Animation
VirtualStage is a toolkit that enables the beginner or intermediate level filmmaker to create their own 3D animated movies, virtual dramas and stage plays. With VirtualStage, you are able to design and build virtual film sets, position cameras and configure the lighting. You then direct the virtual actors as they perform a scene. The actors’ actions and gestures are defined by you with an easy to use key frame animation tool. The actors’ speech is generated using speech synthesis or, if you prefer, you can use recordings of real voices. VirtualStage is easy to use and, yet, it gives you full control. The action is entirely determined by you. VirtualStage is an open ended toolkit that enables the movie maker or playwright to be creative. Version 4.0.4 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Screen Babe is professional Screenmate and Office’s Assistant like development tools. Whether you’re a novice multimedia designer or experienced programmer, you can now build powerful, customizable Screenmate application that integrate easily with the Web and other application.
Beneton Movie GIF is a complete GIF editing tool. Either beginners or advanced users will find an utility to this simple and effective program. BMG supports over 48 file formats, such as BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG. Use drag-and-drop to move frames quickly. Multiple frames selecting makes it easy to delete, copy, cut, paste, or move a part of your animation. Many different effects such as rotate, distortion and transition offer you many options to get the results you want in only a few clicks. Some rare but useful features are also included: you can save and load a batch of single-frame files (frame1.bmp, frame2.bmp). A built-in image editor offers an easy way to edit your frames with many tools (pencil, shapes, airbrush, alpha brush, fill, selection, text, onionskin, and others). Other features include individual frame properties, and the ability to export as AVI video. Version 1.1.1 adds Windows Vista compatibility.
TouchArt Sampler is a great way to learn the art and skills of performing live visuals and VJing. TouchPlayer and 21 interactive 2D and 3D animations (synths) are included in this sampler. Touch lets you manipulate visuals in real-time, giving you control of various parameters like lighting, color, textures, motion, video playback, and composing. Play some audio and you can sync visuals to the BPM. An upgrade to TouchMixer gives you the complete TouchArt CD with 60 more synths, 50 QuickTime loops and extended features. TouchMixer lets you control with MIDI, create your own presets, replace textures, record to QuickTime movies and use dual monitors. You can make your own synth playlists and sequence them in autopilot mode. Touch can be used for interactive art installations, VJ visuals, music visualization, architecture projections, stage lighting, live performance, engineering and research.
Fun Morph is a funny and easy-to-use photo morphing and warping software. Morph and warp face or image of friends, family, or celebrities. Turn them into a cat or a pig or any jokes. You can save movie in all popular formats, including AVI video, Web page, e-mail, greeting cards, animated GIF, and picture sequence.
BluffTitler DX9 is a realtime 3D video titler for Windows. BluffTitler uses Microsoft’s DirectX 9 technology to create broadcast quality, animated 3D titles in realtime - results are shown instantly, without rendering. Animations can be played in realtime by the BluffTitler player and screensaver or exported to video and picture formats for use in videos, computer presentations and Websites. Version 5.04 includes numerous enhancements over previous versions, including: Support for DirectX effect files: comes with an exciting variety of innovative vertex and pixel shader effects. Included effect files add many new creative effects to BluffTitler including normal-mapped textures (bump mapping), multiple texture effects, improved reflection mapping, hand drawn effects, and morphing text. Realtime pixel shader effects can even be applied to live video (from BluffTitler’s video capture layer).
EximiousSoft GIF Creator is an easy and powerful tool for creating high quality and impact GIF animations. Which provides more than 40 effects to build cool animations or impressive banners within short times. By adding shadows or outlines, you can make more effective animations. Whats more automatic optimization delivers the smallest size GIF files but keeps all original images quality. Selection tools such as rectangle, ellipse, lasso, and magic wand are provided to cut, copy, move, or delete proportion of an animation. Erasing tool is used to remove unwanted areas easily, and other vector painted tools can draw the smoothest texts, symbols, and geometric shapes. It supports GIF, AVI, BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PSD, ICO, CUR, ANI, and SWF file formats. Version 3.7 previews GIF animations in Web browser directly
People Putty allows the user to put their own face onto a character using simple 2D photographs and sculpt a character (as if it were putty) into realistic human, animal, or other fantastic forms. You can tune a characters Automated Personality into a wide range of ‘personality types’. In People Putty, you can add flowing hair, hats, beards, glasses, and other accessories to the virtual character. You can record your voice into an Automated Personality, with highly accurate lip-syncing. With People Putty you can build your own 3D, interactive character Web site, or create characters for integration into existing applications.
Web Animation Studio creates GIF Animations. File types: GIF, BMP, JPG, JPEG, AVI, MOV, PIC, PCX, TRGA, RGB, CEL, TIF, TIFF, PCD, PSD, PDD, WAV, MID Info: New generation of GIF animation. The best optimization. Optimization of graphic pallets to reduce file sizes. Interfaces with scanners. Online help. You may easy create professional GIF files.
Use MorphBuster and amaze your friends and family with unbelievable transformations. Morphing is an animation technique in which one image is gradually turned into another. MorphBuster lets you make incredible morphs in minutes. You’ve seen them in the movies and on TV, and now you can create them yourself. Turn a friend into a tiger. Watch your child grow into an adult. Unleash your imagination with the power of MorphBuster. The rendering engine takes advantage of hardware acceleration, and the rendering speed easily goes up to several hundred FPS (Frames Per Second) Using MorphBuster, you can do everything a professional animator does to create amazing morph animations. Flash, Animated GIF, AVI, JPEG, and other formats are supported. MorphBuster comes with all the tools you need toresize, crop, rotate, flip, adjust, edit and prepare source images for morphing.
