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HTML5 and flash animations?
14 years ago
Everyone says html5 is the future.
Being a flash animator, I realize most people use flash purely for streaming video, and the occasional flash game. If game coders and video streaming can switch to html5, the internet will be better, right? But that means flash animators have no medium to animate with. Of course, we can always export to video, but nothing's better than the awesome vector graphics goodness that flash animations come from, and in the highest possible video quality (actually, because it was never converted to video)
Adobe has stopped developing flash player for android. So android users are stuck at flash player 11. This is no problem, at least for me, as all my animations, being made in flash cs4, are always exported in flash player 10 format. This means any device that supports flash player should still able to play it, even with the (not yet) outdated flash player 11 for android.
Unless a developer (or adobe) allows exporting of flash animations to html5 files or a vector animation program with similar functionality with flash, I doubt I will make the switch.
But wait! Google created a swf to html5 converter, and even a plugin to export the html5 files directly from flash. It's called swiffy. It can be found here:http://www.google.com/doubleclick/s.....extension.html
I've tried exporting one of my flashes to this format. It runs really well on the computer (you can test it out here: http://dl.dropbox.com/0/view/id901n.....q/fb5.swf.html). I've ran it on my phone (an LG optimus 2x), and it lags a bit, even adobe flash itself has better performance. I'd expect an iPhone to play this well, especially with all the html5 support that apple brags about. The original flash: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5586628/
And that it doesn't support streaming sound (for now) is kind of a bummer. Also, coding doesn't seem to work well, the preloader just skips straight to the main animation. So no html5 for now! Sorry guys, you got to wait. Probably a few years.
Oh, I think FA should allow html5 uploads in the near future. Not now, it's way too soon, but probably when html5 becomes more popular.
Being a flash animator, I realize most people use flash purely for streaming video, and the occasional flash game. If game coders and video streaming can switch to html5, the internet will be better, right? But that means flash animators have no medium to animate with. Of course, we can always export to video, but nothing's better than the awesome vector graphics goodness that flash animations come from, and in the highest possible video quality (actually, because it was never converted to video)
Adobe has stopped developing flash player for android. So android users are stuck at flash player 11. This is no problem, at least for me, as all my animations, being made in flash cs4, are always exported in flash player 10 format. This means any device that supports flash player should still able to play it, even with the (not yet) outdated flash player 11 for android.
Unless a developer (or adobe) allows exporting of flash animations to html5 files or a vector animation program with similar functionality with flash, I doubt I will make the switch.
But wait! Google created a swf to html5 converter, and even a plugin to export the html5 files directly from flash. It's called swiffy. It can be found here:http://www.google.com/doubleclick/s.....extension.html
I've tried exporting one of my flashes to this format. It runs really well on the computer (you can test it out here: http://dl.dropbox.com/0/view/id901n.....q/fb5.swf.html). I've ran it on my phone (an LG optimus 2x), and it lags a bit, even adobe flash itself has better performance. I'd expect an iPhone to play this well, especially with all the html5 support that apple brags about. The original flash: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5586628/
And that it doesn't support streaming sound (for now) is kind of a bummer. Also, coding doesn't seem to work well, the preloader just skips straight to the main animation. So no html5 for now! Sorry guys, you got to wait. Probably a few years.
Oh, I think FA should allow html5 uploads in the near future. Not now, it's way too soon, but probably when html5 becomes more popular.
And, of course, we all know why Flash for mobile got axed.
Swiffy has minor issues with coding. So it's just not possible to use it well yet.