SoftMotion
lightweight procedural motion tool for static 2D images and game assets
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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: animation and motion graphics software · 226 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- 2d-animation
- animation
- desktop-app
- game-tools
- gif
- image-animation
- +3 more
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Could you build this?
Partial While the UI for controlling parameters is straightforward, implementing robust 2D procedural motion, mesh deformation, and skeletal/vertex skinning requires specialized graphics programming.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a graphics stack using WebGL, WebGPU, or a framework like Pixi.js/Three.js with custom vertex shaders for procedural deformation (waving, breathing, secondary physics). The hardest parts are automatic mesh generation (Delaunay triangulation) from alpha masks and inverse kinematics or harmonic deformation math for 2D sprites.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3214 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1090 of 3215 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- procedural-almanac · github · 2026-10-19 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- procedural-pixel-creatures · github · 2026-10-01 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- GLEECH · github · 2026-10-14 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Effigy · github · 2026-10-14 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Journey · hn · 2026-02-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Light-sprite-renderer · github · 2026-09-20 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- PlayJev · github · 2026-09-17 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- motion-graphics · github · 2026-09-25 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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