Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw

(inscribed.app)

106 points by chunza2542 4 days ago

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Inscribed.app, a slide-based tool for creating stop motions animation and slides.

I've been writing a lot of tech content lately and needed a way to create a stop motion to visualize ideas for my blog.

I'm a big fan of Excalidraw and Apple Keynote, so this tool is an attempt to combine the UX of the two together. Sketch like Excalidraw with a slide making interface (with shortcuts) like Apple Keynote.

Features: - keyboard shortcuts: copy/paste/del, up/down navigation - adjust document size - drag and drop images - google fonts integration - presentation mode - export as GIF, or as iframe to embed everywhere you want.

Try it yourself: https://inscribed.app

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXE8-6yEzw

Github: https://github.com/chunrapeepat/inscribed

Hope you like it. any feedback is welcome.

anitil 4 days ago

What a fantastic idea! I love using excalidraw and I've used it for making slides by just screenshotting and manually editing, this is so much nicer. I really like the example of following a flowchart as well.

One small nit - in your video you use some naughty words, if you're looking to sell this I'd consider dropping that. I probably can't share the video with my colleagues, for example

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  • chunza2542 4 days ago

    i'm glad you like it! for the naughty words, it a list of quote from my fav show, slicon valley, but yeah, i will do it better next times. appreciate your feedback.

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    • reynaldi 4 days ago

      i think youtube allows you to blur some parts of your video

      in case you don’t want to recreate the video

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yoz 4 days ago

This looks great! I love that it builds on top of existing tools has so many kinds of export already. Thank you so much for sharing it - I'm always looking for good tools for quick animation and presentations.

Like you, I'm a big fan of Keynote. It would be amazing to have Keynote-style smooth animation here too (tweening, easing curves, Magic Move, etc.), though I'm sure it would be a huge project in itself.

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  • chunza2542 4 days ago

    glad you like it! the animation features is interesting, noted.

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igniuss 3 days ago

Super neat! I made something similar with tldraw for presentations at my company, definitely not as clean as this! I'll be sure to give it a try for my next one

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emrekursun 2 days ago

It's really a great tool, well done! I enjoy using Excalidraw, and this tool makes a lot of sense, especially with the gif feature. However, would developing such an application cause any licensing issues?

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  • chunza2542 2 days ago

    no licensing issues. Excalidraw is published under MIT license. if my project keeps developing, we can contribute some parts back to Excalidraw. this is a win-win.

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michaelbrave 3 days ago

I primarily use excalidraw via a plugin for obsidian, I wonder what amount of effort it would take to get it running on that.

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  • chunza2542 2 days ago

    could you share the use case or elaborate more? (if you want to embed the content there you can edit on the web and export as iframe)

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foz 4 days ago

really nice! do you support onion-skinning for building smoother animations? Motion paths would be cool too. Ok enough ideas, it's a great project already!

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  • mephitix 4 days ago

    +1, onion skinning was the first thing i was looking for given it was billed as a way to create animation.

    Anyway, nice project, cool to see excalidraw hosted like this.

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    • dmje 19 hours ago

      Yeh, and duplicate slide option? I may be missing it, on iPad…

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reynaldi 4 days ago

this looks amazing, can't wait to use it for my next articles

also nice job on the video demo, was it made using inscribed? :p

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  • chunza2542 4 days ago

    screen studio + capcut + epidermic sound (and a little bit of inscribed xd)

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