Animation

Abrosoft FantaMorph - Skinable software designed to create image morphing and warping movie, play final effects in real time without exporting to a file. Product description, tutorials, how-to articles, free skins, screenshots, FAQs, and downloads.
fantamorph.com/

Active GIF Creator - Create animated GIF images for the Web. Even create movies using pictures or graphics created or edited in any image-editing program, including Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop and dozens of others.
www.wsoft-lab.com/products/agif/

Advanced GIF Animator - Tool for creating animated GIF images, banners, buttons, and even movies. Built-in image editor, palette optimization, image size reduction, and multi-language support.
www.gif-animator.com/

Aesop v.1.5 GIF maker - A tool to create animated advertising banners, buttons, and other graphics for a Website.
www.yukudr.com/bannercreator/

Alpha Plugins - Provides high-end filter plug-ins for graphical and video editors such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere.
www.adobefx.com

AniMate for DPS Reality - Software package for stop-frame animators working with the dpsPerception and dpsReality disk-recorder. (Windows 2000/XP)
www1.leitch.com/custserv/webdl.nsf/FD/AniMate_for_dpsReality25b24.exe?OpenDocument

Animated ArtCard Creations - Create professionally, framed, 24bit color, animated musical ArtCards. Collage favorite multimedia. Produce and print advertising fliers with flare, with WYSIWYG click/drag animations in real-time.
www.blaiz.net/aac.html

Animation Stand - Computer assisted animation and special effects system. Scanning, ink and paint, 3d shading, auto painting, animation direction with exposure sheet control, special and optical effects, lay out to tape, disk, or film, and management reporting.
www.animationstand.com/

AnimatorDV - PC based software for creating stop-motion animation or used as a previsualization tool in film production. Includes features, screenshots, movie samples, support and a demo version available for download.
animatordv.com/

Animats - Makers of Falling Bodies, a Softimage 3D dynamics plugin to animate fall stunts.
www.animats.com/

Animo - Complex 2D animation software package, includes a linetester, dialogue synchronising system and 3d software integration (Maya, 3D Studio) (Windows / MacOS X)
www.animo.com/

Anim8or - Freeware character animation and 3D modeling software. Runs on Windows NT, 9x and 2000 platforms.
www.anim8or.com/

AniTMT - Free flexible program that creates photorealistic animations calculated by the raytracer PovRAY. The calculation may be distributed across any TCP/IP network.
www.anitmt.de/

Anthropics Technology Limited - Synthactor enables the delivery of near-broadcast quality human-image video at data rates as low as 300 bytes per second. Provides identity enhancement and changing capabilities, as well as offering cost savings.
www.anthropics.com/

Artful GIF Animator - Create impressive and compact animated GIFs for banners, ads and web buttons on the fly.
www.abacre.com/gifanimator/

Ascension Technology Corporation - Makers of motion tracking gear used in character animation real-time simulation, virtual reality, medicine, and biomechanics.
www.ascension-tech.com/

AVD Graphic Studio - Editor for graphics, animation and video, edit, view and print images, using painting tools, drawing tools and various effects. Import multi frame files (AVI and animated GIF) for editing, easily receive separate frames and create animated GIF and AVI.
www.avlandesign.com/graphstudio.htm

AVD Video Processor - Capture separate frames from a video file. Control frame range, size, color and other parameters. Creating animated GIFs from your AVIs. Control GIF frames parameters. Creating animated GIFs and AVIs from your image sequence.
www.avlandesign.com/vp.htm

AVI Constructor Pack Software - A serious multimedia tool to quickly create AVI files from image BMP, JPEG, or TGA and sound files AVI or WAV files.
www.aviconstructor.com/

Boris FX - Developer of plug-in technology delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for post production, multi-media and web markets.
borisfx.com/

Boston Dynamics - Provides software and services for animation of lifelike humans in real-time simulation environments.
www.bdi.com/

BTV - Macintosh video application with frame capture features for stop motion, clay, and drawn animation. Includes version overviews, downloads and support.
www.bensoftware.com/

CelAction - A technology services company specializing in customized hardware and software solutions for animation production companies.
www.celaction.com/

