Axis

Axis is a stick figure animator for keyframed animation. Axis is inspired by Pivot but instead of forcing you to change every frame like a flipbook, Axis lets you simply add keyframes and the in-betweens are automatically interpolated.

Demo

Screenshots

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Usage

Add blank frames to the timeline by pressing the Create Frame button or pressing N.

Create keyframes with the Create Keyframe button or by pressing Space.

On a selected keyframe, you can move around a stick figure by clicking on its name in the timeline and then clicking and dragging its joints.

Preview your animation by pressing the Animate button or pressing Enter.

Setup

Prerequisites:

• Perl and CPAN
• Node and NPM

Run the following commands:

bower install
cpanm Mojolicious::Lite
cpanm File::Slurp

Additionally, install jsgif into public/jsgif.

Running the server

Locally

morbo index.pl

Remotely for production

ssh -n -f user@domain "sh -c 'cd /var/www/axis/html; nohup morbo -m production -l http://*:3000 index.pl > /dev/null 2>&1 &'"