Sijun Forums :: View topic - Want to play with animation. What software is there?

Capt. Fred · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:45 pm

Does anyone know of any cheap and cheerful animation software?

I just want something to take out the pain of saving hundreds of images in photoshop and opening them as an image sequence.

Some shareware or cheap thing that lets me flip between frames and ghost the preceding frames. I think, from early days using dabbler, it was called onion skinning. Maybe some simple object based stuff so you can create scrolling backgrounds or whatnot.

Anything out there?

Thanks :)

faB · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:14 pm

Ahhhh I miss the good ol' times of Deluxe Paint on the Amiga.

I know you can do it with Flash, with a tablet you can do varying lineweight, you can flip pages and have a sort of light table. There should be a tutorial for it, I dont remember much but it wasnt hard to setup. You have the advantage of easily displaying it onto the web.
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B0b · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:03 pm

he said cheap faB Wink

Capt. Fred · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:45 pm

yeah, and I never liked flash anyway.

Without any software, making an animation on a computer is not much easier than making one with pens and pencils.

watmough · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:05 pm

take a look at moho.

nafa · junior member Member # Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 47

Have you considered morphing programs. Not exactly automatic animation but they do fill in the blanks between two pictures. Many good but free ones available.

stacy · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:46 pm

There's Tapptoons linetester
http://www.tappsplace.freeserve.co.uk

Their 'Pro' version is $55

Or DigiCel Flip Book starting at $99
http://www.digicelinc.com

Or my favorite, ToonBoom Studio Express for $144
http://www.toonboom.com/buy/onlinestore/customer/home.php

Capt. Fred · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:38 am

Aahh, that was dumb.
I forgot to say: I'm using a Mac.

That Moho thing is available for mac. I'll have a play until runs out.
Don't laugh, but cheap for me means the sort of coinage I could hold in one hand :P

LAZU · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:45 am

you should check Aura or its new name Mirage by Newtek, its like Photoshop but animatable.

seth1 · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 534

You should give blender a try it's a free 3d program quick good really...

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"Blender is quickly being transformed from an impressive 3D creativity tool to a full-blown games and new media design application."

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Capt. Fred · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:05 am

I'm gonna play with mirage, looks good.

weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

blender is the best peice of free 3d software I have ever used. It has a steep learning curve (not as steep as it used to be though), but it's amazing for being free. I've been using almost since the beginning (4.5 years??). This is for 3d animation/modelling though, i'de look to flash for cheap 2d animation.