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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 without requiring an internet connection to be productive.

The actually good part is the domain name.

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Wow - did you miss the part that it is using a pencil/pen and paper? Not a graphics tablet, or a mouse, but drawn by hand and then converted to a gif?

I think it's pretty cool that you could print out a template, draw/paint/scribble some bits, take a photo, then have an animated gif!

Exactly. Might turn out great for kids as a first initiation to animation, will definitely try with my daughter!

I agree that this is arguably more about "wow, it's cool and maybe more fun to draw on paper" than "this is actually the easiest way to draw animations in 2022 for most kids".

Most kids have access to a phone/tablet and would probably do better with something like this?

https://animatic.io/

Then again i guess it's easier to draw with pens, pencils, markers, crayons than it is to draw on a phone/tablet.

But yea, it's super cool to do it on paper too. I'd be nice to make the site mobile friendly. Of course this requires access to a printer. I haven't owned a printer in 9 years :( Maybe the next version could use ML or something to let you hand draw the grid.

> and without requiring an internet connection to be productive.

Then who would you show off your animated gifs to?

I think you've completely missed the point of this app in a somewhat exceedingly miserable and uncharitable way.

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