Computers

Motion backgrounds for non-linear editors and many static backgrounds.

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.

A technology services company specializing in customized hardware and software solutions for animation production companies.

A pencil tester for cartoon animators. Camera movements, dialog framing, visual effects. Downloadable free version.

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.

3d facial animation for performance, character and facial animation. Powerful software for performance animation and facial animation.

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.

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.

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.

Makers of Falling Bodies, a Softimage 3D dynamics plugin to animate fall stunts.

Software and systems for motion capture in the animation market, biomechanics and ergonomics.

Provider of 3D position and orientation tracking, motion capture, and digitizing solutions.

Developer of add-ons for 3D graphics and animation applications.

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]

Windows graphics program to relax the user with animated colorful patterns.

Tools for building rich interactive media content hosted by believable cartoon and 3D characters.

Programmable video player on Windows that can play a variety of formats.

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.

Developers of CTP, a 2D software designed to output broadcast quality animated series.

Flash animation software for creation of text effects, personalized banners, animated clipart, games, slide show presentations, and entire websites.

Consumer software and kernel technologies for facial animation and real-time movie making.

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.

Free high performance warping and morphing software.

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

Makers of animation tools and special effects software for After Effects, Flash, and Discreet Flame/Inferno.

Purveyors and developers of various 3D-effect software and hand crafted plugins for Electric Image Universe Animator.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

Animation software to morph images (Windows)

Macintosh video application with frame capture features for stop motion, clay, and drawn animation. Includes version overviews, downloads and support.

Open source and free, 2D animation software from Synfig Studio.

Open source program that converts video frames to GIF animations with thousands of colors per frame. Documentation, download links, examples.

A tool for spriting and pixel art. Freeware.

Freeware character animation and 3D modeling software. Runs on Windows NT, 9x and 2000 platforms.

Developers of boujou, an automated camera tracker and match mover software.

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]

Tool for creating animated GIF images, banners, buttons, and even movies. Built-in image editor, palette optimization, image size reduction, and multi-language support.

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

Create impressive and compact animated GIFs for banners, ads and web buttons on the fly.

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.

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]

A professional Flash movie maker and also a powerful tool to edit SWF file just the same as you have FLA file.

Provides software and services for animation of lifelike humans in real-time simulation environments.

Open source command line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing animated GIFs.

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.