Finding freeware for animation

[pink986753421]

I was a game animator, and now I am School Technical Supporter
My School give me a task to make an educational cartoon to teach student something.

My School computer have Illustrator 8.0, Photoshop Element and Premium- pro Element
and No flash

No budget on new software and I cant use cracked software
(I known that are many way to find a cracked Flash)

I can draw some character in Illustrator or Photoshop and can Export it as Layered AI/PSD
Spike Sheet with animation or Spread Body
GIF/PNG sequence
but I find no software to animate it

I found some software but i stuck in some where
Synfig: Always Crash when it Open
Pencil/Tupi: I can input PNG sequence but i cant move the charator in all frame
(Pencil and Tupi is a hand draw animat)
Pivot Animator: we can skeleton the stick only
Scratch: it cant make animation about 15FPS

Someone can help me?

[pink986753421]

At 9/23/15 09:29 AM, Doomhammr wrote: Man, it sounds like you're stuck with some really obsolete software. That's terrible for the kids. Illustrator 8 was around back when I was in high school 16 years ago.

There's plenty of free options here that you can try: http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-flash/

the computer is new but the software are old =(
I saw that site
Synfig is crash with no reason in window 7

[pink986753421]

At 9/23/15 08:03 PM, Doomhammr wrote: Also, what are the specs of the computers you have to work with?

prenty
about 200GB on C drive and 600GB on D drive

[pink986753421]

At 9/23/15 02:44 AM, pink986753421 wrote:

Synfig: Always Crash when it Open

finally i found that is a bug in Synfig own a startup bug at version 1.0
I download the usable old version 0.64 and start learning to use
Duel with it

[muddcliff]

Synfig does have its issues but you can do puppet type animation.
Even in my tutorials I swear at synfig.
But I have learned that if you keep each animation short you can be somewhat sucessful.
See my signature for my tutorials.
You may be able to do frame by frame in synfig by manually editing .lst files the same way I use .lst files for lip sync.
Pencil 2d may be good too but I cant figure out how to color the lines.
Good luck

[pink986753421]

At 9/24/15 01:27 AM, muddcliff wrote: Synfig does have its issues but you can do puppet type animation.
Even in my tutorials I swear at synfig.
But I have learned that if you keep each animation short you can be somewhat sucessful.
See my signature for my tutorials.
You may be able to do frame by frame in synfig by manually editing .lst files the same way I use .lst files for lip sync.
Pencil 2d may be good too but I cant figure out how to color the lines.
Good luck

I quite surprise that Synfig cant move the import image directly
I spend an hour to fine a way to move my imported png
the imported image stored in a stupid spike format
I can only change the left top point and right bot point of spike
That sucks and easily destroy the scale of the image

on the other hand, i had to find the way to rotate my imported PNG
That stupid but I had to Duel with it =(

If i have flash or After Effect, I can did it in 5 second

[cuteboy99]

At 9/24/15 02:39 AM, pink986753421 wrote: If i have flash or After Effect, I can did it in 5 second

download the trial verison of adobe software, since you can make it in 5 seconds the trial verison last for 30-day trial period. you can do something around that time!

[pink986753421]

At 9/24/15 03:09 AM, cuteboy99 wrote:

At 9/24/15 02:39 AM, pink986753421 wrote: If i have flash or After Effect, I can did it in 5 second

download the trial verison of adobe software, since you can make it in 5 seconds the trial verison last for 30-day trial period. you can do something around that time!

that not a good solution
first project I can use the trial venison as education usage
but I had to duel with Synfig after 30 days

[cuteboy99]

At 9/24/15 05:25 AM, pink986753421 wrote:

At 9/24/15 03:09 AM, cuteboy99 wrote:

At 9/24/15 02:39 AM, pink986753421 wrote: If i have flash or After Effect, I can did it in 5 second

download the trial verison of adobe software, since you can make it in 5 seconds the trial verison last for 30-day trial period. you can do something around that time!

that not a good solution
first project I can use the trial venison as education usage
but I had to duel with Synfig after 30 days

then that mean that you will have to use Synfig until you can acually afford one i guess!
if you want another altertive there is pencil2D if you want to try a new animation tool.
http://www.pencil2d.org/pencil2d/

[pink986753421]

At 9/24/15 05:47 AM, cuteboy99 wrote:

At 9/24/15 05:25 AM, pink986753421 wrote:

At 9/24/15 03:09 AM, cuteboy99 wrote:

At 9/24/15 02:39 AM, pink986753421 wrote: If i have flash or After Effect, I can did it in 5 second

download the trial verison of adobe software, since you can make it in 5 seconds the trial verison last for 30-day trial period. you can do something around that time!

that not a good solution
first project I can use the trial venison as education usage
but I had to duel with Synfig after 30 days

then that mean that you will have to use Synfig until you can acually afford one i guess!
if you want another altertive there is pencil2D if you want to try a new animation tool.
http://www.pencil2d.org/pencil2d/

I Tried Pencil be4 I use Synfig

Pencil is a hand Drawing animator
It OP if we have hard hand drawing skill
But I have no drawing board on my working desk

I cant move my import image in pencil
even a signal image, Spike sheet of image sequence
I cant move or rotate in pencil