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@robi Is this like a web version of Principle? How is this unique from something like SVGator? And lastly, are you exporting objects as SVG from Figma (or other design tools) to bring into Jitter, or are you making them in Jitter first?
Thanks!
@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!
Jitter is the next go-to tool for visual creation.
As a priviledged early beta user I made an animation logo for my last product hunt launch, this would have never been possible without Jitter in such a short period of time.
@sleegal Awesome Gloria! Would love to know the specific needs of your team – for now we're at level 1 of collaboration (you can share files with the URL), but we want to make it great for working together too
@sleegal Sounds great, well please reach out to us after you play a bit more with the product: we'd love to understand how we can improve it for you :)
Wow - just tried the tool and it makes motion design so simple. Seems like a very obvious idea (« why don’t we have this already? » ) so it will boil down to execution which seems flawless so far. What’s next on the roadmap?
@robin_choy Thanks Robin! Here are a couple of exciting things right ahead:
- Animated components that you can use in 1 click and customize (like a company logo, a “get it on the App Store” button or more advanced titles / subtitles effects)
- Cascading animations
- Simple 3D models (phones, computers…) so you can make a demo of your app / website in situ
- Real-time collaboration
- and much more…
But most importantly: how could we improve Jitter for you / your team, so that we can prioritize the right things? Thanks!
@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@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!
Nice product, very easy to use. I'm looking forward to see how this talented team will make it evolve, I'm sure it will be the figma for motion design :)
Happy user of SnackThis.co, and participated in Jitter Beta. Great tool for both professional designers and non-professionals like myself. Moreover, very approachable team available to assist on emails. Good luck @robi and team with the launch and future enhancements!!
@aj_alkasmi Awesome! May I ask what you need animation for? Would love to know more about your specific use cases so we can make sure to improve the product in the right direction! 🙏
@robi Sure thing!
I'm actually preparing for a PH launch in a month or so for my startup, and was looking for a tool to help me 'animate' my logo so I could post a cool gif instead of a png of the logo. Couldn't find something I could use myself easily, so I figured I'd have to find someone from Fiverr. Now, I'm going to check out Jitter to see if I can do it that way! :)
@robi Thanks Sebastien! That's awesome. I was playing around with Jitter yesterday and love it. Was able to make a gif of my logo exactly the way I was hoping! However, I'm running into some problems with the export.
Do you have a support email I could reach out to / a way I can DM you directly?
Hey @hificarolina!
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!
@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
Wow! This is really great, useful and easy to use! The only thing I would like to do that is not here is to make longer animations (or combine a many as one)
@s_stanley Thanks Stanley! When you say “longer animations”, do you mean that you would you like to chain multiple scenes / artboards to make a longer video for instance?
@robi Exacly! I don't know if this is what you want to build. But to give an exemple, two days ago I was deeply searching for a platform for that. We tried iMovie but unsatisfied, so we used MotionDen, we even took a premium version, useful but it wasn't really what we were looking for. I would like a tool like this to present projects in videos or for online ads
@s_stanley Interesting! We'll be supporting multiple artboards in the future, so that you can either create animated components you can reuse in a larger artboard, or chain artboards together to create a longer video with transitions between artboards. Looking forward to it!
Sleek app.
Signed up. Gallery has all the things needed to get start. Pricing is quite humble. Super app. Used the power of web. Kudos.
PS: Adobe may be tracking your progress. Buckle Up.
@sanket_makhija Thanks Sanket! Yes the video / motion / animation community is pretty active these days, and this is great, can't wait to see where this leads us all :)
@giacintocarlucci Yes, you can use the tool for free, and you can export most of your creations at no cost. For HD exports in high resolution, we have a paid plan. All videos exports are 60fps though, even with the free version :)
I am on the look out for new tools to make our social media content fresh! Jitter helps in infusing that freshness into our content! Since it is browser base and UI is beginner friendly, I had no problem using it!
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