The 2D animation and pixel painting program created in 1989 by the Yost Group is available to the public. More on GitHub.
Autodesk Animator Pro available on GitHub
The 2D animation and pixel painting program created in 1989 by the Yost Group is available to the public. More on GitHub.
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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 🙂