Welcome on board! Please introduce yourself šŸ–

Hello, my name is Hans-Gerd ClaƟen and iā€™m working for a german newspapercompany located in aachen.

We discovered hype with version 2 and mostly use it in common with adobe dps apps.

My personal approach going along with hype is to have fun and learn. :slight_smile:

Last funproject was the pacman.

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I am the Tutorial Doctor

I am a learner/teacher and independent game developer

I have made a few personal projects with Hype and am looking forward to make tutorials and demos with Hype. I will create a github repository soon.

I am an intermediate programmer in Python and a somewhat novice at HTML, CSS, and Javascript (used it some but wasnā€™t a part of my learning goal until now.

Hype is my favorite design and animation tool.

The first animation tool I used was an app called pencil.

My favorite animated film is Toy Story.

Thank you for this awesome software!

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I thought Iā€™d say hi!

Iā€™m Jonathan Deutsch, the founder of Tumult (as in Tumult Hype ;)).

Iā€™m a software engineer by schooling and trade, but dabble a little in building businesses and art.

San Francisco is my home.

English is my native language. Despite my last name, I do not speak any German aside from a few words like biergarten, kaesespaetzle, and danke.

I have not made too much with Hype. I started working on Hype because I wanted to make an interactive site to show off photos from Europe and found hand-coding HTML5 too tedious. Hype still doesnā€™t have all the features I want to do this.

Iā€™d call myself advanced, though am constantly shocked at the techniques users come up with that I would not have envisioned.

My favorite design tool other than Hype is Interface Builder (part of Xcode).

The first interaction tool I used was HyperStudio running on System 7. Hype takes a lot of inspiration from my middle school memories of that app.

My favorite animated film is Revolutionary Girl Utena, but even Iā€™ll admit it makes no sense

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hi there!
my name is thomas strmiska. iĀ“m from austria. i studied graphic design for 4 years, then 5 years drums, percussion and keys. my goal always was to connect design and music without relying on anybody. starting working with apple classic II (no harddrive!), changing floppy-discs every time :laughing:, i learned a lot of software during the past years.
in developing of apps i found my approach. as german native speaker it was and still is today very hard to bite through english manuals about html5, css3, javascript, php, ā€¦ :alien:ā€™$??
but hype 1.5 was my best choice to save time in coding, animating and inserting music.
while still having troubles with javascript i developed a lot apps for children for a publishing company, based in austria,
all made with hype.
ā€¦ and its getting better and better - donĀ“t stop - let it flow ā€¦

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=misfit%20b.%20media&hl=de
https://itunes.apple.com/at/developer/misfitbmedia/id473657431
https://itunes.apple.com/at/developer/buchklub/id556883984

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Hi,

Iā€™m Gerfried from Austria. I used to be a software engineer and Iā€™m currently managing eLearning projects. Iā€™m building an online barista training and I believe in online courses which are very interactive. This is what I bought Hype for. While, as a former software developer, I could do it all manually, that would take way too much time and therefore wouldnā€™t lead anywhere. Iā€™m hoping to accomplish more with less time using Hype. The project is going up here, but Iā€™m still building, so I will post more concrete links once I have things to show. Iā€™m currently trying to make it easy for learners to intuitively understand coffee parameters (see screenshot).


My native language is German.
Iā€™m definitely an animation beginner (unless you count experience with blender as a teenager 15 years ago), and not a designer at all, but Iā€™m ok with the technical aspects of all this.
As Iā€™m getting to know Hype better, Iā€™ve started making screencasts of my progress and am considering putting the material up as an online course eventually. Due to my background, it would probably have more of an eLearning/interactive tools aspect than other courses. We shall see :slight_smile:

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Time to present myself, since I started to write on this forum months ago without doing itā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:

Who are you?
My name is Francesco Marino, I define myself as a 360Ā° CREATIVE MIND: I feel no limits to what I can do, Iā€™m hungry of knowledge and always in need to try new tools and techniques, thatā€™s why I suggest people to look at my CV/Portfolio as a reflection of my real potential and future evolutions. :wink:

What is your industry/profession?
My first love was pure programming, learned during my IT studies in high school but web and mobile technologies were my later choice for my degree in Web & Multimedia.
The need of expressing and transmitting emotions developed in me a strong ability in story-telling and visual arts like photography, motion graphic and video-making.
My natural tendency to perfectionism and minimalism pushed me to learn more about design and especially UI-UX, defining along with Web Animation my current focus.

