Whats a good Flash animator

[Healix]

I absolutely love to animate and as of this point can only do stop-motion. I have never tried flash and i really want to try it. I know there is adobe flash, but thats like 700 dollars.... Is there any cheaper "GOOD" programs i can use?

[Roon]

As far as "Flash" animation is concerned, Adobe Flash is the way to go. Of course there are several programs out there that will get the job done, but you by all means will not receive the versatility that flash has to offer if you use an alternative,

So if you want professional looking flash animations, Get Flash...

Don't forget that adobe has a free 30 day trial which you can check flash out with.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Other flash programs that you might look into

Swift
Toon Boom Studio

[Alexman159]

to tell you the truth there are no "good" free flash animators. Just go with the trial for now then buy an older version of flash. I use flash 8 and it's fine

[Dugh]

Liveswif

[Insanimation]

Here's a list of Flash-like programs. Most of them are trials, but some are free...

Adobe Flash CS4 Get the free 30-day trial first.
LiveSwif A free Flash-like program, but it's way worse.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator A free stickfigure animator. Only exports as GIFs though, and is very bad. OK for beginners though..
Pencil Don't know much about it, but I think it's free.
KoolMoves Free trial
ToonBoom Used less for internet animation, more for TV.

[PROXER]

At 12/22/08 03:39 PM, Dugh wrote: Liveswif

Uhmm, ain't posting links to pirated software kinda' against the NG forums rules, valid point or not?

[K-Guare]

At 12/22/08 04:52 PM, PROXER wrote: Uhmm, ain't posting links to pirated software kinda' against the NG forums rules, valid point or not?

Yes, but LiveSwif is free.
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