Awesome Stuff: Tools For Animation

from the animate-stuff dept

Sat, Aug 31st 2013 9:00am — Mike Masnick

For this week's awesome stuff post, we're keeping it simple with just two items, both of which are free and open source projects having to do with animation.

First up is Tupi: 2D Animation Software for Everyone, which is exactly what it sounds like. The software looks very user friendly and fun to play around with. They're being a bit ambitious, looking for $30,000 and they still have a long way to go, but with three and a half weeks to go, if they can get some more attention, they still have a shot. The main reward levels are more like sponsorship levels, allowing animators to promote their works on the Tupi website, which may or may not be of interest to some. Still, the project itself looks quite cool.
Next up is a more specific project: apngasm, a tool for making animated PNG images, while also pushing to get past the animated GIF, and finally moving to PNG instead. Just like regular PNG images are much better than regular GIF images, the animated counterparts represent a step up as well. These guys started with a much more modest goal of $5,000, which they've just about doubled, and there's still a week to go.

I hope everyone has a nicely animated Labor Day weekend (if you're in the US) or just a regular weekend if you're elsewhere.

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Anonymous Coward, 31 Aug 2013 @ 9:19am

I should probably lay off of South Park.
Jesus Christ! Doesn't know? Mr. Mouse will fuck his shit up royally! Just ask the Jonas Brothers they know.
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Nina Paley (profile), 31 Aug 2013 @ 9:44am

Good heavens, I've backed both of those.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 31 Aug 2013 @ 7:09pm

Let Me Plug The Most Awesome Piece Of Software I Know ...
... Blender! It�s not just� a 3D package, you can use it for 2D animation, too!

�Did I really say �just�?
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- Ninja (profile), 2 Sep 2013 @ 4:17am
  
  Re: Let Me Plug The Most Awesome Piece Of Software I Know ...
  Indeed I've seen some indie stuff that used Blender and it looks plain awesome.
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Christine Derrel, 1 Sep 2013 @ 12:37am

Wow, that Tupi tool looks pretty cool!!!
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- McCrea (profile), 1 Sep 2013 @ 6:35am
  
  Re:
  It better look cool if it's going to make up for the horrible audio.
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blendererer, 1 Sep 2013 @ 9:46pm

Yes Blender needed included in this list
http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/animation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__u zGKmxt8
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diet pills, 7 Jan 2014 @ 9:37am

Awesome, good stuff!
for Animation its the best thing ever !!!!
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david, 2 Jan 2015 @ 3:25am

Wow that better look cool and plain full awesomeness
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Reynald, 12 Mar 2016 @ 10:59am

GH...
Good heavens, I've backed both of those.
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Tcnb, 23 Aug 2017 @ 4:10am

Hey
This is really great animations, I have already saved them all in my accounts.
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Matt Smith, 5 Jan 2019 @ 12:39am

Jesus Christ! Doesn't know? Mr. Mouse will fuck his shit up royally! Just ask the Jonas Brothers they know.

Source : https://techfela.com/1channel-kodi-addon/
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