Knowledge: animation
See Also:
- business → arts and entertainment → media production → animation → computer → portfolios
- business → business services → audiovisual → production → presentations
- computers → graphics → animation
- computers → graphics → web → free → animated gifs
Links
- Digital Juice
http://www.digitaljuice.com/ - Motion backgrounds for non-linear editors and many static backgrounds.
- Animation Stand
http://www.animationstand.com/ - Computer assisted animation and special effects system. Scanning, ink and paint, 3d shading, auto painting, animation direction with exposure sheet control, special and optical effects, lay out to tape, disk, or film, and management reporting.
- CreaToon
http://www.creatoon.com/ - Create 2D animation with a cutout look at a fraction of the traditional production time. A free demo version can be downloaded.
- DigiCel FlipBook
http://www.digicelinc.com/ - Easy to use animation software to scan, shoot, draw or trace animation directly into the computer for painting, playing, and publishing animated movies on film, television and the internet.
- Pandromeda, Inc.
http://www.pandromeda.com/ - MojoWorld makes it incredibly easy to create realistic animations of 3D landscapes and entire planets.
- The Complete Animator
http://www.iota.co.uk/tca/home/home.html - Easy to use web animation software package for Win 95 and above. Create fun cartoons or animated GIFs for a Web site.
- Digital Video
http://www.toonz.com/ - Designed to simplify and speed up the animation production. Includes tools for: importing original pencil drawings and adding adjustments when required; inking and painting; building color models; creating exposure sheets; composting; creating special effects and recording the final images to video or film. Support for the Macromedia Flash formats as output.
- CelAction
http://www.celaction.com/ - A technology services company specializing in customized hardware and software solutions for animation production companies.
- Firka
http://www.firkafilm.com/ - A pencil tester for cartoon animators. Camera movements, dialog framing, visual effects. Downloadable free version.
- Imaja Bliss Paint
http://www.imaja.com/blisspaint/index.html - A real time animation tool for Mac OS. The interactive live performance, including MIDI, sound, PICT file and live video input, and live video and QuickTime output, and color synthesis are key features.
- Facial Animation
http://www.3d-character-performance-facial-animation.com/ - 3d facial animation for performance, character and facial animation. Powerful software for performance animation and facial animation.
- WinImages
http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/ - Special effects animation tool. Morphing, warping, fire, lightning, plasma, ray tracing, heightfield rendering, particle systems, photometric adjustments, extensive image editing with 70+ layer modes, geometric warping layer objects, color separation, comprehensive image manager, more. (Windows 95 through XP)
- Anim8or
http://www.anim8or.com/ - Freeware character animation and 3D modeling software. Runs on Windows NT, 9x and 2000 platforms.
- 2d3
http://www.2d3.com/ - Developers of boujou, an automated camera tracker and match mover software.
- Joe Alter
http://www.joealter.com/ - Developer of LipService, a facial animation and sculpting tool, and Shave And A Haircut, a hair modeling and animation software. Site offers product information, downloads and support.
- NACDraw
http://www.nacgeo.com/nacdraw.asp - Creates accurate graphics, presentations, games and vector animation with controls, hyperlinks, sounds, music and speech recognition commands.
- Anthropics Technology Limited
http://www.anthropics.com/ - Synthactor enables the delivery of near-broadcast quality human-image video at data rates as low as 300 bytes per second. Provides identity enhancement and changing capabilities, as well as offering cost savings.
- Third Wish
http://www.thirdwishsoftware.com/ - Makers of the software Magpie, a tool that helps in the analysis of a recorded voice for lip sync animation.
- The Labs: GIFMerge for UNIX
http://the-labs.com/GIFMerge/ - A tool for building animated gifs, merge GIFs to a GIF animation.
- 2D & 3D Animator
http://www.pysoft.com/GIF_Designer_fr.html - Program produces images, titles, banner ads and buttons for web pages or for presentations. It comes with an object-oriented design interface to edit graphics, manipulate text and layers (graphic animations), apply special effects, and then compile the animated graphic all from within the same program.
- ShowstoppersFX
http://www.showstoppersfx.com/ - Offer looping backgrounds, overlays and title animations for video editing. Overlay shapes and masks including versions with innovative particle effects. Animations supplied in QuickTime video format.
- Imedia Builders
http://www.flareworks.com/ - Development of FlareProducts, a family of products designed to make the creation of simple or comprehensive web-based animation and interactivity easy.
- Splash Particle System
http://freespace.virgin.net/cole.family/ - 4D particle effects stand-alone software for 3D animations, by Ant Software.
