Best animation program?

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    I need an animation program to make animated banners.
    Any reccomendations?
     
    Hubris, Oct 8, 2007 IP
  2. eruct

    eruct Well-Known Member

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    Most people use Flash when making some type of animation for the web.
    If your animation is going to be rather basic, you could always just make an animated gif.
     
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  3. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    Photoshop and the old ImageReady are both good for animated gifs.
     
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    Nora Well-Known Member

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    Microsoft Gif Animator
    Its extremely basic but it animates.. :D
     
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    nickharper Active Member

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    As said you can use Flash!

    I personally use Photoshop though because it is a lot simpler for the simple flashing animating banners I like to use :)
     
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  6. WM7

    WM7 Peon

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    #6
    I personally feel flash is the best one.
     
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  7. dan208

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    A good free alternative to flash is pencil 2d. I'd give you a link but I have got a high enough ranking to do that yet. Look for it on google.
     
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  8. ZoharBlur

    ZoharBlur Banned

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    #8
    I use image ready, it's easy to use and communicates great with photoshop.
     
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    kharen Banned

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    why don't you try a SWISH animator software... easy to manipulate than a flash...
     
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    I agree with kharen, Swishmax is much easier to manipulate. But a combination of flash and swishmax would be great
     
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    Digital_Designer Banned

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    You can use ImageReady . It's easy and good .
     
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    Hubris Peon

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    I didn't know you could use adobe to animate? :eek:
     
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    ZoharBlur Banned

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    Well, if you want to animate 3d models dont use image ready, if you want to animate banners for example swishing in and out, image ready is right for you, it's not very advanced.
     
    ZoharBlur, Oct 9, 2007 IP
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    worldman Notable Member

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    For web Flash
    For video: Alias Maya (very expensive)
    For games (3ds Max)
     
    worldman, Oct 9, 2007 IP