Contents • • • • • • • • Functionality [ ] Animator gave the ability to do frame-by-frame animation (creating each frame as an individual picture, much like traditional ). Animator Studio also had features (transforming one shape into another by letting the computer draw each in-between shape onto a separate frame). Animator and Animator Pro supported animation file formats, while Animator Studio also supported the format. Animator was particular strong in based editing, effects (like ) and animations a favoured technology in the time of. Unlike other DOS software from that time, Animator was not restricted by the limitation as it utilized a. Animator's combination of twenty tools multiplied by twenty inks, 3D 'optics,' unparalleled palette handling, custom fonts and many other useful features (such as its own internal POCO), put it many years ahead of better known animation tools of the time.

Development history [ ] Animator originates back to its author's earlier program Cyber Paint for the. Evolved in 1989 his software into Animator for 's 'Yost Group' for with.

Animator was then licensed to, who published the software as Autodesk Animator. Releases [ ] Animator was debuted at 1989, featuring a VGA of pixels with. In July 1991, the successor Animator Pro was released, with the significant improvement of allowing almost any resolution and. The software was sold for approx. $800, significantly more expensive than the previous version, addressing the professional audience.

Paper Airplane Factory V1 5 10. The 1995 released Animator Studio was a complete re-write for, but was not anymore developed by the Yost Group. Abandonment and legacy [ ] Eventually and it by Autodesk. Filed on December 18, 1989, the for 'Autodesk Animator' expired on July 21, 1997. Allowed later to run Animator Pro on current hardware, despite missing official support. As Jim Kent kept to the 300,000 lines base of Animator Pro, he allowed to make it available to public under the in 2009. The original 256 color Animator version for DOS is also provided as download. After some initial to modern platforms was started on.

Autodesk Animator, also known as Ani Pro, PJ Paint, PJ. The original 256 color Animator version for DOS is also provided as Freeware download. Animator Studio 1.1 1.1. Animator Studio 1.1 for Win 3.1/95. Windows version of a very popular animation software Animator Pro. Requirements: Pentium III or later or compatible 64 MB RAM 300 MB free disk space 1024 x 768 VGA with true color Mouse, trackball, or compatible pointing device.

As of April 2014 most of the source code was ported to code and was used as target back-end framework. Reception [ ] Animator was considered to be groundbreaking in the field of when it was initially released, and was very popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In the debut year 1989 Animator won 's 6th Annual Technical Excellence Award for Graphics. Also used the software for intros and other animated sequences in their games, for instance (1991, ) and (1993, ). Animator Studio attempted to do more than previous versions of the program, yet it had limited success.

It also lost the ergonomic fluidity that the DOS versions had. Animator Pro, though, was by far the most useful, and was exceptionally fast compared with today's animation programs.

The program worked so well and had enough of an impact, that it convinced that could create a character in his next film,; Autodesk did advertisement with this. There were also books written about Animator for instance 'Inside Autodesk Animator: The Complete Guide to Animation on a PC' by in 1990. See also [ ] • Animator's file format • • References [ ]. Retrieved on 2013-04-22. • on randelshofer.ch • ^ by Dr. Mussy 'October – November, marks an interesting anniversary for animation: 21 years ago, animation became available for the PC platform.'

(November 8, 2010) • 'At the 1989 SIGGRAPH in Boston, Autodesk unveiled a new PC based animation package called Autodesk Animator.' By Wayne Carlson on • •.. Retrieved 2017-02-17. 'Word Mark AUTODESK ANIMATOR [. Dell Datasafe Local Backup Serial Keygen Crack on this page. ] Serial Number 74011626, Filing Date December 18, 1989 [.] Live/Dead Indicator DEAD, Cancellation Date July 21, 1997' • by ZenPsycho on vogons.org (2006-11-23) • on github 'All source code (unless otherwise marked, or if better information becomes available) is ©1989-1994 Jim Kent and is available here under the BSD license' • Breton Slivka (2009-05-08)..

He kept his rights to the source code, and now, he is granting me access to the source code, to make it available to you all! Well not so fast. He also asked me to get in touch with Gary Yost to ensure that he didn't object. [.] But I managed, and I got his support too! So now that all the relevant parties are up to speed with my idea let's go • on • on • on github.com • by wangds on github.com/AnimatorPro (23 April 2014) • 'Robert Bennett, Lewis Gartenberg, David Kalish, Jim Kent, Jack Powell, Gary Yost' on pcmag.com (1989) • on (May 26, 1992) • Inside Autodesk Animator: The Complete Guide to Animation on a PC.

New Riders Publishing. External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to. • on • Freeware download via •.

Autodesk Animator was an oldskool 2d animation and painting program for MS-DOS, originally made in 1989. It was considered to be a groundbreaking application at the time, and it introduced me to the world of pixelart. I've spent countless hours in Animator back when I was a kid, and I'm sure that at least some of the PixelJoint community is familiar with it. As it turns out, Jim Kent, one of the programmers who'd made this brilliant gem of a program, kept the copyright to the Animator source code, and has (more or less) recently given the permission to another coder, Breton Slivka, to make Animator available as opensource. There are even plans to port it and make it cross-platform! It currently requires DOS to run, and I'm pleased to say that it runs flawlessly in DOSBox. For more info and downloads, visit.