Animating and Art resources

[Bastion 414]

Can anyone tell me some good software to use for animating and creating artwork, Microsoft paint sucks and windows movie maker is not going to do anything for me. all help is appreciated

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[Octavia's Cellozoid 1,488]

If you're looking to create vectors, InkScape seems to be the best choice. It works fairly well and is generally reliable.

 

I've heard that PaintTool SAI works well for drawing in general, but I really don't know .-.

 

As for animations, I honestly don't know anything. Sorry! Hope this helps anyways

[Hansel 1,512]

Digital Painting:

 

Adobe Photoshop

Paint Tool SAI

 

Vector Drawing:

 

Adobe Illustrator 

Inkscape

 

2D Animating:

 

Toonboom Animate  Pro

TV Paint

Cel Action

Adobe Flash

Adobe After Effects (Mostly used for composting, motion graphics, editing, effects animation, and general post-production. Almost always used together with Flash)  

 

3D Scultping:

 

ZBrush

Mudbox

 

3D Animating/modeling:

 

Maya

3ds Max

Cinema 4D

 

There are plenty of others, but those are some of the more commonly used pieces of software. Hope that helped. 

Edited August 9, 2013 by Hansel

[Motion Spark 7,809]

 

why do I even bother in offering my help?

very good @Hansel, it seems like you're on the digital stream, you know a lot of programs (some of I never heard about), you exhausted all the posibilities for me. XD