Introducing: The 'Most Annoying Entry' Winner

(Roll Fizzlebeef enjoys a good Cleveland Steamer, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 15:57, archived)

ha ha ha
( Forkit I Love Vectors, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 15:58, archived)

*cheeky threadjack*
My neighbor is asking me about some 'good animation software'.

I thought of Flash straight away, but now I can't think of anything else.
It's his xmas present so I'd guess he will pay for it, or if there's free ones or something, I don't really know.

Oh animating strange bunch of /Board, what say you?
( moohalaa is rockin' the suburbs, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:01, archived)

Virtual Dub!

(dogof2head, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:02, archived)

*scribbles down*

( moohalaa is rockin' the suburbs, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:04, archived)

Haha!
Virtual Dub is poo for anything unusual, format-wise, dahlink!

I use squared5 for conversions and now use AoA for extracting the raw audio data (because it is sooo fast)
( Pedantichrist can just fuck off., Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:04, archived)

Not heard of squared5, I'll have a look at that.
I've been using SUPER for conversion, but it's less than helpful when something goes wrong.
( Kamikaze Stoat in ur city, Blobbing ur graydians, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:08, archived)

Indeed.
I use foobar2000 for audio conversion, but it's not well documented - audacity is excellent, squared5 is exc ellent.
( Pedantichrist can just fuck off., Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:11, archived)

i know
i was doing a Virtual joke :-)
(dogof2head, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:09, archived)

hahaha!

( Letum Spack Monkey, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:05, archived)

phwoar!

( plentyofants feels disloyal, as not convinced by the wrong door, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:15, archived)

cream with that?

(dogof2head, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:15, archived)

You can't beat me! I'm cheap too.
:D
(Paper 'n Pencil, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:03, archived)

Haha, I can imagine
he does paintings on a fine art degree, I think.
( moohalaa is rockin' the suburbs, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:04, archived)

Jim has a degree in fine art and is a professional artist,
painting landscapes in oils (paints and just oils) and varnishes, but I'd never let her near any software I didn't want corrupted.
( Pedantichrist can just fuck off., Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:07, archived)

Tattyshop comes with Imageready (or at least used to)
but both are my favourite weapons of choice (cost a fair bit)

I've heard good things about GIMP (being free and all) but have no idea if that can be used for animating
( McBadger is loved up right now :D, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:04, archived)

I agree.
Imageready is excellent for animating.
( Pedantichrist can just fuck off., Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:05, archived)

Imageready..gotcha.
I'm sure he can get a Yarr, Pirate version of photoshop or Gimp on the sly.
( moohalaa is rockin' the suburbs, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:06, archived)

well GIMP is free anyway (no need for haxx elite)
but I cannot condone piracy ; D

'tucks away mp3 player with 15,000 odd songs'
( McBadger is loved up right now :D, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:09, archived)

IR no longer comes with PS
and in fact Adobe have discontinued it. PS10 (CS3) contains most of the functionality for creating animated gifs, but NONE of the functionality for importing and editing them. Adobe's position is that you should now use Fireworks to edit animated gifs. Unfortunately Fireworks is a bloated piece of shit.
( mofaha : howling down the chimney, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:11, archived)

really?
that's a bit cack. But yes, photoshop has most of the good stuff for doing gifs and decent optimisation controls
( McBadger is loved up right now :D, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:13, archived)

I agree, it really is cack.
PS10 is the first PS version I've seen which has actually lost vital functionality. I really hope they sort it out in the next iteration. It would be a real pity to see this trend continue... one concern is that they'll take out PS's vector capabilities in order to encourage sales of Illustrator. That would be a huge issue for me personally, and I definitely wouldn't upgrade.
( mofaha : howling down the chimney, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:20, archived)

You can import
go to import
then type *.* in film name and all your fav files are there to import to stage :)
(asciifaceofbob is, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 17:03, archived)

I've not tried it,
but Synfig is free
( Kamikaze Stoat in ur city, Blobbing ur graydians, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:05, archived)

ooh, cool

( moohalaa is rockin' the suburbs, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:06, archived)

cor
I just had a look at that, looks like a quality bit of gear
( McBadger is loved up right now :D, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:11, archived)

Got the link from this:
www.emmaalvarez.com/2007/12/top-best-50-ubuntu-opensource.html
Almost makes me want to try Linux again.
( Kamikaze Stoat in ur city, Blobbing ur graydians, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:15, archived)

Artofillusion looks like a mighty braw program
top linkage there : D
( McBadger is loved up right now :D, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:20, archived)

Blimey
that's hypnotic.
( Mod Edit, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:00, archived)

oh
i just counted them.

haha.

(i'm bored today)
(dogof2head, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:02, archived)

did you count each axis and multiply them?

( Bloop SnarnAndTheWorldSnarnsWithYouCrandAndYouCrandAlone, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:09, archived)

yup
i counted each axis.

there were two.
(dogof2head, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:10, archived)

well done!

( Bloop SnarnAndTheWorldSnarnsWithYouCrandAndYouCrandAlone, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:18, archived)

nice!
i had it on my mind
(disconnected, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:03, archived)

*opens calculator*
hmmm, 245.7kb
You did this first didn't you?
( Letum Spack Monkey, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:04, archived)

What?
Does your browser download that file 182 times or something?
( mediocre so young & so 1337, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:06, archived)

Owned
Or something
(Roll Fizzlebeef enjoys a good Cleveland Steamer, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:17, archived)