Tumult has released Hype 1.0.4 (http://tumultco.com/hype), an update and trial version of its HTML5 animation builder for Mac OS X (10.6.6 and higher). It’s available from the Mac App Store for an introductory price of US$29.99.
Animations and interactive content made with Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads with no coding required. Hype sports a keyframe-based animation system. It leverages a recording system to create effective motions and transition, according to the folks at Tumult.
Hype’s scene editor is powered by WebKit (the engine behind Safari and Chrome). Users can invoke arbitrary JavaScript for flexibility and leverage Hype’s own JavaScript application programming interface to manipulate the document.
Exporting to HTML5 involves copying a few lines of HTML code into an existing document and moving a resources folder. Hype also supports publishing exported documents to Dropbox.
