Saola Animate is an ultimate tool to create HTML5 animations and interactive web content. Besides exporting to HTML5 output, the release of the latest version - Saola Animate 3.0 - allows you to export projects to video formats for demonstration purposes. With an intuitive editor, you can do almost everything with no coding skills required.
Regarding animations, Saola Animate operates on a keyframe-based animation system that helps create animations more easily than ever. Saola Animate also offers Preset Effects and Auto-Keyframe mode that automatically generates keyframes when creating animations. This helps save your time and speed up your work.
Furthermore, the perfect combination of the responsive layout, responsive scaling and flexible layout gives your animations the optimal viewing across any devices and browsers with different screen sizes.
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I've been looking for a replacement for Tumult Hype since i switched to pc from mac (2 years i guess), and i'm happy to have found an even better alternative at a similar price tag and same proprietary license. More on Saola vs Hype further down *
Saola Animate is perfect for making advanced, interactive (!) object based (timeline) animations that can be exported to html5 as well as video, the UI is great and the price reasonable. Saola Animate can be used for lots of things, and if you happen to hit a wall, custom JavaScript functions, CSS and HTML can be added. Though, this shouldn't be needed for most projects. Try the 30 days trial.
You can find official tutorials on youtube and an active user forum, where the devs are quick to respond as well.
I also like that Saola Animate is from Atomi, a Vietnamese company. It's uplifting to see great software not developed in USA or Europe, China, Japan or Russia.
Since it's a while ago i've used Hype, there might have been added more features, but the benefits i've seen so far in Saola compared to Hype are these:
Please comment if i'm wrong about any of this, or if you have more to add to the list
Outstanding software, outstanding features and outstanding support.
As a long time user of the now defunct Opus Professional software by Digital Workshop, I was in urgent need of an application that would allow me to continue building bespoke high quality HTML5 content for my clients.
Although marketed as an animation tool, Saola Animate is an exceedingly powerful HTML5 content development tool capable of creating a wide range of interactive web solutions. Within the last year alone, I've created a fully responsive web login front-end for an LMS, a high functional teaching application for primary mathematics, and a large interactive and animated e-learning module.
It was not the first tool I tested to replace Opus, having looked at several Adobe products, Storyline and Rise and briefly Hype but here at Interaktiv we have a motto - to solve your problem, we build a solution - and Saola Animate allows me to build what I want the way I want.
It's still only on version two but has all the core functionality needed. There are features I would like to see and the developers listen to suggestions and changes, where appropriate, have started to appear in their regular updates of minor versions.
If you need to build HTML5 content, I can highly recommend taking some time to learn how to use this software. Me, I'm looking forward to seeing what version three brings.
[Edited by mackavi, September 27]