Combustion did not spawn from Autodesk Animator. C* was never a child of Autodesk from the start. Combustion originates from Discreet (Discreet Logic back than) when “Paint*” and “Effect*” where merged into one package. “Paint* and Effect*” again even where only bought by Discreet from some small company called Denim Software or similar.
I think that was the first step by Discreet into the realms of smaller/cheaper packages, compared to their Flame etc… high price range products…
Back in the day this was the only way to play an animation, since systems only had a few megs of ram at most.
That software was like 60% of my childhood 🙂
I never understood why Autodesk stopped developing it (perhaps Combustion spawned from it?) it was so easy to use and a lot of fun.
Pro-motion took up the approach really well, can thoroughly recommend it for pixel based animation
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@Chris:
Combustion did not spawn from Autodesk Animator. C* was never a child of Autodesk from the start. Combustion originates from Discreet (Discreet Logic back than) when “Paint*” and “Effect*” where merged into one package. “Paint* and Effect*” again even where only bought by Discreet from some small company called Denim Software or similar.
I think that was the first step by Discreet into the realms of smaller/cheaper packages, compared to their Flame etc… high price range products…
@Chris Ollis
Autodesk had Animator Studio.
@spacefrog That’s right, we have a copy of Denim Software’s ‘Illuminaire’ ‘paint’ & ‘composition’ sitting on the shelf at work 🙂