This is a small utility for transforming KanjiVG images into animated SVG or GIF files, or SVGs that can easily animated via Javascript (with no library dependency!).
- SVG samples (animated via CSS, no SMIL/ element):
- GIF samples:
(these GIFs are 150x150 and have size 24k and 30k. With transparent background the generated image are quite bigger ~220k unluckily).
- Javascript controlled SVG:
See the Demo on the Project Page.
First install by running python setup.py install
To download the KanjiVG SVGs to be animated, run git submodule update --init --recursive.
If you want to generate animated GIFs, you will need to separately install these packages:
- svgexport Node.js library for exporting SVG to PNG.
- ImageMagick to merge PNGs into a GIF.
- Gifsicle to optimize GIF size.
Then just run
./kanimaji.py --svg --js-svg --gif
with whichever types of animations you want to generate as parameters, and the files will appear in ./converted/.
Just edit the settings.py file, all settings are explained there.
This software is formally released under MIT/BSD (at your option). You are free to do what you want with this program, please credit my work if you use it. If you find it useful and feel like, you may give a donation on my github page!