Animation

Remember all those family pictures that have been just sitting there on your hard drive for years? You keep thinking that someday you need to do something about them. Well, here is your chance to show all your relatives what they used to look like!! ImageToAVI will quickly convert a list of image/picture files into an AVI video. That video can then be loaded into your favorite DVD authoring program and burned to disc. Just imagine, your entire family photo collection converted to everlasting 1´s and 0´s. With this neat little program you may choose to create video for DVD, SVCD and VCD (both NTSC and PAL supported). An audio file can be added for background music and your own background picture can be added as well. You may even customize the length of time to display each image. Want to create your own mini video clip instead of a slideshow? Not a problem. ImageToAvi is there to bring out the artist in you!

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, or bitmap/jpeg files.

Alias Studio™ Personal Learning Edition is a special version of Studio software that provides free access for non-commercial use. Learn or refine your skills in the design industry with leading sketching, modeling, rendering and animation tools. You'll discover why StudioTools™ is the industry standard for outstanding transportation and product design. The Studio Personal Learning Edition restricts users to non-commercial applications through the display of a watermark on images as well as through the use of a special non-commercial file format. Registration (Bronze Membership is free) is REQUIRED to access the download. NOT SUITABLE for inexperienced users, experience with other graphics programs recommended! Note: Some may not regard this as true freeware but *we* think it is a wonderful opportunity to get hands-on experience using top quality software.

With Autodesk MotionBuilder 7 Personal Learning Edition, industry professionals and those interested in character animation have an opportunity to explore all aspects of this award-winning technology while developing new skills. This special version of MotionBuilder® provides free access to the software for non-commercial use. Registration (Bronze Membership is free) is REQUIRED to access the download. NOT SUITABLE for inexperienced users, experience with other graphics programs recommended! Note: Some may not regard this as true freeware but *we* think it is a wonderful opportunity to get hands-on experience using top quality software.

This utility allows you to easily create animation from image files (GIFs and JPGs) on your local drive. The animation is achieved by creating a simple HTML page with JavaScript animation, and running it on your default browser. It requires a web browser with JavaScript support. (All Web browsers today support JavaScript, unless you explicitly disable it)

This program makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages. An example animation is included.

Tales Animator is the best software animator for kids and their parents. It allows you and your kids to develop high quality animations and save them in AVI and animated GIF formats. Your kids can animate their favorite fairy tales. You can animate your presentations. You do not need to be an artist or advanced user. Tales Animator takes a screenplay in very simple format and converts it into high quality cartoons with sound and titles. .

Zwei-Stein is a free multitrack video editing/compositing system for Windows, it features an extensive effect selection and a unique, flat interface. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames and you can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips. Input: *.avi, *.wav, *.mpg (no mp3), *.bmp, *.jpg. Output: *.avi, *.rm, *.wav, *.bmp.

CombiMovie is freeware which can combine two or more mpg/mpeg files into a single continuous mpg file. It works very fast, almost as fast as copying the file itself! Suitable for digital camera or internet movies.

MonkeyJam is a box full of digital monkeys that will let you get your drawings into the computer and then run around and stick them together so that you can see your animation come to life. In other words, it's an exposure sheet driven digital pencil test program and a stop motion movie maker. You can capture from DV, video and webcam or import individual images. MonkeyJam allows you to adjust the timing, composits multiple layers and exports as AVI. Perfect for any animation student or quick penciltest for professionals.