Is there any other animation program besides Synfig?

[TheNerdAL]

I find Synfig Studio to be too confusing. I Can't even make a black rectangle! D:

Is there any other one? I tried Pencil but I Can't change the colors.

[Frogs Hair]

I'm not sure , but give this a shot if haven't already. http://synfig.org/wiki/Tutorials

[TheNerdAL]

I'm not sure , but give this a shot if haven't already. http://synfig.org/wiki/Tutorials

Tried it. :P But I can't seem to make a black rectangle when trying the red ball animation. :P

EDIT: Nevermind, I finally got it.

[kevlar_fr]

Hello ! We're developping an animation program for Ubuntu, wich is a light derivative of Macromedia Flash. Ella (Elegant Light Linux Animator) can yet produces complex Flash animations, with sounds, multi-layers, and so on ... You can find a summary here : http://ella.tuxfamily.org/wiki/Main_Page

Our project has a thread on Ubuntu.fr here (in french) : http://http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=321017&p=1

And, on Launchpad :
https://launchpad.net/ella (https://launchpad.net/ella)

Here is a screenshot in english : http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4112/capture1ql.th.png (http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture1ql.png)

and a sample of Swf file produced by Ella (a raceway demo advertisement ; http://kevlar.voila.net/temp/raceway_advertisement.swf

[murderslastcrow]

Ah, very interesting. I use GIMP for my animations, personally, with a video editor on the side. Getting the FPS right takes a little bit of work, but usually nothing too epic. If you need smooth transitions and all that, Synfig or this ELLA may be a better idea.

Of course, the last version of Flash produced by Macromedia works very well in Wine if all else fails, and you have a license on hand.

[Warpnow]

Try Blender...hugely popular.

[WalmartSniperLX]

Hello ! We're developping an animation program for Ubuntu, wich is a light derivative of Macromedia Flash. Ella (Elegant Light Linux Animator) can yet produces complex Flash animations, with sounds, multi-layers, and so on ... You can find a summary here : http://ella.tuxfamily.org/wiki/Main_Page

Our project has a thread on Ubuntu.fr here (in french) : http://http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=321017&p=1

And, on Launchpad :
https://launchpad.net/ella (https://launchpad.net/ella)

Here is a screenshot in english : http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4112/capture1ql.th.png (http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture1ql.png)

and a sample of Swf file produced by Ella (a raceway demo advertisement ; http://kevlar.voila.net/temp/raceway_advertisement.swf

Thanks for posting info on your project :) I'll be looking into this on the side with my animation classes.

[Madspyman]

Ah, very interesting. I use GIMP for my animations, personally, with a video editor on the side. Getting the FPS right takes a little bit of work, but usually nothing too epic. If you need smooth transitions and all that, Synfig or this ELLA may be a better idea.

Of course, the last version of Flash produced by Macromedia works very well in Wine if all else fails, and you have a license on hand.

Agreed, I own a copy of Flash MX 2004, it works great in Wine. I've tried Synfig out and like it for animating, but Flash MX has the easiest vector based drawing tools I've ever used proprietary or otherwise. They are something I've not seen attempted to be replicated in the foss world. Although kudos to the Gimp, cause it got me off Photoshop completely.

[kevlar_fr]

Ella remains experimental ; you need swftools installed to use the SWF exportations.
Now, we're working on SVG animations exportations, and, as soon as possible, HTML5/Javascript too.:P