Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

I'm using Mermaid, Excalidraw and PlantUML diagrams to explain and document what I'm working on and they work great and are a lot better than screens of prose, but I've become aware that something is missing: motion. Animation brings a whole lot more to explanations, making simple explanations of how request coalescing works easy to understand, token simulations [0] through to helping explain concepts like Fresnel lenses [1]. Embedding them into GitHub READMEs, tweets and documentation would be awesome. Google do it to illustrate posts (e.g. https://ift.tt/z7TnAqi). I found Excalidraw Claymate [2] but the stop motion approach with no tweening support makes it painful to create animations where circles move from place to place. There's also Manim [3] but I think this is more for maths. Adobe Flash used to be the go-to; what do you reach for when you want to illustrate a concept with an animated diagram? 0. https://ift.tt/Ios1Xf6 1. https://ift.tt/YGR5LNQ 2. https://ift.tt/4CbhMBk 3. https://ift.tt/VWfuKcn

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