Animation software for home movies

Creatoon - full fledged animation program with many features for creating different types of animations. Fairly easy to use
Website : www.creatoon.com

Pivot - for stick figure animation

Serif 3d Plus - free software for conventional “web” animation, such as banners and text, the free Photoplus supports gif animation also
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/3dPlus/default.asp

Movies 13 - http://jansfreeware.com/jfgraphics.htm

Project Dogwaffle 1.2 - free paint program that allows for gif animation, commercial version is also available.
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/index.html

Animationfactory.com

Software to create animation graphics and text

Software used to create animation graphics and text

1. Photoshop - not free, can be used to animate text. The frames can be exported to ImageReady to set frame rate.

2. Gimp - open source photoshop replacement

3. Lunapic - used to dissolve frames, so that they seem to be moving

4. DAZ studio

5. 3D studio max

6. Macromedia Flash - for flash animation

7. Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro - free online trial version available, some practise is required.