StillMotion Creator provides pan and zoom animations (and more) from digital still images. The software mimics the full functionality of a professional animation camera stand, where you can apply pan, zoom, and rotate to images. The completed animation can then be output in multimedia formats including: SWF (Flash) as optional Internet ready AVI and Quick Time as high-resolution media files for professional video and direct support for HDTV formats. Unlike Flash, and other animation programs The StillMotion Creator lets you animate from the camera (viewers) point of view rather than programs which use the paradigm of ‘managing actors on a stage’. The creation of virtual tours for the Web is a major application. The product is a tool for digital photographers, Web and Flash developers and videographers.
AMC GIF Construction Set Pro is the world’s most widely-used GIF animator to assemble, edit, and optimize animations and create transparent GIF files. Features: Animation Wizard, Supercompressor, Banner generator and Transitions for sophisticated animated effects. You can rotate, crop, colour-adjust and resize all or part of an animation sequence. Extensive documentation and tutorials so you can get right down to things that flash and move. Version 3.0a.17 is Vista compatible.
With Image Tools Group Active GIF Creator you can create fabulous animated GIF images (banners, buttons, and other graphics) for the Web. You can even make movies with pictures created by internal image editor or any image-editing program (Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of others). Active GIF Creator can optimize GIF to make it smaller. Import/export to other graphical formats, batch mode and other tools will make you work easier. Version 3 adds new file format AGIF to store animation projects of the program, new page Script - tools for creation of animation scripts, and adds online updating of language files with screen texts, helps.
2D & 3D Animator produces high-quality images, titles, banner ads, and buttons for your Web page. It comes with an object-oriented design interface that enables you to edit graphics, manipulate text and layers (graphic animations), apply special effects, and then compiles the animated graphic all from within the same program. You can add shadow or glow, draw with opacity, and add deformation, transition, and color adjustment effects. You can create animations from your own pictures and from 3D texts and shapes, or from ready-made templates with a big number of banners, buttons, and logos. To cut loading time for your visitors, have the program optimize your graphic by removing extraneous material. Once finished, output may be exported as GIF or AVI clips as well as JPEG, ICO, PNG, or bitmap images. Changes in the new version include new commands to paste images as new documents and some minor bug fixes.
With Sqirlz Morph you can morph two, three or more images together, or warp images individually. Images A, B, C, D etc can be morphed together in several different ways - in the simple sequence A to B to C to D etc, or by blending all images simultaneously, or with "wild" (random) mixing. Try multi-morphing all the family’s faces into one unique (or gruesome) movie! Save your animation as a Flash movie, AVI video clip, animated GIF file, or bitmap/jpeg files.
Flex GIF Animator allows to create GIF, Flash, Quicktime movie and self-play congratulation animations with Real-time 3D effects and synchronization audio. Optimize for target file size or compression ratio with before-and-after animated previews. Supports create between objects animation. Add 60 stunning effects include particle system in real-time. It has a built-in Windows trick banner maker, screen capturer, morpher, nature image matting tool, and audio recorder.
Animated GIF Banner Maker is software designed for making animated GIF Banner file from more than 30 graphic files including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, WMF, EMF, TGA, DIB, SGI, PCX, and so on. It also supports converting GIF to AVI, converting AVI to GIF, extracting animated GIF to BMP,JPG, or BMP pictures.
With Artful GIF Animator, you can create from scratch, import from AVI, edit and optimize your animated GIF images to develop state-of-the-art animations for web sites. Artful GIF Animator lets you import and export multiple graphic formats. With its easy-to-use interface, you can drag and drop JPEG, BMP, GIF, ICO, and even AVI files into the program and then edit and preview frames on the fly–while you are editing a frame, it animates the resulting picture. It offers many important add-on capabilities, such as tuning up the individual position and editing the color palette for each frame, optimizing animated GIF images using five different color reduction methods, and others. All these makes Artful GIF Animator an excellent add-on tool for Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. It is recommended for experienced web designers as well as for those who are taking their first steps in graphic design. Excellent documentation is included.
Animoids 3D Movie Maker allows to build and animate 3D models, teach them behaviors then form 3D movie scenes that can be saved in QuickTime, AVI, or Animated GIF format. Animoids is integrated with an online database of 3D art with hundreds of free downloadable artworks: including sounds, textures, models, behaviors, movie sets and movie scenes. It’s easy to cut and paste between models, use easy tools for stretching, shaping, coloring or texturing your model, or work at the most detailed level by editing individual node points. Building a 3D movie is hard work–see if you’ve got what it takes. Features: more undo/redo control; improved transform options; improved reliability with Windows Me. Version 2.2.10 DL is a minor upgrade that fixes a potential bug related to software expiration.
GIF Studio Pro is a specialized graphics application well-suited for Web production. It is designed for creating animated GIFs, 3D text, and optimized images. GIF Studio Pro supports many file formats, including GIF, BMP, JPEG, AVI, MOV, PIC, TRGA, TIFF, PCD, and even PSD (Photoshop) files. It also provides integrated functionality with most major scanners. Online help and built-in tool tips are provided for easily accessible assistance. GIF Studio Pro lets you edit individual properties of each project through the Options palette, or set global palettes for optimization and other oft-repeated processes. You can add, adjust, import, and export animation frames with ease, and apply a variety of transition effects. Take total control over your project, or create practical graphics in mere minutes with step-by-step wizards. This download includes CyD GIF Studio and CyD Image Viewer.
