Express Animator 1.01

Express Animator is an animation tool for creating animations, cartoons and presentations with sound and music - fast.
You can put your animations on your website, add pictures to your MySpace page, upload them onto YouTube, send them in e-mails to your friends or use them with your video editing software to burn them onto DVD.
The animations created using Express Animator can be saved in the Flash format (SWF) to be viewed on a website or in Microsofts new Silverlight format.
Express Animator will also allow you to save the animations as windows video (AVI) files to view on your computer or, by using a video editing software of your own, yo ucan save them onto a DVD.
Express Animator is designed with animators in mind so there are lots of features that will help you make great looking cartoons and animations.
Main features:
Puppet Modelling
- Link together arms and legs and heads to create characters which you can easily move about like puppets. Use your characters in your own cartoon stories. In animation studios this process is refered to as skeletal animation:
Dingbat Graphics
- Include hundreds of dingbat graphics in your animations. These are vector shapes which can be coloured and edited to suit your needs. There are hundreds more dingbat graphics that you can download for free from the internet. Here is an example of making an advert using the dingbats on your system.
Pseudo 3D Shapes
- There a variety of pseudo 3D shape tools which make it easy to draw spheres, cylinders and cones with just a few clicks. Pseudo 3D shapes are simply shapes that are shaded in to look 3D:
Morphing
- Morphing is fully implemented so you can apply morphing (also known as shape-tweening) to shapes to smoothly convert one shape into another:
Masks
- A mask is a like a window which shows only parts of other shapes.
- Import Flash Animations (SWF files) into your project for editing
- Import bitmap images (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF) into your project
- Import vector graphics (SVG) into your project
- Import wave sounds and music (WAV) into your project
- Use hundreds of included graphic pictures (Dingbats)
- Export animations in Adobe Flash format or as Windows Video (AVI)
- Export single frames in Microsofts Silverlight format, PDF files, postscript (EPS) files, Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) files or as plain bitmap files (BMP).
System requirements:
- Screen Resolution: 800x600 (1024x76 recommended)
- Colours: 16-bit (24-bit recommended)
- RAM: 64MB (256MB-1GB recommended)
Version restrictions:
- 15 days trial