CoffeeCup Firestarter - The fastest and easiest way to make flash effects for a website. Firestarter has over 50 built in ready to use effects like Assemble, Explode, Fade, and others, a collection of cool MP3 sounds, plus it's all in an easy to use interface.
www.coffeecup.com/firestarter/

CoffeeCup GIF Animator - Convert GIF, JPEG, and BMP graphics to animated GIFs automatically. Import and export AVI files, or save animations as Flash (.swf). HTML source is generated for easy insertion into Web pages.
www.coffeecup.com/gif-animator/

The Complete Animator - Easy to use web animation software package for Win 95 and above. Create fun cartoons or animated GIFs for a Web site.
www.iota.co.uk/tca/home/home.html

Crater Software - Developers of CTP, a 2D software designed to output broadcast quality animated series.
www.cratersoftware.com/

CrazyTalk Expression Editor - Quickly turn any image into a talking and animated "CrazyFace", by transforming text into personalized voice messages with synchronized lip movement, and facial expressions.
crazytalk.reallusion.com/

CreaToon - Create 2D animation with a cutout look at a fraction of the traditional production time. A free demo version can be downloaded.
www.creatoon.com/

2d3 - Developers of boujou, an automated camera tracker and match mover software.
www.2d3.com/

2D & 3D Animator - Program produces images, titles, banner ads and buttons for web pages or for presentations. It comes with an object-oriented design interface to edit graphics, manipulate text and layers (graphic animations), apply special effects, and then compile the animated graphic all from within the same program.
www.pysoft.com/GIF_Designer_fr.html

3D Choreographer - Animation program, designed for non-artists, for PowerPoint presentations, CD-ROM applications, corporate training, educational software, or on the Internet.
www.3dchor.com/3d/products_3d.html

Deformer - Image transformation and animation tool. All deformations and animation playbacks run in real-time regardless of the size of original image.
www.stoik.com/deformer/

DigiCel FlipBook - Easy to use animation software to scan, shoot, draw or trace animation directly into the computer for painting, playing, and publishing animated movies on film, television and the internet.
www.digicelinc.com/

Digital Anarchy - Makers of animation tools and special effects software for After Effects, Flash, and Discreet Flame/Inferno.
www.digitalanarchy.com/

Digital Juice - Motion backgrounds for non-linear editors and many static backgrounds.
www.digitaljuice.com/

Digital Video - Designed to simplify and speed up the animation production. Includes tools for: importing original pencil drawings and adding adjustments when required; inking and painting; building color models; creating exposure sheets; composting; creating special effects and recording the final images to video or film. Support for the Macromedia Flash formats as output.
www.toonz.com/

Dosch Design - Developer of add-ons for 3D graphics and animation applications.
www.doschdesign.com/

Easy GIF Animator - Utility that helps to create and edit animated GIF images. Set a variety of options to customize GIF animation. [Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP]
www.blumentals.net/egifan/

Easy Morph - Easy to use, wizard driven morphing and warping tool with a deformation engine. Reads and writes many types of image files, creates animation sequences of any length, works on images of any resolution, and outputs any resolution desired.
www.blackbeltsystems.com/bx_wi_mee.html

Facial Animation - 3d facial animation for performance, character and facial animation. Powerful software for performance animation and facial animation.
www.3d-character-performance-facial-animation.com/

famous3D - Software solutions to capture facial expressions and lip-sync, and therefore bring life to animated 3D characters.
www.famous3d.com/

FantaMorph - Animation software to morph images (Windows)
fantamorph.say-it-now.com

Firka - A pencil tester for cartoon animators. Camera movements, dialog framing, visual effects. Downloadable free version.
www.firkafilm.com/

FluxTime - Vector graphics and animation software tailored around the creative process. It produces images and animations that can be shown locally, on the Internet, or installed as screensavers.
www.fluxtime.com/

GIF Construction Set Professional - Features Animation Wizard to create sophisticated animations.
www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html

GL Studio - Create interactive real time animated 3D graphics, instrumentation and innovative user interfaces for training, simulation, and virtual prototyping.
www.simulation.com/products/glstudio/glstudio.html