- Animats
http://www.animats.com/ - Makers of Falling Bodies, a Softimage 3D dynamics plugin to animate fall stunts.
- Ascension Technology Corporation
http://www.ascension-tech.com/ - Makers of motion tracking gear used in character animation real-time simulation, virtual reality, medicine, and biomechanics.
- Vicon Motion Systems
http://www.vicon.com/ - Software and systems for motion capture in the animation market, biomechanics and ergonomics.
- Polhemus
http://www.polhemus.com/ - Provider of 3D position and orientation tracking, motion capture, and digitizing solutions.
- Dosch Design
http://www.doschdesign.com/ - Developer of add-ons for 3D graphics and animation applications.
- Lost Marble
http://www.lostmarble.com/ - A 2D-vector-based cartoon-animation application designed to provide a complete set of tools to create animations. Provides a feature called Switch Layers that assists in creating lip-sync animation. [Windows and MacOS]
- Toonboom
http://www.toonboom.com/ - Developers of USAnimation, a comprehensive vector-based 2D animation system.
- Spin Productions
http://www.spinpro.com/ - Offers animation, design and effects services, specializing in film titles and longform productions.
- Sprite Artist
http://www.kis.ru/~oa/ - Utility to edit and animate games graphics.
- Sphere
http://www.sphere.me.uk - Windows graphics program to relax the user with animated colorful patterns.
- Media Semantics
http://www.mediasemantics.com/ - Tools for building rich interactive media content hosted by believable cartoon and 3D characters.
- AVI Constructor Pack Software
http://www.aviconstructor.com/ - A serious multimedia tool to quickly create AVI files from image BMP, JPEG, or TGA and sound files AVI or WAV files.
- PNG/MNG Construction Set - Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/pngpro.html - Create MNG animations using PNG images. The program features an animation wizard, to rotate, crop, color-adjust, and resize all or part of an animation sequence. Convert animated MNG files to AVI format, create 2D, rotating animated graphics, and protect the graphics using a protection matrix.
- StoryBoard Artist
http://www.storyboardartist.com/ - Great for print as well as presentation-style storyboards: creates a timeline, and animates, with sound and transitions, exports to HTML and creates links for non-linear stories. [Windows/Macintosh]
- Animated ArtCard Creations
http://www.blaiz.net/aac.html - Create professionally, framed, 24bit color, animated musical ArtCards. Collage favorite multimedia. Produce and print advertising fliers with flare, with WYSIWYG click/drag animations in real-time.
- Wehner`s Animate DOS Command
http://www.wehner.org/tools/animate/ - The simplest way to animate GIF. A tiny MSDOS program that does everything that GIF can do.
- Toon Boom Technologies Inc.
http://www.toonboomstudio.com/ - 2D animation software for businesses and individuals. Offers vector-based, resolution independent and multi-layer software systems with multi-format output to HDTV, Film, DVD, Imax and Macromedia FlashTM.
- CoffeeCup GIF Animator
http://www.coffeecup.com/gif-animator/ - Convert GIF, JPEG, and BMP graphics to animated GIFs automatically. Import and export AVI files, or save animations as Flash (.swf). HTML source is generated for easy insertion into Web pages.
- Deformer
http://www.stoik.com/deformer/ - Image transformation and animation tool. All deformations and animation playbacks run in real-time regardless of the size of original image.
- INUS Technology
http://www.rapidform.com/ - Data processing software for reconstruction of a real object.
- Ladybug2000 from Neatware
http://www.neatware.com/ladybug2000/ - Programmable video player on Windows that can play a variety of formats.
- FluxTime
http://www.fluxtime.com/ - Vector graphics and animation software tailored around the creative process. It produces images and animations that can be shown locally, on the Internet, or installed as screensavers.
- GIF Construction Set Professional
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html - Features Animation Wizard to create sophisticated animations.
- famous3D
http://www.famous3d.com/ - Software solutions to capture facial expressions and lip-sync, and therefore bring life to animated 3D characters.
- Crater Software
http://www.cratersoftware.com/ - Developers of CTP, a 2D software designed to output broadcast quality animated series.
- AVD Graphic Studio
http://www.avlandesign.com/graphstudio.htm - Editor for graphics, animation and video, edit, view and print images, using painting tools, drawing tools and various effects. Import multi frame files (AVI and animated GIF) for editing, easily receive separate frames and create animated GIF and AVI.
