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  1. Re:Flash by h4rr4r · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users

    Silverlight DRM does not work on Linux nor do Silverlight 3 functions. The Mac version will die once SIlverlight gets real market share. See IE for Mac as previous evidence.

    2D
    http://www.synfig.com/
    http://ktoon.toonka.com/
    http://www.pencil-animation.org/
    3D
    http://www.blender.org/

    Probably more as well, but those are the first ones I found. synfig seems like the best candidate.

  2. Re:What do you use for cell animation? by shikari666 · · Score: 1 · on Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro

    I remember when FCP was called Keygrip and was demonstrated at a tiny demo station at NAB around 1997 or 1998. I believe that Randy Ubillos was the one doing the demo. Then Apple bought it and the rest is history.

    Anyway, for cell animation, try this GNU General Public Licence application: http://www.synfig.com/overview/

    At this point in time the Mac OSX package has been removed - temporarily, it seems - but versions for Windows and various flavors of Unix are ready to go. They do state: "Please keep in mind that current releases of Synfig are considered as developer previews. In other words, these releases are primarily targeted at developers, not end users. That being said, feel free to play around with it--just be sure to give it another chance later on down the road if you find yourself a bit frustrated with how things are currently set up."

    I have seen at least one commercial package for cell animation on the Mac. I image a little while spent with Google would reveal something. Cheers.

  3. If you want to understand their view by also-rr · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults

    Here are some animation tools Blender, Synfig. Go away and do something cool - say 60 seconds of original animation with some artistic merit.

    Then give it away, including the source files you used to make it.

    If it's any good it'll be hard. Really, trust me on this. I am very pro open content and I was shocked how hard it was to actually give things away. (More so with my writing than with animation, and I won't even try to kid myself that it would ever be good enough to sell.)

    Not only has it massivly increased my respect for those who *do* give away significant work under the GPL and similar licenses, it's also I hope made me a small amount less hypocritical in holding the view that all information should be Free. But I can't say that I view casual piracy the same way I did before either.

  4. Re:Looks interesting by also-rr · · Score: 1 · on Update on Xara's OS Vector Graphics Project

    There is also Synfig (link to screenshot) for Linux/OS X which is a vector package aimed at animators. I haven't come accross it before, although it was linked frm the Slashdot article, so I'll be back with a review in, uh, 12-20 hours. Pass the jolt please :)

  5. Synfig is buggy and needs developers... by pabs3 · · Score: 1 · on Efficient 2D Animation Software?

    Speaking as one of the people who packaged it for Debian, and now has upstream commit access, synfig has lots of crash bugs and other bugs. Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.

    http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/ [synfig.com]
    http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap [synfig.com] (not decided on or posted yet)

  6. Synfig is buggy and needs developers... by pabs3 · · Score: 1 · on Efficient 2D Animation Software?

    Speaking as one of the people who packaged it for Debian, and now has upstream commit access, synfig has lots of crash bugs and other bugs. Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.

    http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/ [synfig.com]
    http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap [synfig.com] (not decided on or posted yet)

  7. Synfig needs developers... by pabs3 · · Score: 1 · on Efficient 2D Animation Software?

    Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.

    http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/
    http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap (not decided on or posted yet)

  8. Synfig needs developers... by pabs3 · · Score: 1 · on Efficient 2D Animation Software?

    Synfig needs more people working on the code. The original developer doesn't have time for it, and I have commit access, but not time or knowledge of the code to reduce memory usage, fix crashers and so on.

    http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/
    http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap (not decided on or posted yet)

  9. Synfig by sir99 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Efficient 2D Animation Software?

    I haven't used it, but Synfig's capabilities look similar to Moho. Synfig is Free software.