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Jitter Beta — A simple animation tool on the web
Jitter is like Figma for motion design: it makes it easy to create animations for your videos, websites or apps, all in the browser.
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@adri1dupuy That's the idea Adrien, thanks for your comment! Yes the goal is to make motion design easier, faster & cheaper – still a lot of things to do to get there, but I hope we're on a good start :)
Reminds me of the early days on the web with Flash animations everywhere. 🥲
I miss those days!
@benjaminnetter @robi No, actually MVP philosophy does not allow it to come back. These days founders are more efficiency oriented than ever before.
@benjaminnetter @samandarco Interesting point you have here Samandar! We realize there is still a huge need to create animations for media content (it's even increasing). Curious to see how this evolves for the interface design part
@benjaminnetter @robi I think you have to start a movement. Start from freelancers. Because you removed friction from their work-flow.
@benjaminnetter @samandarco Good call, indeed we're planning to start helping individual designers, and then gradually become more and more important in a team workflow. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I've used the Jitter Beta for my product marketing, it's a total game changer! Within 5 minutes I get a slick and smooth animation customized to my company brand identity and copy, and from there tweaking everything to the last detail is super intuitive and fun. In terms of media creativity tools, motion design is one of the hardest UX challenges to tackle, and Jitter makes it truly accessible not just to all designers but even product marketers. Lottie exports (for landing pages) is top of my wish list. Highly recommended.
@jeffboudier Thanks for your feedback and for your support along the way Jeff! Lottie export is definitely on the roadmap :)
As a longtime PowerPoint user for video ads ... Jitter surely feels like a nifty tool!✌🏻
Looks like that somehow Flash is back. At least for the wsywyg animation editing part :-) I like it.
@olotiar Thanks Florian! Your feedback and resources while we were building this first version were incredibly helpful, thanks again for your support during this time!
Amazing product! I have been looking into animation tool for a while. Do you think the product would ever move into the direction as a plugin for figma or sketch? Would love to see animation working in a final prototype!
@lawly_popp Hi Jasmine! We have that in the works, this has been a pretty common request :)
Hi @lawly_popp!
Good news, we're releasing a beta version of our Figma plugin: https://www.notion.so/jitter/Jit.... After you give it a try, we'd love to know what we should improve to facilitate the import, so you can reach out to us at figma.plugin@jitter.video anytime with your feedback :)
Thanks again and talk soon!
Hey @lawly_popp,
And there it is: the Figma Community page for our plugin! https://www.figma.com/community/... Can't wait to hear your feedback :)
I love the animation presets! Never thought I could create sophisticated animations so quickly!
@eronzano Thanks Eduardo! Yes, we realized many designers use the same effects to make objects appear and disappear, and it's really time consuming! So we made those presets to add the animations in 1 click, and they can tweak them afterwards if needed
This is amazing! As a content creator (YouTube), this is exactly what I have been looking for. It will allow me to re-purpose existing content for other channels very easily and make it feel native to those platforms.
Thank you! Keep it up :)
@sunebthorsen Awesome Sune! Please feel free to reach out to us anytime after you try the tool a bit more: we'd love to learn how we can improve it for you :)
Hello Hunters! 👋
We're @etienn & @robi, and we're making Jitter. We are both passionate about motion graphics, and we basically want to make animation simple, fast, and more accessible.
We previously launched a simple text animator and the feedback has been amazing! 🙏 We learned that people want more customization, but in a simple and lightweight package (After Effects is still too cumbersome for many designers).
So here is our first take on a more advanced animation tool, with a couple of radical choices (no keyframes, built-in text animation support…). Please bear in mind this is a beta version, so everything might not work as expected yet, but we're really excited to see what you can create with Jitter already! :)
Looking forward to discussing in the comments: we'd love to hear your feedback and your thoughts on our tool!
@etienn @daryllman Thanks Daryll! It's still in early stage, and there are many things we need to improve, but we think it provides a lot of value already (especially in terms of speed and simplicity). Would love to hear your feedback!
@etienn @emmanuelcharon Thanks Emmanuel! We've had great feedback so far, and yet there are so many things we want to improve! Now back to work ^^
@etienn @megaroeny Hi Reony! Thanks for your message :) We take a different approach in.a few ways:
- you can use media and text (→ not limited to SVG)
- there are no keyframes, everything works with actions / instructions (→ this makes it easier to understand)
- you can use animation presets that are customizable (→ easy to prototype an animation in a few clicks, and then to refine it)
- you can export as GIF and video (→ no code for now, but we'd like to add Lottie soon)
Does it make sense? Would love to hear your thoughts on these :)
As for the Figma compatibility, we'll be working on a Figma import / plugin soon!
Amazing is what I think. Made a quick gif from a design file in like less than 5min. Quick way to express animated ideas. Good stuff.. Figma import would be amazing!!
Hey @nqobile_vundla!
Good news, we're starting to release a beta version of our Figma plugin: https://www.notion.so/jitter/Jit.... After you give it a try, we'd love to know what we should improve to facilitate the import, so you can reach out to us at figma.plugin@jitter.video anytime with your feedback :)
Thanks again and talk soon!
Hey @nqobile_vundla! Just a heads-up, the Jitter plugin is now available on Figma Community: https://www.figma.com/community/...
Would love to hear what you think!
Been using this since early beta. Only take only a few minutes to make something that would take hours in AE, this is amazing!
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