Simple 2D Animation Software for UNIX-like OSes 51
BSDanimation asks: "I want to create slide based cartoon-like animations with speech bubbles and simple programmable 2D effects in a widely accepted format like MPEG or AVI. I have considered using Ming to code a Flash animation, but then decided against Flash and would prefer to stay away from such proprietary formats. Blender seems nice, but is too complex and a complete overkill. OpenOffice presentations seem promising, but I am not sure if it is possible to program effects and speech bubbles in it and export such presentations into a format other than Flash. What free UNIX-like OS based open source software is there for such simple 2D animation that would also allow me to distribute my animations commercially without any licensing restrictions?"
Re:Blender is not Overkill (Score:3, Interesting)
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Cinepaint (Score:3, Interesting)
"proprietary"? (Score:5, Interesting)
The good old days... (Score:4, Interesting)
Sometimes the march of progress plows under the simple-but-useful.
Re:Blender is not Overkill (Score:5, Interesting)
Moho (Score:3, Interesting)
All smartass commentary aside, I think it's great that the Lost Marble guys have ported to Linux. I'm sure it's been a total loss as far as monetary return-on-investment goes, but I like to think that the PR value has made it worthwhile (heck, it made me post this to SlashDot).