Animation Programs...
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 12:14am
Topic: Animation Programs...
Posted By: Darren329
Subject: Animation Programs...
Date Posted: 19 December 2009 at 2:21pm
What are the best programs for creating small animations? 
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Replies:
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 19 December 2009 at 2:28pm
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If very simple (up to 15 frames) you can use iaza.com's animation utility. Draw frames on whatever program you now have. Save as gif. then use iaza to compile. ------------- |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 19 December 2009 at 5:02pm
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MSpaint + Giffy + unFreeze = Cheap bastard's tools of the trade.
-------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Darren329
Date Posted: 20 December 2009 at 3:13am
| So i could just draw the frames, save them on paint as a .GIF, then unfreeze them , and it'll be an animation ? |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 20 December 2009 at 4:25am
| Never save as .GIF in paint. A whole bunch of random dither appears and the palette's stuck forever. The aforementioned iaza can convert to GIF for you, and it actually can do 30 frames (Plus transparency) |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 20 December 2009 at 7:19am
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Converting them to GIFs is what Giffy is for. MSpaint to draw the individual frames. Giffy to convert frames to GIFs and set transparency. unFreeze to animate all frames. There's a bit of needless work here, but if you're a poor hobo like me and have no money it's pretty much the only way to go. (For free.) XD ------------- "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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Posted By: Skinetic
Date Posted: 20 December 2009 at 9:37am
| TileStudio, but it saves the animation as a strip. |
Posted By: Ryath
Date Posted: 20 December 2009 at 9:50am
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I figure I might as well put in my input here. I use GIMP for almost all my spriting, and it does everything I need.
You can set up all your frames with transparency, save as a GIF, and animate it all in the same program. It seems a lot faster than me to than some of the above ways. Of course, it's only really easy if GIMP is your primary spriting tool. P.S. GIMP is free. |