
Another program, more for video and animation, has probably inspired tvpaint. keying (blue screen/green screen) of poser walk sequences, etc.īut granted, it's not a replacement for After Effects -) at least not for a bunch of things.īack in the days of Amiga, D-paint (DeluxePaint) was a great little proggy, which inspired Dogwaffle. Many tutorials will show examples at - lots of postwork examples.

carry a image sequence or something coming from a video. The brush can itself be a animbrush, i.e. But you can also achive lots through the custom brush, including to keyframe a path and transform of a brush to be rendered across an animation. there's a bunch more, some more raster oriented, some more vector, like AnimeStudio, some are a mix of both.ĭogwaffle can do animations but you're right, not animated layers (and neither opaque layers).

If you need full layered animation that's beyond a simple animation program. (For the record, I do have Flash, but it's difficult to work with pixels in Flash, and I'd really prefer a simpler alternative.) I thought I'd ask if anyone has found a good example of this kind of program, or knows of any good places I could search for one.

I've experimented with many free programs - Cylekx seemed promising at first, but it turned out to be a lot more cumbersome than i had anticipated, and Dogwaffle looks good as well, even though it's surprisingly difficult to import and export the image formats I'm planning to use with it. I envision it as something like a merging of Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop. I'm planning on making sprites for a 2D game I'm working on, but I want to add various effects to them (shadows, glowing magic effects) that would be easiest to do with a program like this. For some time, I've been looking for an animation program that uses pixels as opposed to vectors (i.e., Flash) and also supports layers and alpha transparency.
