June 20th 2001 | Jens C Brynildsen

Flash Pocket Animator

Phillip Torrone (Flashenabled.com) has brought to our attention yet another cool gizmo for your PDA: a SWF animation program!

From Flashenabled: Pocket Animator is the Macromedia® Flash™ Enabled vector animation solution for your Microsoft Pocket PC. Efficient, automatic drawing tools. Automatically detects the creation of ellipses and rectangles. Autosimplify and autosmooth Robust controller-based animation tools Controllable properties: fill color, line color, line width, opacity, position, rotation and scale. Automatic key framing for direct manipulation of shapes. “Follow Path” controller. Per-shape and entire animation preview. Optimized output to Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF).

The program will even create the SWF and the needed HTML file for you! Impressive features for this one but is it really usable? To a certain point, yes, but you wouldn't use this for a huge project. Maybe for sketches and ideas...
Download and play with it

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