I wanted to try my hand at doing some animation. Does anyone know of any programs that I might be able to download??? I was told that 3D Character Animation Studio was a good one, but it's costs.

I've used Jasc Animation Shop before, it's pretty slick. But it costs money too, although I think there's a 30-day trial for it.

oh the 30day trial might work. Do you have a link for it? How much does the regular version cost?

http://www.jasc.com/products/animationshop/

It's $39 (or free with Paint Shop Pro, which itself costs a lot more than $39 heh).

and you say it's pretty easy to use? I am actually going to be using it for school. I'm doing a multimedia project where I am going to try and make an animated music video for "Sleight of Hand". Would this program give me the functionality to do so?

Oh, my bad. That's a program to make animated gifs, I apparently didn't understand your question. I don't know anything about the kind of animation you're looking for, so disregard my comments heh.

This was all a ploy to help you boost your post count..

jimbo....


try looking up http://www.schoolworld.com

its a website for schools, staff, students, instructors etc. as long as you can prove youre affiliated with a school, the software is relatively cheap

*edited*

just looked it up

Paint Shop Professional v.8.0 WIN32 (JASC, INC) #314388 $69

damn you.

but is paint shop professional going to give me the functionality to do an animated music video? or animated gifs like scott thought it was?

You can disregard my pm about that program then

no, paint shop pro is similar to adobe photoshop.

ok then that's not what i'm looking for either.

*holds jims hand*

i bet if you searched for something like macromedia flash on there, it might give you a price


Flash MX 2004 v.2004 WIN/MAC (MACROMEDIA) #315010 $99

I actually already have flash but I wasn't sure if it would be the best tool to use. I guess I'll have to further investigate. Thanks though.