Pixel Joint Forum: What animation software do you use?

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   I was just curious, since I have never successfully animated a sprite, what software(s) you all use.

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5L1V3R Seaman Joined: 29 December 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31	Topic: What animation software do you use? Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:44pm
	I was just curious, since I have never successfully animated a sprite, what software(s) you all use.

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greenraven Commander Joined: 08 September 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2598	Posted: 04 January 2008 at 8:49pm
	unFreeze. Make the individual frames with MSpaint, then simply drag them into unFreeze. Presto chango you've got yourself an animation.
	"pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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Blueberry_pie Rear Admiral Joined: 24 July 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2176	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:14am
	I use Animation Shop, but like greenraven, I only use it for importing the individual frames and turning them into a gif. The Software for pixel art thread lists a bunch of programs, some of which you can also use for animating. Might be helpful.
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Hapiel Rear Admiral Joined: 30 June 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3266	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:36am
	when I tried to do my first few animations, I taught the reason they sucked was that others used better programs. Now I learned, it really has nothing to do what program you use for pixel art animations, because you will draw everything frame by frame in every program.. maybe some are easyer to use for some people and other programs for others, but really, if your animations get crappy you cant fix that by getting another program. Thats just the same as with pixel art. Pixel art will be the same in every program. In other digital art, maybe you need an effect thats available in photoshop but not in gimp.. but in pixel art, you will always have the right tools.. just personal preference makes a difference between the programs then. So what I mean to say is that you can get another program, but your animations wont get much better because of it. They can only get better by lots of practice ;)
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:17am
	ImageReady, part of PhotoshopCS3
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5L1V3R Seaman Joined: 29 December 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 11:34am
	do all of these programs have looping? i tried using windows movie maker because it is already on my computer, but it doesn't have loop, so i dont have a use for it

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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 11:36am
	looping is in every animation program I believe. In case you need something temporarily. www.iaza.com will handle up to 15 frames, is online and free.
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Monkey 'o Doom Commander Joined: 24 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2994	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 1:52pm
	I'm pretty sure Windows Movie Maker is not an animation program. It's a video-editing program, and only exports video filetypes, which don't support looping no matter how you make them.
	RPG is numberwang.
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surt Commander Joined: 30 December 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 413	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:31pm
	If you want to practise animation Pencil is very nice. Not great for pixel work though.

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volcom Commander Joined: 17 August 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 272	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 2:37pm
	its not software but i think you can have 15 frames on http://www.iaza.com . I use that when i animate I have windows movie maker. Never use that unless your making a movie for youtube or to put on a DVD disk. Edited by volcom - 05 January 2008 at 2:40pm
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Metaru Commander Joined: 03 February 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3305	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:08pm
	Game Maker has an animation feature, but it lacks any kind of looping feature(yep, a GIF may not loop actually, and will only load once-or even, they can be set to a defined number of loops-)
	I ate leel's babies
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Monkey 'o Doom Commander Joined: 24 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2994	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:46pm
	Not to mention the fact that it fails at life.
	RPG is numberwang.
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Metaru Commander Joined: 03 February 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3305	Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:16pm
	Game Maker? ?
	I ate leel's babies
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 06 January 2008 at 6:12am
	Free Find http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html PC users report, pleeez
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klav Commander Joined: 01 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 128	Posted: 06 January 2008 at 4:27pm
	I pixel in both graphics gale and photoshop. graphics gale lets me animate (free version will allow you to save as .png -no .gif), but I import my frames into image ready for the final version.
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Metaru Commander Joined: 03 February 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3305	Posted: 07 January 2008 at 5:08am
	so, the final conclusion is: there is no golden program for pixel art/animating. just try some of the above mentioned, find the one/s that fit you, and use some tutorials to explore their maximun capabilities. I use a combination between animation shop 3, Paint Shop 7, Mt Paint and MS PAint, for example.
	I ate leel's babies
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5L1V3R Seaman Joined: 29 December 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 31	Posted: 08 January 2008 at 7:52pm
	thanks all, i will take all of your suggestions into consideration and expect an animated pixel from me soon

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