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kitsieandmeow
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Quote kitsieandmeow Replybullet Topic: What's everyone's favorite software for animating?
    Posted: 12 May 2016 at 5:48pm
I've been getting super frustrated with Photoshop for animating pixels. While I really liked using GraphicsGale, I'm on the fence about getting it. Currently, I use paint.net for everything. There's an animation plug in but I don't find it super ideal.

What's everyone around here like to use?

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Quote Palocles Replybullet Posted: 04 August 2016 at 12:54am
I found it really helpful using the spite functions in Game Maker Studio. You can select an image to make into an animated sprite and load it into the sprite image 'slot'. You can then change the speed on the fly and image order and orientation etc.

It doesn't make it into a gif but you can see if your animation is looking right. Also don't know if I'm explaining this very well.

Game Maker Studio is a free download. Unless you want to go commercial.
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Quote Spinachos Replybullet Posted: 06 November 2016 at 12:35am
Hey!

Maybe you should take a Look on "aseprite". You can animate different layers seperatly, it is clearly arranged and it has unionskinning Too.
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Quote Goomboo Replybullet Posted: 06 November 2016 at 2:08am
Definitely Aseprite for me :)
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Quote dragfly Replybullet Posted: 14 December 2016 at 2:24pm
I use Pro Motion, which provides many useful features for animation: light table, key frames, still image and animation layers, anim painting(the frame auto-advance while drawing) ...
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