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willz06jw
February 15th, 2007, 09:42 PM
Howdy,

I am trying to find a good animation creator for Ubuntu. Does Gimp do that? What would be the best program?

Thanks for all of your time and help,
William Howard

K.Mandla
February 15th, 2007, 10:07 PM
Gimp-GAP (http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/graphics/gimp-gap) does some animation. If you're comfortable with the Gimp, it's a step in the right direction.

lyceum
February 15th, 2007, 10:09 PM
Depending on what you are doing , Blender would fit the bill. Blender does 3D animation, like Maya. It is VERY good, but takes a bit of getting use to. Once you know it though, it makes your mouse and keyboard more like gloves. Very natural feeling. There is a Bledner magazine with tutorials, and one was for 3D animation that looks like 2D animation. Check out their website or wikipedia for more info...

http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html

finferflu
February 15th, 2007, 10:11 PM
If you want to do 3D animation, I've heard that Blender does a good job as well, just look at Elephants Dream (http://orange.blender.org/)...

uuwatti
February 15th, 2007, 10:51 PM
If you wanna do 2d animation there is Synfig (http://www.synfig.com) (kind a like flash) also ktoon @ http://ktoon.toonka.com/
Also a few commercial tools, Paper Animation Plastic (google it) and Anime studio or something like that, which isn't released yet.

doobit
February 15th, 2007, 10:58 PM
My 16 YO nephew has been using Blender for about two years, and he is very fast with it. He can make any 3D idea you can think of into a reality.

Omnios
February 15th, 2007, 11:11 PM
I have done some animated gifs with gimp which works rather well. Blender is complicated but I found a video how to that helps a lot.
http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=blenderMoyesSeries001

Usinf gimp you want to open layers and save as an animated gif and each layer will be saved as an animation cell.

Omnios
February 16th, 2007, 12:26 AM
If you wanna do 2d animation there is Synfig (http://www.synfig.com) (kind a like flash) also ktoon @ http://ktoon.toonka.com/
Also a few commercial tools, Paper Animation Plastic (google it) and Anime studio or something like that, which isn't released yet.

Hay bud I managed to install Synfig but am having problems with Ktoon. I tryed installing the tarball with errors and then found a Debian ktoon package and tryed that. The tarball installed with errors and trying to launch the program resulted in errors for both. I am very interested in these packages as I have been looking for a 2d animator for a long time.

P_Badger
February 18th, 2007, 07:03 PM
I've never got Ktooon or Synfig to work properly, or at all, really, in Ubuntu.

I've been playing with "Plastic Animation Paper", though, and love it. The PAP:Free version is, well, free. The other two versions can be tried out, too.

http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/

I don't think "Anime Studio" is even available for Linux, yet. They keep saying they'll make a linux version, but I'm not holding my breath.

onit420
January 16th, 2009, 01:10 PM
i want to run an animation program called "plastic animation paper" i downloaded and extracted the linux version from the sight
in the installation folder there is a file called "papconfigure.run
it will not open or run
is there another program that installs it
what am i doing wrong
someone please help


its a learning prosses but i love it

Keyper7
January 16th, 2009, 01:24 PM
Hay bud I managed to install Synfig but am having problems with Ktoon. I tryed installing the tarball with errors and then found a Debian ktoon package and tryed that. The tarball installed with errors and trying to launch the program resulted in errors for both. I am very interested in these packages as I have been looking for a 2d animator for a long time.

What's the problem with the ktoon version from the Ubuntu repositories? I installed it here and it seems to work fine.

Bölvağur
January 16th, 2009, 02:08 PM
in the installation folder there is a file called "papconfigure.run
it will not open or run
is there another program that installs it
what am i doing wrong

ok we know that you are trying to run this file, but we dont know what you have done or how you are trying to run it.

does it have the rights to execute under your user?
if not you can right click → properties and add executable to it's rights and then double click it.

or like most people would say

chmod u+x papconfigure.run
./papconfigure.run




btw Autodesk Maya only costs $5000 or $2000 for the limited version. It runs of course natively in linux.