Awesome Animator News

The latest version of Awesome Animator now has Unicode support. Which means that you can use it with Japanese font for example.

The text here is こんにちは私の日本人の友達が！ which Google translate tells me says “Hello Japanese people!” Which probably means it says no such thing!

Unicode can be used in buttons and text boxes. You will need to use a font supporting Unicode such as “MS Mincho” or “Arial Unicode“. It is best to write out the Unicode first and then paste it in to a Awesome Animator text box because the characters may not show up in the dialog box.

Unicode was requested using our “bug tracking” feature.

The very latest version now supports Unicode in animated titles:

Over the recent weeks we’ve made some improvements to Awesome Animator. These include performance enhancements, bug fixes and additions. You can download the latest version (12th Feb 2010) from the Awesome Animator download page.

One of the new improvements is that Awesome Animator now allows you to open Flash animation SWFs containing Actionscript 3.0, change the graphic content and then re-export them. (Be aware, however, that changing the content of someone’s animation or game, may violate their copyright.) At present you are not able to edit Actionscript 3.0 code in AA although you can see a list of classes and functions contained in the SWF. If there is a high demand we may add Actionscript 3.0 editing at a later time.

We’ve also added a bug reporting facility which should help speed up the process of fixing bugs. Any bugs that are reported with this facility we shall prioritise. It speeds things up considerably if you can describe how to replicate the bug in the shortest number of steps. As always, we provide all updates free to existing users so it’s a win-win situation! We believe the latest version of AA to be the most stable and fastest yet.

Awesome Animator is now go! We have uploaded Awesome Animator to the website so you can download it and use it free for 2 weeks! We are confident you will love this software and wonder how you used your computer without it all this time. We love to hear about people using Awesome Animator, so whether you decide to purchase the software after the two week trial or not send us your comments. Either post them here or email us. Contact details are on our website at awesomeanimator.com.  Also, we will be updating our main website shortly so if you have some ideas of things you would like to see let us know.

We are putting the finishing touches to Awesome Animator, the animation software for your PC, laptop or netbook for creating most excellent animations.

What kind of animations can you make? You can make:

• Flash animations to tun on your desktop or on a website
• Canvas animations which will work on iPad and iPhone supporting HTML5
• Video animations to post on to YouTube

You can also create vector artwork which can be exported in SVG, Silverlight and some other vector formats.