Animation please help!

Question

does anybody know what program this guy might have used for this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnsfV5N2n8&feature=iv

if so please tell me or if you know another good free program, that would be even better so please help!

Answer 1

He says right on his profile that he uses Flash 8.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TomSka

Some of the better commercial 2D animation programs such as Digicel Flipbook, Toon Boom, TVPaint, TAB, and PAP, have Student or Express versions that are fairly inexpensive. However, you might be disappointed by how crippled these stripped down programs are compared to their more expensive Pro versions. But if you look hard enough you should be able to find them cracked online (rapidshare, bittorrent). There are some free alternatives.

If you're doing old school drawn on paper frame by frame stuff or stop-motion or 2D, I'd suggest MonkeyJam. It's free.

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.co...

If you're on a Mac, use Pencil(there's PC and Linux versions as well).

http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil...

If you want to do Flash animation like the stuff on Newgrounds.com, either break down and buy Adobe Flash or you can try Creatoon or Synfig, which are free. They're not Flash, but they also do vector based symbol oriented

animation.

http://www.creatoon.com/index.php

http://www.synfig.org/

Here are some online resources about the basic principles of animation.

http://www.idleworm.com/how/index.shtml

http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/lessonp...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/...

http://www.karmatoons.com/drawing/1a.htm

http://w ww.animationarena.com/principles-of-anim...

http://w ww.animationmeat.com/notes/notes.html

Answer 2

My guess is that he used pivot, but if he did he's really good. Most people I know who use pivot only can make stick people.

The only other program I know that's similar to that would be flash, the stuff you see on Newgrounds most of the time, but that's not free.