Where do you call home?
Iā€™m born in the North of Italy but I never felt home there, right now Iā€™m living in Barcelona, which I love, but I still have some doubts about what to call ā€œhomeā€ā€¦ :sweat_smile:

What is your native language?
Iā€™m Italian but I speak fluent English (I lived in Oslo, Hong Kong and The Philippines) and good Spanish (right now Iā€™m living in Barcelona).

What have you made/planning on using Hype for?
In my last job I made a web interactive presentation for improving the marketing impact of the company, you can find it here (scroll a bit): https://www.behance.net/gallery/28262511/Social-Beyond

I recently updated my website with a new UI, itā€™s responsive so please check it also in a mobile, but I still have a lot of work to do and many ideas to implement: www.360FUN.net

I also made other things, like an interactive mockup for a UI-UX game designer testā€¦but those are not final products so for now I prefer to stop here. :wink:

Would you call yourself a beginner, novice, or advanced?
Iā€™m a beginner in terms of time, Iā€™m a novice in terms of job done but I prefer to consider myself an advanced since Iā€™ve a strong background/knowledge in all the fields involved into the creation of an Hype project: programming, design and animation.

Whatā€™s your favourite design/animation tool (Other than Hype)?
I worked with Adobe Flash but I never like it too much since Iā€™m for web standardsā€¦I definitely prefer Adobe After Effects, but is a different fieldā€¦

Whatā€™s the first interaction or animation tool you ever used? (Analog OR digital!)
I think Microsoft Power Point! ahahhahah :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

What is your favorite animated film?
Without any doubts ā€œThe Nightmare Before Christmasā€: I love stop motion!!! :smiley:

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Hello all,

  • My name is Gildas,
  • I am the owner/creator of a NPO (by cursus i am Dr. PhD. axed on 2 opposite fields/domains), but not about digital technology as webmaster or else!
  • I am living in Tokyo as an expat. and interested in ā€œlifeā€, i mean i dont want to be limited in one domain i see them in a systemic vision (what i learn, in any domains, will be useful for my global goals) :wink:
  • my native tongue is not english but can speak/understand some languages (i lived in Bcn, Portland, NY, Warsaw, France, and of course Japan)ā€¦
  • For my projects i needed a program to built websites which would be ā€œlimitedā€ only by my imagination, i tried a lot and never found one great, (but it was before I tried Hype Pro) :wink:
  • I am completely not an ā€œexpertā€ or a power user, in term of websiteā€™s building (far from skills of ppl of this forum), completely not my domain, definitely a beginner, but the ergonomy of Hype let me do great things (right now i am into Parallax processes, and love the possibilities that i can do with it), so i am on the way, and confident, to build my 3 websites!
  • I tried others programs (as RapidWeaver, or Webaccapellaā€¦) but none of them were intuitive and helped me on what i want to do! Also i never found a ā€œpersonā€ who could understand my vision of them from A to Z, so this is why i came to search ā€œhow toā€ as a DIY! And wanted to manage this part too and not depending of ppl, :wink:
  • I have tons of questions about ā€œhow toā€ and maybe optimizing my websites (right now they are definitely slow: 4 or 5s of charging time, compared to complex ones done by Hype, so need to solve it as i need to find solutions on including blog, forum, and MySQL data base), and pretty sure to find answers by reading the topics and posts of all of you!
  • I dont put links of my websites cause it is not the time now, i will when they will be interesting to see (finishing parallax studies right now, will implant it to them)

Thx for reading,

NB: oh also FLASH is definitely my ā€œkryptoniteā€: i hate using it and my mac too :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

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My name is Greg
I am a graphic designer
Geneva / Switzerland
I speak French (so sorry for my crappy english)
Starting to prepare ads for our clients in Watchmaking and my curiosity, hope I can find answers to all the question I have.
I am a novice
Nothing I tried was intuitive enough, I ve practiced Flash a bit but made me sick. Specialist in Photoshop/Illustrator though
Keynote I guess

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Hello boys and girls. Happy Wednesday. Itā€™s a real pleasure to have found you all. Iā€™m a 37 year old Creative Director from the U.S. but currently living in a village in Tirol, Austria. Iā€™ve been working in interactive since around '96, first as a webmaster (of course) and later as a designer, UX, producer and many other things. Unfortunately I lost a bit of my dev skills along the way. Whippings allowed. Iā€™ve had Hype for a couple of years, but Iā€™ve just started really learning and using it, mainly for HTML5 banner ad creation. Iā€™m super stoked to have a community and I look forward to being an active part and meeting more of you.

Andrew Allen
Design Agency
Austria
English, but I speak a little German
Banners, banners, bannersā€¦and a few banners after that. Oh, boy!
Beginner
Favorite tool is Sketch
First interaction tool was notepad.
Fav non-animated film: The Tin Drum

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Who are you?
Jim Scott - Hello to Allā€¦ new to Hype (late January 2016).

