What is the best Pixel animation tool?
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| Hi guys, What pixel animation tool do you recommend to develop pixel art and animated sprites for use in BlitzMax. I am aware of Pro Motion and Pro Pixel Animator. IPete2. |
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| This any use? http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/ |
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| -I like Animshop included with PSP. -for just animation,for hi res I mean, I just love the feel of maker of Opencanvas, but the animation tool is only in japanesse, I could handle well the demo, anyway, all uis look alike, even in weird characters,lol. -Adobe Photoshop does freaking well the trick with layers, once you get used.Or maybe I am just to PS fan. -That Gale thing is quite good, but i don't like the flashing it makes in the real time preview. -A good combo is Adobe PS, and load the psd with layers in Animshop...if u can, try it. Remember u can make a psd also With Gimp for Windows, and that there's a thing called Gimpshop, for which there's now a windows port, that makes all gimp windows be cfocused in one, and works.Yet though I don't like gimp for my wacom, they'r not good friends. -Ultimate Paint can do well, in some situation. -I haven't checked Snarty's tools, but may worth a look at blitzcoders . |
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| OMG! I forgot all about Gale - Thanks! I even have it installed somewhere on my overly bloated PC Hard drive, I'll go back and check it again now - Many thanks for reminding me of it. IPete2. |
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| You might be suprised, but flash is pretty good too as an animation tool. You can export to frames as well as avi's. Just a thought if you already have flash. |
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| One Eyed, Yeah Flash 8 Pro arrived on Thursday -hhhhmmmmmm lovely! :) I have used Flash for some stuff a while ago. It's good but having grown up with pixel tools I wanted to find a 'square by square' paint tool with animation, Graphics Gale is now doing the job quite nicely thanks. Btw check out what I did with Flash last night: www.smartscreenuk.com/ni IPete2. |
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| @IPete2: ... bet that wasn't done 'square by square' !!! |
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| cool :) |
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| IPete2: That just looks like a video. Are you telling me it's not? :O |
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| hah video well okay yes its just an swf file with an embedded video - no external files... it is also using the new flash 8 video codec and has Flash graphic items overlaid, live in the swf, which is the first time I've done that. Has a nice little shadow just to help it out a bit, and it didn't take as long as I thought it would to sort the whole thing out. Done in a Flash (almost!). IPete2. |
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| I think you guys should try this mobile APP, Pixel Animator(GIF Maker). It's awesome. Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minikara.director.android Apple store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixel-animator-gif-maker/id841345904?mt=8 |
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| I think they've probably figured it out by now... |
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| I guess you have to get the word out about your own apps somehow. ... ;-) |
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| Free, online & offline versions. http://www.piskelapp.com Dunno if it's the best, but it's damn good! |
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| Dunno if it's the best, but it's damn good! The original post asked the question 9 (!!!) years ago. |
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| for easy pixel art editor in Android, try INSTAPIX: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minikara.mydot.android |
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