Burning and re-ripping was a serious pain, AND you lose audio quality
when you convert to a .wav and then reconvert to .mp3. I am curious to
see who can crack the code first on all-you-can-eat always-on
streaming service - that would be a similar quality-of-life
improvement like the removal of DRM. I wish Apple had bought Spotify
instead of LaLa -- hope they will do something great with it though.

Totally - I remember we were right up there near them when they played.

Yes - I think the Trillions piece was done in After Effects. I wonder if there are or could be more specialized tools if the animanifesto form becomes more codified.

Like iClone or Animeeple for machinima. I guess you have to draw a distinction between integrating support for data (Alpha/Rosling-style, which Trillions does not delve into deeply though it does rely on some light info visualization) -- and just enabling new expositional forms (which would be more like Prezi - the zooming, rotating, text-focused PowerPoint alternative).

Although there is an argument that general tools are all you need to create animanifestos in the same way you don\'t need a specialized word processor to write a short story (leaving aside Scrivener etc. and screenwriting for the timebeing). In this line of thinking, there is a fairly finite set of functions - easy animation creation/control, integration/visualization of external data sources, image manipulation, basic video editing, for example, that like Snarkmarket\'s New Liberal Arts, constitute a New Office Suite.