What is your industry/profession?
Media Synthesis. Began with graphic design using a Mac Plus - circa 1987.

Where do you call home?
Napa Valley, California - just north of San Francisco.

What is your native language?
English.

What have you made with Hype ā€“ or what are you planning on using Hype for?
For my first assignment with Hype (or any HTML animation program) it seemed best to start with something simple & straightforward: Iā€™ve been hired to ā€œtranslateā€ into HTML5 an award winning Flash-based interactive documentary: ā€œBecoming Humanā€ - created approximately 15 years ago for the Institute of Human Origins - founded by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, the discoverer of ā€œLucyā€ (Australopithecus afarensis). Over two thousand unique elements (graphics, images, text fields, soundtracks, object movies, etc.) went into the original production, all beautifully done and cutting edge for the technology of the day.

Below is the opening screen for the new HTML5 version of the Documentaryā€¦
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To view the Flash version of the documentary please see:
http://www.becominghuman.org/node/interactive-documentary

Would you call yourself a beginner, novice, or advanced?
Novice.

Whatā€™s your favorite design/animation tool (Other than Hype)?
Appleā€™s Motion app; power wrapped in an easy to use interface. I believe that Hype, as it evolves, could borrow many of Motionā€™s productivity conventions re: the timeline.

Whatā€™s the first interaction or animation tool you ever used? (Analog OR digital!)
Analog: Puppets + a puppet ā€œtheaterā€ opened a whole new world of expression when I was 3.
Digital: HyperCard. Still a touchstone for me of an innovative, elegant program. But HyperTalk itself was the real achievement (thank you Dan).

What is your favorite animated film?
No favorite. The animated sequence (camera+models) of the flight to the space station in ā€œ2001: A Space Odysseyā€ is brilliant - even today.

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Who are you?
The name is Dennis van Leeuwen. Born Dutch (Netherlands), but have been living in Germany for over 10 years. Illustrating and making it come to life is what I like. But I donā€™t spend enough time with it.

Here are some images:
Itā€™s me working on a childs face.

Here is a finished portrait. I think I am influenced of the cartoones I saw in the 80ā€™s.

And an unfinished quickdrawing half colored.

He-Man drawing style. :wink:

What is your industry/profession?
I work in the advertisement industry. Do it for myself. Work for a company called Hirschen Group GmbH in Germany. And together with a partner I am starting up xmuse.it. Itā€™s a Widget-Producing company that sells it digital products via Envato for Adobeā€™s quickest growing software atm. called Muse. It just released itā€™s responsive version. I personally think we are still in Beta. But the team and engineers at Adobe thought itā€™s ready. I have been testing software for a long time. And Adobe products are a known topic of mine. But me (Marketing, UI, Design and Documentation) and Tobias (Programming and Financing) have been in development for almost 1 year now. Our segments is specialized in animation, interactions. Bringing this to Adobe Muse with ease. I looked at all the products made and always found them too complex for non coders to understand. Even Designers think different. I looked at it for 2 years and thought ā€“ no, no, no, no. Need to grab me a programmer and steer this.

It also explains my absence here. :slight_smile: Back to my profession: My first job was in 1995 as a Desktop Publisher. Worked with many Adobe, Quark and Macromedia products over the years. Even Coreldraw, Micosoft products. Over the years my trade has evolved in Desktop Publisher ā€“ Print & Digital.
That means, I produce the following:

  • All Print products ready for printing, embossing, punch production.
  • Color corrections Print & Digital images
  • Post production on images. (I once had to build Gisele BĆ¼ndchen from 3 different pictures. I donā€™t have to rights to show it.)
  • Produce online banners (I hope a lot more with Hype)
  • Produce digital outdoor advertisement (motion graphics, storytelling)
  • Frontend landing pages
  • Social media apps and advertisement
  • EPUB (digital magazines/app)

Where do you call home?
I call home the place inside my head where no one can reach me. Best combined with a headset and trance music on. Look at me back then:

What is your native language?
I donā€™t believe in one native language. But to answer this question: Dutch.

What have you made with Hype ā€“ or what are you planning on using Hype for?
I think about 87 Banners now. I would like to produce more but time is not on my side and I am a visual person. Coding doesnā€™t give me a clear view of what I need to see. So I tend to get lost often. I need to draw what I want and see its function before I can code it. I think the right term is flowchart. That can get messy sometimes. :sweat_smile:

What is on the horizon?
Info graphics, small animations, even book or workshops are on the roadmap. I like illustrating and making it come to live. I have this small website of a friend of mine. It has a lovely animation at the start. Was made back then in Adobeā€™s Edge Animate CC.

