[ANN] Sprite Studio - Please Read!

[Ando Sonenblick <ando@...>]

Gang,

After a vast amount of effort, I'd like to announce that I've finally  
completed my flagship product - Sprite Studio!

And first off, I'd like to thank you all for all your help on this  
list, as Sprite Studio has lua fully embedded in it, and I could not  
have built this product without Lua and without the help from all you  
helpful and generous souls on this list!

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So, what is Sprite Studio?   It is a General Purpose 2D Multimedia  
Authoring Environment designed to empower users to create three primary  
types of content:

   • Desktop Content:

Create Custom, Stand-Alone, Fully-Interactive, Graphic- and  
Animation-Intensive cross-platform Mac/Window Desktop Applications (no  
Mac or Windwos development knowledge necessary).   Think of quickly  
making games, edutainment, eBooks, kiosks, presentations, simulations,  
UI Mockups, CD-ROMs, Interactive Documentation and more.

(Aside: remember a while back on this list, someone asked if there are  
any development environments that use Lua and can be used to create  
stand-alone executable apps - well, Sprite Studio is just such a  
development environment!   And does exactly that!  Think of it as an  
IDE with lua as its scripting language: drag-n-drop your image, sound,  
movie, animation and font assets, arrange and configure them, then  
finally define lua scripts to fully orchestrate their behavior,  
interaction, and so on!)

   • Web Content:

Design and output Static or Animated GIF Banners, Linear Flash Movies,  
and JPEG images for the web.    From the very simple to the heavily  
animated and quite sophisticated.

   • QuickTime Content:

Create QuickTime movies from scratch or take an existing one and output  
a new movie of it with additional Titling, Transitions, Effects,  
Animations and much more.

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I'd really appreciate it if you take a look at Sprite Studio - just  
check it out,  please!   Being an individual developer of a  
full-fledged product, its supporting website, documentation and so on  
has been such a monumental task for me that it'd mean a lot if you took  
at look at my final product.

My main web site:        http://www.spritec.com
Sprite Studio page:      http://www.spritec.com/ssmain.htm
Sample SS output:       http://www.spritec.com/ssgallery.htm
Free Trial download:   http://www.spritec.com/freetrial.htm

More impressive samples will come in the months ahead as I (and others)  
can now begin to use Sprite Studio in earnest.

By the way, the animated banners on my website were (of course) made in  
Sprite Studio!

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Again, I really appreciate all the help all of you have contributed to  
me and ultimately to this project over the past many, many months.  I  
could not have built Sprite Studio without all your input and shared  
experience and knowledge.

A huge thanks to you all!

Ando Sonenblick
   SpriTec Software
      ando@spritec.com