Popular animation software List By Tej Kohli

When it comes to finding the right tools to create suitable Animations, there are multiple options open to you. Here are just a few of the best ones:

1) ProMotion A low cost, feature packed paint program that is especially designed to create frame based animations. It supports FLIC files, Animated GIF and a private animation file format. It offers full control over the palette.

2) Plastic Animation Paper A professional, easy-to-use cel drawing program (to create frame based animations).

3) Chromacolour International A good source for hardware and software for both traditional or computer-based animation.

3. Paint Shop Pro by JASC Software, Inc.

A program for drawing and image processing.

4. For frame based animation:

Video for Windows by Microsoft Corporation

Smacker by RAD Game Tools

5. For sprite animation:

DirectDraw by Microsoft Corporation (except that you have to write most of the sprite handling yourself)

FrastGraph by Ted Gruber Software

Media!Lab by MetaGraphics Software Corporation