Today I’m pleased to release a set of tutorials built in Tumult Hype. They are hands on documents for with tricks and techniques for animations, elements, timelines, and easing. You can download these tutorials here. Please note that you’ll need a copy of Tumult Hype to open these documents (we have a 14 day trial available). [...]
Notes from an Infographic Craftsman: Interview with Konstantinos Antonopoulos
We’re fans of data visualizations and infographics at Tumult, so we’re naturally thrilled when we see Tumult Hype being used by news organizations like Reuters and the LA Times. We last explored infographics here with Bart De Neve’s infographics for De Standaard. To continue the conversation, I (virtually) sat down with one of our favorite Tumult Hype [...]
Myth busting the HTML5 performance of transform:translate vs. top/left
I recently came across Christian Heilmann’s Five things you can do to make HTML5 perform better article, where point number three is to use CSS Transforms instead of position and top/left when moving elements across a page. It is a practice increasingly championed, such as in the noted Paul Irish video, Why Moving Elements With [...]
CSS Filter Effects in Practice
Setting a filter effect like ‘blur’ or ‘saturation’ on an image using CSS can create an interesting tech demo, but what’s the point? Why go to the trouble to manipulate an image in the browser when it can be easily edited in an image editor? When we added CSS filter effects to Tumult Hype, we [...]
Tumult Hype 1.6.1 Update Released
We’ve just released Tumult Hype version 1.6.1! Thanks to all our users for bug reports and sharing awesome animations with us. Go grab this update. The 1.6.1 update includes some important bug fixes and is recommended for everyone to upgrade. The most important note about this release is that we’ve changed the “.resources” export folder [...]
Final Day for Tumult Hype Sale (Sale is now over)
(The sale is over. Thanks!) Today is the last day of our 15% off sale. If you were waiting to grab Tumult Hype, today is the day: Grab it on the Mac App store! We’re also pleased to announce that Tumult Hype licenses may be bought with Bitcoins (learn about Bitcoins here). At this time one [...]
Announcing Tumult Hype 1.6 with Filter Effects
Tumult Hype is the award-winning HTML5 animation builder for OS X. It has been used for all kinds of different projects, like infographics, porfolios, NASA roadmaps, mobile ads, greeting cards, museum kiosks, children’s books and much, much more. Our new update, Tumult Hype 1.6, contains 35 new features and has several bug fixes and performance improvements. We are beyond excited to get it in your [...]
The Future Brought to You by NASA | Technology Infographic
NASA’s amazing contributions to our knowledge of rockets and space travel are just a small part of what they do. Decades of research have pushed materials science, health, information technology, and many unexpected fields to new frontiers. NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist commissioned an interactive poster to present the 14(!) technology areas central to [...]
“Liv and Ingmar” – documentary film site
Inge Trondsen of Studio Design (Norway) just launched a site for the film Liv and Ingmar which he built with Tumult Hype. The film explores the tumultuous love between Liv and Ingmar Bergman (one of my favorite film directors). I asked Inge what he likes about using Tumult Hype: As a designer, I love Tumult [...]
Tumult Hype Bug Fix Update: 1.5.2
Today’s Tumult Hype update resolves a number of bugs, implements Dropbox’s new sharing and authentication method, and makes Tumult Hype even more stable. Minor fixes for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Retina displays Workaround for Chrome/Safari 6 issue where scenes flicker images when using Dropbox Fixed issues where z-ordering may be incorrect inside [...]
