Animating made Easy

It's time for another update already! Here is what has been changed on the site today.

Stick Figure Theme
You asked for more actions... Here you go! We updated the theme to include more fighting actions both hand-to-hand combat and using firearms. We also added so more generic actions like lying down, kneeling down, different walks and swinging stuff. You may also realize the stick figures now have super powers and can wear new headgear that will surely remind you of a popular cartoon series... we let you guess what it is.

Renaming Movie States
It's always a bit tricky to rename something on a site already launched for a while, but we thought this relabeling was worth it and hopefully will help new users better understand the different states available to save your movies.


Now on the save movie screen in the animation studio, you can choose to save your animation as draft (the old private no sharing state) or to publish the animation. Once you publish the animation you can choose to publish it as public (the old public state) so that anyone can watch it or as private (the old private sharing on state) so that only people you give the URL to can watch it. In private state you can also share the animation on social networks.


We hope the change won't be too confusing at first. You will see that on your user page the labels for your movies have been updated as well.

Published Date
As we made this change, we also introduced the concept of a published date. From now on after you turn your animation to public, we will record the published date and this date will not change in the future. This means that even though you edit a published movie, that date will remain the same and the movie will not show in the latest list. This will help making sure that the movies on the watch page are all "fresh"!

Basically, if you want to republish your movie with a new date, the only way to do so is to make a copy of that movie, which means losing all the stats of the movie.

As usual, let us know your comments regarding these changes.