Specialty Animation Software

Featured Download - People of all ages can create cartoons, animated GIFs, moving diagrams, and more.

Create motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web.

AVI authoring tool with features allowing you to "import images, sort them, add sounds and your logos, and create AVI animations and videos." $20 US. Download available.

AVI editor featuring Photoshop compatible plug-in support, 30 built-in effects, frame transformations, and more. $30-day trial, $20 US registration fee.

Create 2D animation in the cut-out style. Main features are: real-time editing previewing, automatic in-betweening, freedom of graphical style, and combining bitmaps with vector graphics.

Transform, distort, and animate images in real time. Export animations as AVI movies or animated GIFs.

"Flipmovie is a modest tool to combine still frames into animations. Features include: Transitions (Fade, Push, Wide, Slide), Titles (for introductions, credits, etc.), Cropping, Rotating, Adding layers... Ideal for stop-motion animation, or tweaking home-made movies made with a digital camera." Shareware - US$20.

Creates a video file from a series of JPG files. Files can be from any source, as long as they are all the same size. Freeware.

Moho is a 2D vector-based cartoon animation application that exports to QuickTime, AVI, and Flash formats. Shareware $99 US.

Create a movie by zooming and panning over a photo. For Mac OS X only.

A next generation Web animation package allows you to create animations without the limitations of GIF. Features Animation Wizard for assembling animations, Supercompressor for optimization, transparency, Banner generator, MNG to AVI conversion, and more. Shareware - $25US.

"pro motion is a pixel oriented drawing and animation software for Windows. It's ideal for artists working on detailed graphics for small displays like used with PDAs, handheld computers and mobile phones or to create light weight graphics for the Web or Macromedia Flash applications."