Looking for a good quality animation program...

[Mehashi]

Hi Guys!

I am looking for a good quality animation program for my ubuntu, however I have a minor complication. My main pc is more than sufficient but sometimes I like to take my animations to friends and work with them or show them but this is done on a 1.8Ghz laptop with a 256 graphics chip.

Ideally I am looking for something that will still work on my laptop (low CPU rendering) but will give me 'professional' quality on my main system. I would still be happy with a decent program even if my laptop cannot handle it as I dont like the adobe flash program (too bloaty) that my college like me to use.

Any ideas are appreciated!

Thanks you!
Arigato gozaimasu!
^_^

[inobe]

1) http://www.blender.org/

2) http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page

3) http://www.wings3d.com/

4) http://www.artofillusion.org/

[Stochastic]

Are you looking for a 2-d or 3-d animation program?

inobe covered 3-d pretty good
as for 2-d the first that comes to mind is Pencil www.pencil-animation.org
there's also Stopmotion (http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/studentgrupper/2005-hig-stopmotion/index.php)

[eye208]

Synfig Studio:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/synfigstudio

[Mehashi]

Thanks guys!

I will try out these that have been advised!

It is (in the most of time) 3d animation that I perform.

I have just installed Blender and trying to get my head in it as the UI is not so intuitive to me! I will try these others also!

Thank you again!

(Also) I sometimes make flash animations and save them as html so that 'windows' plays them as a moving background, a nice touch to the 'windows' systems I build for friends! I am supposing that a similar thing should be acheivable with some of these programs?!

^_-

[Stochastic]

Blender really is the king of 3-d, but yeah, learning it can take a bit. Take a read through the tutorials (there's lots more than can be found through google): http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/