Notes on Tumult Hype’s Cross-Browser Compatibility (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Almost Not Hate IE6)

One of Tumult Hype‘s top strengths is the ability to output content which can be displayed on a wide range of browsers across desktops, phones, and tablets. We put a lot of energy into making sure animations look great and run smoothly on Internet Explorer 6 to the latest Chrome 18. Apologies if we made [...]

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Tumult Hype 1.5.1 Released!

It’s our pleasure to announce the release of Tumult Hype version 1.5.1. This update features: Option-clicking the per-property add keyframe button will add keyframes to all properties on selected elements Copy/Paste scenes Bug fixes It is recommended that everybody upgrade. Please visit our detailed history page for more information.

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Artists and Tumult Hype: J Harley Gilmore’s Interactive Musical Minisite

It’s exciting to see photographers, architects, fine artists, and musicians (see below) create beautiful and interactive sites for themselves in Tumult Hype. Seeing so many creative people make use of Tumult Hype as an expressive tool makes us extremely happy. Today we’d like to spotlight a site Jimmy Gilmore created to showcase his drumming career. Jimmy writes that [...]

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Special Announcement: Tumult Acquires Adobe

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Pixels vs. Bandwidth: Tumult Hype documents and the new iPad’s retina display

The iPads arriving today across the world bring out amazing details in websites. Graphics and text are stunning on the 2048 x 1536 resolution screen, and this is great for the web and for Tumult Hype users. If you want to optimize your Tumult Hype animation for the new high resolution display we have a few [...]

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Create quality infographics by exploring original Tumult Hype project files

Every day we discover new projects, sites, and animations created with Tumult Hype on Twitter, in our Forums, and from your emails. Bart de Neve, a graphic journalist for the Belgian newspaper de Standaard, was kind enough to share with us a few of his recent infographics created in Hype: “How far can you drive with [...]

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It’s a big day: Tumult Hype 1.5 is here!

We’re pleased to announce the release of Tumult Hype 1.5! With Adobe recently dropping support for Mobile Flash, Tumult Hype has become a critical tool to making animated content for smartphones and tablets. This version is a major update containing over 30 new features, including: Export as iBooks Author widget Redesigned animation interface separating element [...]

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Easy HTML5 Animations in iBooks using Tumult Hype and iBooks Author

Update: Version 1.5 of Tumult Hype allows direct exporting to iBooks Author widgets. The below explanation is for version 1.0.5, but may be an interesting read if you’re interested in the inner workings of iBooks widgets… Yesterday Apple announced iBooks Author, an application that makes designing rich ebooks for the iPad as easy as creating [...]

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Tumult Hype won a Macworld Eddy!

Macworld’s editor’s choice awards: “recognize our favorite products released during the past year (from November 1, 2010 to November 1, 2011). It’s a task we take very seriously; starting with a list of over 130 candidates, we spend weeks discussing each product, debate its merits, and whether it fulfills our standards of quality, utility, innovation, [...]

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The anatomy of an advanced HTML5 banner created in Tumult Hype

Banner animated by Sasha Zivanovic with Tumult Hype It’s an exciting time for web animation. The accelerating development and adoption of web technologies are turning Flash developers, motion graphics professionals, and even print designers to create rich animations and interactive content for the web. Animators and designers of all backgrounds are turning to device-agnostic animation [...]

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