APNG kickstarter includes GIMP in stretch goal
I just noticed this kickstarter for FOSS APNG tools:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/374397522/apngasm-foss-animated-png-tools-and-apng-standardi
APNG is a format for making PNG animations, sort of like a "better
animated GIF", with 24-bit colour, real transparency, and possibility
for smaller file sizes with the same image.
They've reached their minimum goal, but not yet the following stretch
goal:
$12,500: GIMP implementation complete with a robust animation editor
(that can hopefully be used for other animation formats in the
future such as WebP).
They've got 10 days to go, and $3,710 left to be pledge, before they
have enough to make a GIMP implementation (I'm assuming as a plugin?).
(Also, for Inkscape people, they say at $32,000 they'll make "A keyframe
animation editor with basic tween animation features for Inkscape
complete with SVG+SMIL output and export to APNG".)
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
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