ImageMatics - StillMotrion Creator is an easy to use interactive software product for creation very low bandwidth flash animations from still images. An animation movie creation and editing software for Web site developers using real images.
www.imagematics.com/

Imaja Bliss Paint - A real time animation tool for Mac OS. The interactive live performance, including MIDI, sound, PICT file and live video input, and live video and QuickTime output, and color synthesis are key features.
www.imaja.com/blisspaint/index.html

Imedia Builders - Development of FlareProducts, a family of products designed to make the creation of simple or web-based animation and interactivity easy.
www.flareworks.com/

iMEDIA Builders - iMB FlareWorks is a low cost, easy to use application for creating interactive buttons, menus, banners, slideshows, presentations, animations or websites in Macromedia Flash (SWF) or iMB Flare (FLR) formats.
www.imediabuilders.com/

INUS Technology - Data processing software for reconstruction of a real object.
www.rapidform.com/

Joe Alter - Developer of LipService, a facial animation and sculpting tool, and Shave And A Haircut, a hair modeling and animation software. Site offers product information, downloads and support.
www.joealter.com/

Kashmir 3D - Generate photo-realistic images and movies of landscapes using Digital Elevation Model files from the United States Geological Survey and the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. [Win 95/98/NT]
www.kashmir3d.com/

KoolMoves - Flash animation software for creation of text effects, personalized banners, animated clipart, games, slide show presentations, and entire websites.
www.koolmoves.com/

The Labs: GIFMerge for UNIX - A tool for building animated gifs, merge GIFs to a GIF animation.
the-labs.com/GIFMerge/

Ladybug2000 from Neatware - Programmable video player on Windows that can play a variety of formats.
www.neatware.com/ladybug2000/

Lost Marble - A 2D-vector-based cartoon-animation application designed to provide a complete set of tools to create animations. Provides a feature called Switch Layers that assists in creating lip-sync animation. [Windows and MacOS]
www.lostmarble.com/

MatchWare Multimedia Software - Latest software for web design, screen captures, GIF animation and voice email. Product specifications for Mediator6, ScreenCorder, Visual GIF Animator and VoiceMail including demonstrations, online tutorials and ordering.
www.matchware.com/

Media Semantics - Tools for building rich interactive media content hosted by believable cartoon and 3D characters.
www.mediasemantics.com/

Morpheus Software, LLC. - Morpheus is a graphics program that will morph/warp two images or movies in Flash, Animated GIF, and AVI. Tutorials, FAQs, help files, downloads, and information on ordering.
www.morpheussoftware.net/

Morphink Corporation - MorphInk 2.0 is a free style animation tool based on automatic morphing. Use for fun, for decorating Web sites, for presentations, or to create animated greetings and email them to friends. [Win 95/98/NT/2000]
www.morphink.com/

NACDraw - Creates accurate graphics, presentations, games and vector animation with controls, hyperlinks, sounds, music and speech recognition commands.
www.nacgeo.com/nacdraw.asp

Northern Lights Productions - Purveyors and developers of various 3D-effect software and hand crafted plugins for Electric Image Universe Animator.
www.northernlights3d.com/

Pandromeda, Inc. - MojoWorld makes it incredibly easy to create realistic animations of 3D landscapes and entire planets.
www.pandromeda.com/

Parasys Co. LTD. - Flying PopCorn is an animation and multimedia-authoring tool. Easy-to-learn graphical work environment, intuitive WYSIWYG editing, support for most images and video format.
www.parasys.net/

Plastic Animation Paper - Very fast and effective 2D animation software for the professional cartoon animator. Paperless system.
plasticanimationpaper.dk/

PNG/MNG Construction Set - Alchemy Mindworks Inc. - Create MNG animations using PNG images. The program features an animation wizard, to rotate, crop, color-adjust, and resize all or part of an animation sequence. Convert animated MNG files to AVI format, create 2D, rotating animated graphics, and protect the graphics using a protection matrix.
www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/pngpro.html

