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Technology Stocks : Totally Hip Software Inc. (THW) - Just the Facts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: VentureCap who wrote (2)	10/19/1998 11:29:00 AM
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Check out this great comparison article: Webpainter 3.0 Totally Hip Software WebPainter vs. Corel Web.Graphics Suite by Matthew Johan Add New Life to Your Site Want to put some eye-catching animation on your Web site? You don't have to be an artist or a rocket scientist to fill your site with effective,low-bandwidth animations. Whether you're a beginning or veteran Web builder, Totally Hip Software WebPainter and Corel Web .Graphics Suite offer easy and affordable ways to jump-start your static Web pages. WebPainter acts as an artist's tool, letting you paint animations frame by frame. Web .Graphics Suite is ideal for beginners; it loads you up with plenty of premade animations and easy Web-creation tools. WebPainter Web.Graphics Suite Extremely easy to use. Exports to AVI, animated GIF, Java, and other formats. System Requirements: Windows 95, 486 CPU, 8MB of RAM, 5MB of hard disk space. Competition: Low-cost animation tools like Anawave Egor Animator and Andover VideoCraft have more output options, but aren't as good for drawing animations. $99 est. street price VERDICT: The easiest way to make Web animations on the cheap, but its power is limited. Totally Hip Software , (604) 685-6525 Total control over your animations. Several import and export file-format options. Great price for what you get. System Requirements: Windows 3.1, 486 CPU, 8MB of RAM, 10MB of hard disk space, CD-ROM drive. Competition: There are better solutions for each tool included in Web.Graphics, but no one offers as comprehensive a package for the price. $199 est. street price VERDICT: A complex but powerful way to turn existing content into high-powered Web animations. Corel Corp., (800) 772-6735, (613) 728-3733 Paint and Play Totally Hip's WebPainter is perfect for creating animations from scratch. Simply paint or import your images one frame after another and set the runtime. When you export your creations, you can choose from a healthy list of formats, including AVI, animated GIF, QuickTime, and even Java. The interface is clean and filled with familiar buttons and toolbars. There's plenty of assistance for drawing your own animations, like an onionskinning feature that shows the previous frame as you draw the next one. But if you plan on importing elements, you may be out of luck. WebPainter supports only AVI, BMP, and GIF files for importing--so if you already have graphics or video in formats like JPEG, MPEG, or EPS, you'll have to convert all of them. That's a needless and time-consuming process. Web Everything Got a library of digital video files that you want to convert into small Web animations? Corel Web.Graphics is your pick. The suite comprises six products including a drawing program, VRML and HTML authoring tools, a graphics library, an HTML conversion tool, and a Web animation tool called Web.Move. Unlike WebPainter, Web.Move imports several file formats, including AVI and JPEG. And it exports your creations into all the regular formats, including Java--as well as a couple of less common ones, like MPEG. While Web.Move isn't ideal for drawing your own animations, it offers plenty of control over animation detail. You control the time line, motion pathways, and interactivity--like clicking on a mouse button to stop an animation. You can even include sounds if you export animations as Java applets. The package also includes hundreds of graphics and animations to help get you started. Unfortunately, tapping all of Web.Move's power doesn't come easy. The interface and unfamiliar toolbars aren't as intuitive as we'd like. So which Web animation tool is for you? If you need to create simple Web animations, WebPainter makes a lot of sense and costs only $99. But if you're a newcomer looking for a complete Web development solution, Corel's $199 Web.Graphics Suite is a better choice.