WebShocker 1.0

WebShocker 1.0 lets you create Web animations on a Mac.

Accompanying the software is an extensive user guide that takes you through the basics of

animations and tells you all about the software. It also carries a number of packaged

animations that give you an incentive to be more creative.

Creating animations in WebShocker is fast and fairly easy.

For a new animation you can specify options like animation size, width, height, bit depth,

etc. The software opens up three windows–frame, paint, and playback–that help

you in making animations. alt="The Animation Window Set of frame, paint, and playback windows makes it easy to create animations in WebShocker"

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The Frame window lets you manipulate individual frames that

make up your animation. You can cut, copy, and paste frames from one animation to another.

You can insert PICT, JPEG, GIF, etc, files into your animation. You can also set the frame

delay, that is, the time after which the frame will be replaced by the next one, in

centi-seconds. Reordering the frames is easy too.

The Paint window displays the frame that is currently

selected in the Frames window, and helps you create or edit individual frames. It has its

own set of paint tools and an attributes palette that lets you edit an image inserted in a

particular frame, or helps you create a new one. You can also add transformations, such as

rotation and scaling to all or just a part of the image. Its "Onion Skin"

feature lets you position your image with reference to the previous and/or next frame.

The third window is used to preview or playback the

animation. Using this you can play or stop your animation. You can also play a particular

frame. As the animation plays the current frame number and the time elapsed is shown at

the bottom of the Playback window.

WebShocker has more than 20 transition effects, such as

push, slide, wipe, etc. With these you can generate an entire animation from just one or

two images. All you’ve to do is select the image and the effect you want to add to

it, and WebShocker will do the rest for you. The Effects dialog box takes quite some time

to come up.

By default, WebShocker saves your animation in its native

format. But it lets you export it in a variety of formats including GIF, Java Animation

(GIF and JPEG), etc. Your browser doesn’t require any plugins to view the animations

created in WebShocker.

WebShocker 1.0.2 is available from href="http://www.recosoft.com">www.recosoft.com for $39.95. All in all, a

user-friendly tool that you would love to use.