AnimationMaker, create presentation videos from Ubuntu

About AnimationMaker

In the next article we are going to take a look at AnimationMaker. This is software designed to help the user to quickly create a presentation video that you can later upload to platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo. These presentation videos are very useful when using them as videos for crowdfunding or all kinds of tutorials, for example.

AnimationMaker It has been a discovery. It is an incredible application that allows you to create animated presentations without having advanced or specific knowledge to use the program and achieve impressive results.

For those who have not tried other programs to create these types of animated video presentations, I personally see this as a very interesting tool due to its simplicity to help make an animated presentation quickly. Those who have tried this type of program will see that its simplicity is very interesting.

AnimationMaker Features

AnimationMaker

As published by the developer, this application born using Adobe Edge as a source of inspiration. Which apparently is no longer available.

Different changes have been added in the latest version of AnimationMaker, such as the ability to load plugins written in python for import and export. In addition it is done possible to create animated gifs using the exportMovie.py plugin (which we will see how to install later).

The application will allow us to edit the attenuation curve for the transition between images. The font of text objects will also be capable of being edited. Another feature that this new version offers us is that the timeline is no longer limited, as it seems to be the case in other versions.

The highlight of this program is that the element resizes as long as the Shitf key is held down. In turn, it will keep the element centered. The scene or unique elements can now be export to XML, as well as it will allow us to import them from that same language.

AnimationMaker will also provide us with a proofreader, which includes features like; A color editor will allow us to eliminate all the elements that we have selected by pressing the DEL key. At the same time we can change the ID of the elements as well as we will be allowed to change their opacity.

Download AnimationMaker .AppImage

To install this software in our Ubuntu operating system we will have to download the .AppImage file from the project's Github page. Then it is time to give permissions to the downloaded file. First we are going to open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and then we add the following commands.

wget https://github.com/Artanidos/AnimationMaker/releases/download/v1.2/AnimationMaker-Linux-x86_64-1.2.AppImage
sudo chmod a+x AnimationMaker*

Before launching the application, we need to download some plugins to get more functions in the program. This add-ons will allow us to import and export animations.

#Instalar Python 2.7 y superior si no lo tienes instalado
sudo apt update && sudo apt install python2.7
#Es buena idea instalar ffmpeg
sudo apt install ffmpeg
#Cambia al directorio “/home/'nombre de tu usuario'/animationmaker/plugins”. Si el directorio no existe (es lo más lógico), crealo.
cd /home/'nombre de tu usuario'/animationmaker/plugins
#Ahora vamos a descargar los siguientes archivos (esto lo harás dentro de la carpeta indicada en la anterior orden)
wget https://github.com/Artanidos/AnimationMaker/releases/download/v1.2/exportXml.py
wget https://github.com/Artanidos/AnimationMaker/releases/download/v1.2/importXml.py
#Para exportar a gif animado descarga el siguiente archivo
wget https://github.com/Artanidos/AnimationMaker/releases/download/v1.2/exportMovie.py

Run AnimationMaker

Now is the time to execute the image of the application, the one that you downloaded with the first order that you have read in this article. To launch the application, we open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and in it we write the following command:

./AnimationMaker-Linux-x86_64-1.2.AppImage

If any user feels choked with the operation of the application, the developers put a video available to the user en Youtube. In it, newcomers to this program are taught to make a basic use of the program.

Its creator has said that if any user finds this tool useful or has a request to add any additional features, they just have to go to the GitHub page from AnimationMaker. From there, whoever wants to can get in touch with its creator.


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  1.   Marcelo Torres Miranda placeholder image said

    I couldn't download the image, do you have an alternative link?

    1.    Damien Amoedo said

      The .AppImage no longer works. Try the installation that we publish in this article.