Polhemus - Provider of 3D position and orientation tracking, motion capture, and digitizing solutions.
www.polhemus.com/

Project Dogwaffle - paint and animation software - Onion skin animation (lighttable) and keyframes for dozens of filters and effects, use doggybag #2 to import your AVI files and paint over it
www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle

Reallusion 3d Graphic Animation Software - Effect3d is 3D animation and image editor software that creates 3D objects and animates them with motion and special effects. Export as animated GIF, BMP or JPG. Free trial download. CrazyTalk is facial animation software to synchronized voice and facial expressions to any photo or image.
www.reallusion.com/

ShowstoppersFX - Offer looping backgrounds, overlays and title animations for video editing. Overlay shapes and masks including versions with innovative particle effects. Animations supplied in QuickTime video format.
www.showstoppersfx.com/

Sothink SWF Quicker - A professional Flash movie maker and also a powerful tool to edit SWF file just the same as you have FLA file.
www.sothink.com/swfquicker/index.htm

Sphere - Windows graphics program to relax the user with animated colorful patterns.
www.sphere.me.uk

Spin Productions - Offers animation, design and effects services, specializing in film titles and longform productions.
www.spinpro.com/

Splash Particle System - 4D particle effects stand-alone software for 3D animations, by Ant Software.
freespace.virgin.net/cole.family/

StoryBoard Artist - Great for print as well as presentation-style storyboards: creates a timeline, and animates, with sound and transitions, exports to HTML and creates links for non-linear stories. [Windows/Macintosh]
www.storyboardartist.com/

The TAB - Animation software based on a new technology that includes an intuitive vector handling technique that uses dynamic control points and an adaptive fill system. From the developers of Toonz. Available both for Windows and Macintosh
www.the-tab.com/

Third Wish - Makers of the software Magpie, a tool that helps in the analysis of a recorded voice for lip sync animation.
www.thirdwishsoftware.com/

ThreeDimSim - A 3D mechanics simulation and rendering application. 3D scene is defined by script using simple shapes and imported meshes from 3ds, dxf and stl files. Scenes can be exported as a video clip (avi file) as well.
www.havingasoftware.nl/

Toon Boom Technologies Inc. - 2D animation software for businesses and individuals. Offers vector-based, resolution independent and multi-layer software systems with multi-format output to HDTV, Film, DVD, Imax and Macromedia FlashTM.
www.toonboomstudio.com/

Toonboom - Developers of USAnimation, a vector-based 2D animation system.
www.toonboom.com/

TriLab Productions makers of Digital Hotcakes - Digital Hotcakes - royalty free animated video backgrounds in several different categories (wedding, nature, abstract...)
www.animationsforvideo.com

TVPaint Developpement - Makers of computer assisted animation, compositing and special effects software for digital artists, cartoon animators and TV stations. Products include Aura Video Paint, Aura VT, Aura DV and Aura Claymation.
www.tvpaint.com/

Vicon Motion Systems - Software and systems for motion capture in the animation market, biomechanics and ergonomics.
www.vicon.com/

VolMorph v2.4 - Free 3D-volume morphing software with documentation that is intended for research or personal use only. Program will generate and visualize morphing sequences from one polygonal mesh to another. [SGI Irix 6.2, 6.3/Linux/Win 95/98/NT]
mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~gmt11/software/volmorph/volmorph.html

WebPainter - Includes all the tools needed to create professional Web animation and graphics. Unique cel animation interface to create small-sized, high-quality GIF animations, QuickTime movies, and JPEG and GIF files with the fewest possible steps.
www.totallyhip.com/webpainter.html

Wehner`s Animate DOS Command - The simplest way to animate GIF. A tiny MSDOS program that does everything that GIF can do.
www.wehner.org/tools/animate/

WinImages - Special effects animation tool. Morphing, warping, fire, lightning, plasma, ray tracing, heightfield rendering, particle systems, photometric adjustments, image editing with 70+ layer modes, geometric warping layer objects, color separation, and image manager. (Windows 95 through XP)
www.blackbeltsystems.com/

WinMorph - Free high performance warping and morphing software.
www.debugmode.com/winmorph/