's a long way to go, but this is a wonderful start.

Congrats.

Cool name, Fuzzwich. Where is it from? I'll buy a beer for the guy who invented it, if I ever meet him I like it so much. FUZZWICH.

Reminds me a bit of http://quickcomic.com/ - but done right. Well done guys.

This is a fine piece of flash/flex engineering -- congrats guys!

I bet Terry Gilliam wished this was invented years ago...

congrats guys!!

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