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Quote 5L1V3R Replybullet 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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Quote greenraven Replybullet 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.
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Quote Blueberry_pie Replybullet 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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Quote Hapiel Replybullet 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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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 05 January 2008 at 7:17am
ImageReady, part of PhotoshopCS3
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Quote 5L1V3R Replybullet 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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Quote jalonso Replybullet 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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Quote Monkey 'o Doom Replybullet 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.

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Quote surt Replybullet 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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Quote volcom Replybullet 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.


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Quote Metaru Replybullet 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-)
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Quote Monkey 'o Doom Replybullet Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:46pm
Not to mention the fact that it fails at life.

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Quote Metaru Replybullet Posted: 05 January 2008 at 9:16pm
Game Maker? ?
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 06 January 2008 at 6:12am
Free Find http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html
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Quote klav Replybullet Posted: 06 January 2008 at 4:27pm
I pixel in both graphics gale and photoshopgraphics 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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Quote Metaru Replybullet 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.
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Quote 5L1V3R Replybullet 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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