Would you call yourself a beginner, novice, or advanced?
Always a beginner. After each goal I see the next one.

Whatā€™s your favorite design/animation tool (Other than Hype)?
Pencil and paper and my fantasy. That doesnā€™t always come together with what I can produce inside a software tool.

Whatā€™s the first interaction or animation tool you ever used? (Analog OR digital!)
My first OS was MS DOS (age 7) and later QBasic form Microsoft. And I remember after booting I used PCPaint.

What is your favorite animated film?
Peteā€™s Dragon. Elliot (the Dragon) just has the right language for anything.

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Hi all. I am Anders, illustrator/painter/writer and sometimes even bus driver, living in Stockholm. Native language Swedish, plus English, French and German, in that order.
Used Hype for some time, but still learning. My web site is a Hype thing, not responsive but small. (www.epx.se) Now building a Hype only responsive web site for an old 600 mm railroad club, and ran into a problem, see belowā€¦
I used (and teached) Flash a lot, but Hype is much better.
I am not a programmer, I recognize and know how to steal and sometimes alter some code, but canā€™t write JavaScript myself. CSS and HTML is ok. I publish all with Dreamweaver.
I am a dedicated Mac user since 1988 and used/teached/beta tested/reviewed Illustrator, Photoshop, Painter (still have itā€™s predecessor Sketcher on an os9 Macā€¦) all from their first versions up to most current. Used Wacom Cintic, today iPadPro and Pencil, nice products!
Will not forgive Adobe for killing Dimensions, the old french vector 3D app Satellite, that ended up as a lame 3D filter in Illustrator, with no 3D object export, no morphing etceteraā€¦ But I keep a copy of Dimensions for those interested! And Hyper Card, my first interaction tool. Today I use Hyper Dither for the cool B/W raster image effects, try it, very HyperCardish!
My favorite animated film? Thatā€™s easy: Geriā€™s Game.

My urgent need now: Want to go to a specific time in another scene. How is that done?
Tried to add a second action to a button in scene A:

1.Go to scene B
2.Go to time blabla in main timeline

But no showā€¦ Maybe a timing problem?
Really need to do this! Any help much appreciated!

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Hi,
this is Peter from Germany ā€¦

Bought Hype 3 today on iTunes. Had programmed a website with a little knowledge in html, php & flash before. But Apple started to hate Flash and it had no future.

For the first day, it works very well:

I am composing Jazz/Funk/R&B-Music

I am satisfied with the result ā€¦ (today) :wink:

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Hi everybodyā€¦
Iā€™m a graphic designer in Austin, TX, USA. Iā€™ve made my way here while researching many different ways to make an embedded YouTube widget. I have a client who wants his iBook to play parts of his tutorial video. I started out with Adobe Edge Animate, then iAd Producer, only to get nonfunctioning widgets and then find out support for both of those apps are being discontinued. Ugh. I found several people and tutorials online praising Tumult Hype to the skies, so I hit that Free Trial button about 30 minutes ago and here I am! I want to learn to make many different widgets and stuff for iBooks and websites. Iā€™m impressed with the potential here. Looks like it is poised to take over where Adobe left Edge Animate.
-LJG

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Hello Everyone,
My name is Tom Roche, born in Tullamore but now I live here in the south-west of Ireland in a lovely town called Killarney. I am a furniture-maker by trade but in more recent years I run a small Irish Charity which I founded in 1989 called Just Forests www.justforests.org

Through Just Forests I try to raise the awareness of the importance of natural resources to our survival using wood as the "hook" of engagement.

I see technology as a great vehicle for engaging people in my Just Forests work and am now trying to learn HYPE - specifically I want to make our award-winning KNOW-WOOD Board for schools INTERACTIVE. So I have quite a learning curve to negotiate.

In May of this year we will host the Killarney Celebration of Trees weekend which will run from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 May- its all about raising awareness of the priceless contribution trees makes to society. You can have a look at the dedicated website here www.killarneycelebrationoftrees.com

Anyway back to HYPE! I have been dabbling in HYPE for over a year but still not confidant. Anyone out there that can help a financially struggling Irish charity to make our KNOW-WOOD Board INTERACTIVE? Any suggestions warmly welcome.

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Hi everyone, my name is Filippo and live in Italy.
Iā€™m a musician, and I deal with music, website, and graphics. I met Hype during network searches and would like to learn more about this wonderful program.

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Hi Filippo, I've played the guitar since i was teenager - I just started learning the pedal steel guitar and I love it...

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oh my Godā€¦ wonderfulā€¦ It must be beautiful to play it. :grinning:

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