- CoffeeCup Firestarter
http://www.coffeecup.com/firestarter/ - The fastest and easiest way to make flash effects for a website. Firestarter has over 50 built in ready to use effects like Assemble, Explode, Fade, and others, a collection of cool MP3 sounds, plus it's all in an easy to use interface.
- KoolMoves
http://www.koolmoves.com/ - Flash animation software for creation of text effects, personalized banners, animated clipart, games, slide show presentations, and entire websites.
- Reallusion 3d Graphic Animation Software
http://www.reallusion.com/ - Effect3d is 3D animation and image editor software that creates 3D objects and animates them with motion and special effects. Export as animated GIF, BMP or JPG. Free trial download. CrazyTalk is facial animation software to synchronized voice and facial expressions to any photo or image.
- iMEDIA Builders
http://www.imediabuilders.com/ - iMB FlareWorks is a low cost, easy to use application for creating interactive buttons, menus, banners, slideshows, presentations, animations or websites in Macromedia Flash (SWF) or iMB Flare (FLR) formats.
- CrazyTalk Expression Editor
http://crazytalk.reallusion.com/ - Quickly turn any image into a talking and animated "CrazyFace", by transforming text into personalized voice messages with synchronized lip movement, and facial expressions.
- Parasys Co. LTD.
http://www.parasys.net/ - Flying PopCorn is an animation and multimedia-authoring tool. Easy-to-learn graphical work environment, intuitive WYSIWYG editing, support for most images and video format.
- Boston Dynamics
http://www.bdi.com/ - Provides software and services for animation of lifelike humans in real-time simulation environments.
- Liatro Babarosa Gif Animator
http://www.liatro.com/ - Create compact GIF animations for the web. Build in image editor, support for 13 image formats also design animation directly in the program using vector graphics. [Win 95/98/NT/2000]
- Morpheus Software, LLC.
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/ - Morpheus is a graphics program that will morph/warp two images or movies in Flash, Animated GIF, and AVI. Tutorials, FAQs, help files, downloads, and information on ordering.
- WinMorph
http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/ - Free high performance warping and morphing software.
- Boris FX
http://borisfx.com/ - Developer of plug-in technology delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for post production, multi-media and web markets.
- Morphink Corporation
http://www.morphink.com/ - MorphInk 2.0 is a free style animation tool based on automatic morphing. Use for fun, for decorating Web sites, for presentations, or to create animated greetings and email them to friends. [Win 95/98/NT/2000]
- Plastic Animation Paper
http://plasticanimationpaper.dk/ - Very fast and effective 2D animation software for the professional cartoon animator. Paperless system.
- Digital Anarchy
http://www.digitalanarchy.com/ - Makers of animation tools and special effects software for After Effects, Flash, and Discreet Flame/Inferno.
- Northern Lights Productions
http://www.northernlights3d.com/ - Purveyors and developers of various 3D-effect software and hand crafted plugins for Electric Image Universe Animator.
- Active GIF Creator
http://www.wsoft-lab.com/products/agif/ - Create animated GIF images for the Web. Even create movies using pictures or graphics created or edited in any image-editing program, including Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of others.
- ThreeDimSim
http://www.havingasoftware.nl/ - A 3D mechanics simulation and rendering application. 3D scene is defined by script using simple shapes and imported meshes from 3ds, dxf and stl files. Scenes can be exported as a video clip (avi file) as well.
- ImageMatics
http://www.imagematics.com/ - StillMotrion Creator is an easy to use interactive software product for creation very low bandwidth flash animations from still images. An animation movie creation and editing software for Web site developers using real images.
- Aesop v.1.5 GIF maker
http://www.yukudr.com/bannercreator/ - A tool to create animated advertising banners, buttons, and other graphics for a Website.
- TVPaint Developpement
http://www.tvpaint.com/ - Makers of computer assisted animation, compositing and special effects software for digital artists, cartoon animators and TV stations. Products include Aura Video Paint, Aura VT, Aura DV and Aura Claymation.
- Abrosoft FantaMorph
http://fantamorph.com/ - Skinable software designed to create image morphing and warping movie, play final effects in real time without exporting to a file. Product description, tutorials, how-to articles, free skins, screenshots, FAQs, and downloads.
- VolMorph v2.4
http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~gmt11/software/volmorph/volmorph.html - Free 3D-volume morphing software with documentation that is intended for research or personal use only. Program will generate and visualize morphing sequences from one polygonal mesh to another. [SGI Irix 6.2, 6.3/Linux/Win 95/98/NT]
- The TAB
http://www.the-tab.com/ - Animation software based on a new technology that includes an intuitive vector handling technique that uses dynamic control points and an adaptive fill system. From the developers of Toonz. Available both for Windows and Macintosh
- Animo
http://www.animo.com/ - Complex 2D animation software package, includes a linetester, dialogue synchronising system and 3d software integration (Maya, 3D Studio) (Windows / MacOS X)
- Project Dogwaffle - paint and animation software
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle - Onion skin animation (lighttable) and keyframes for dozens of filters and effects, use doggybag #2 to import your AVI files and paint over it
- AniMate for DPS Reality
http://www1.leitch.com/custserv/webdl.nsf/FD/AniMate_for_dpsReality25b24.exe?OpenDocument - Software package for stop-frame animators working with the dpsPerception and dpsReality disk-recorder. (Windows 2000/XP)
- AVD Video Processor
http://www.avlandesign.com/vp.htm - Capture separate frames from a video file. Control frame range, size, color and other parameters. Creating animated GIFs from your AVIs. Control GIF frames parameters. Creating animated GIFs and AVIs from your image sequence.
- Sothink SWF Quicker
http://www.sothink.com/swfquicker/index.htm - A professional Flash movie maker and also a powerful tool to edit SWF file just the same as you have FLA file.
- TriLab Productions makers of Digital Hotcakes
http://www.animationsforvideo.com - Digital Hotcakes - royalty free animated video backgrounds in several different categories (wedding, nature, abstract...)
- Easy Morph
http://www.blackbeltsystems.com/bx_wi_mee.html - Easy to use, wizard driven morphing and warping tool with a deformation engine. Reads and writes many types of image files, creates animation sequences of any length, works on images of any resolution, and outputs any resolution desired.
- FantaMorph
http://fantamorph.say-it-now.com - Animation software to morph images (Windows)
- 3D Choreographer
http://www.3dchor.com/3d/products_3d.html - Animation program, designed for non-artists, for PowerPoint presentations, CD-ROM applications, corporate training, educational software, or on the Internet.
- GL Studio
http://www.simulation.com/products/glstudio/glstudio.html - Create interactive real time animated 3D graphics, instrumentation and innovative user interfaces for training, simulation, and virtual prototyping.
- Alpha Plugins
http://www.adobefx.com - Provides high-end filter plug-ins for graphical and video editors such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere.
- BTV
http://www.bensoftware.com/ - Macintosh video application with frame capture features for stop motion, clay, and drawn animation. Includes version overviews, downloads and support.
- AnimatorDV
http://animatordv.com/ - PC based software for creating stop-motion animation or used as a previsualization tool in film production. Includes features, screenshots, movie samples, support and a demo version available for download.
- Easy GIF Animator
http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/ - Utility that helps to create and edit animated GIF images. Set a variety of options to customize GIF animation. [Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP]
- Advanced GIF Animator
http://www.gif-animator.com/ - Tool for creating animated GIF images, banners, buttons, and even movies. Built-in image editor, palette optimization, image size reduction, and multi-language support.
- AniTMT
http://www.anitmt.de/ - Free flexible program that creates photorealistic animations calculated by the raytracer PovRAY. The calculation may be distributed across any TCP/IP network.
- Babarosa
http://www.liatro.com/product/babarosa.php - Provides a fast and easy way to create compact GIF animations for the web, animations can be quickly assembled from imported images. Also design animation directly in the program using vector graphics, image, and text edit tools. Win 95/98/NT
- Artful GIF Animator
http://www.abacre.com/gifanimator/ - Create impressive and compact animated GIFs for banners, ads and web buttons on the fly.
- MainActor for Windows
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/consumer-products-4/mainactor-v5-15/information-16.html - A tool for creating animation files. Loads, edit, play, create and save animations and pictures of any size. It supports most of the commonly used animation and picture formats. (Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000)
- MatchWare Multimedia Software
http://www.matchware.com/ - Latest software for web design, screen captures, GIF animation and voice email. Product specifications for Mediator6, ScreenCorder, Visual GIF Animator and VoiceMail including demonstrations, online tutorials and ordering.
- WebPainter
http://www.totallyhip.com/webpainter.html - Includes all the tools needed to create professional Web animation and graphics. Unique cel animation interface to create small-sized, high-quality GIF animations, QuickTime movies, and JPEG and GIF files with the fewest possible steps.
- Kashmir 3D
http://www.kashmir3d.com/ - Generate photo-realistic images and movies of landscapes using Digital Elevation Model files from the United States Geological Survey and the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. [Win 95/98/NT]
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