Animation for Amiga 1200

[XDelusion]

Another Paint / Anim program you can use is Cloanto's Personal Paint v7.
It supports custom screens, AGA, and multiple file formats, like JPEG, BMP etc.
I use it more then Dpaint.

Another anim program you can try is Disney's Animation Studio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeYivHZpB8

And another item, if you are more serious about your animations, you probably need a graphic tablet. Old WACOM serial work good with accelerated Amiga. When you are interested, I can dig one out and tell you the model number.

Model # please.

[amiman99]

Model # please.

It's ArtPad II Model KT-405-R

This Pad works good with Wacom Drivers found on Aminet here http://aminet.net/package/driver/input/Wacom_150 . To use it, you'll need 9-25pin serial converter.
There are bunch of these cards for sale on ebay w/o the pen, but here is the pen you need: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wacom-Duo-Switch-Ultra-Pen-Holder-UP-801E-OOH-Mac-PC-/291001001852?pt=US_Graphics_Tablets_Boards_Pens&hash=item43c102e77c

[mrmoonlight]

Another Paint / Anim program you can use is Cloanto's Personal Paint v7.
It supports custom screens, AGA, and multiple file formats, like JPEG, BMP etc.
I use it more then Dpaint.
 
Another anim program you can try is Disney's Animation Studio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeYivHZpB8
 
And another item, if you are more serious about your animations, you probably need a graphic tablet. Old WACOM serial work good with accelerated Amiga. When you are interested, I can dig one out and tell you the model number.

 
Hi and a warm thank you my friend and I would be very very grateful if you could let us know the model number and thank you for help in what to maybe try ,I ve got so many things coming this week and I am dying to try the Animation software that's due to arrive and on top of that a beautiful amiga 600 has just turned up and I need to try that first and I have a shed full of hardware to install in to that lol all exciting stuff my very best wishes and I look forward to the kind offer of the model number .Brian

[mrmoonlight]

It's ArtPad II Model KT-405-R
 
This Pad works good with Wacom Drivers found on Aminet here http://aminet.net/package/driver/input/Wacom_150 . To use it, you'll need 9-25pin serial converter.
There are bunch of these cards for sale on ebay w/o the pen, but here is the pen you need: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wacom-Duo-Switch-Ultra-Pen-Holder-UP-801E-OOH-Mac-PC-/291001001852?pt=US_Graphics_Tablets_Boards_Pens&hash=item43c102e77c

 
Wow that was quick and I am sure myself and other members are truly grateful to you for that important information ,thanks a million my friend Brian.

[rednova]

Dear friend:

I have good news.
There is a complete training lessons online on how to draw,
from begginning to advanced.It is completely free...and it will help
you make better animations and drawings.
Check on 'lessons' and 'free lessons' on
http://www.drawspace.com
The lessons are good, free, and it will hep you with animation
an drawing on amiga.

[mrmoonlight]

Dear friend:
 
I have good news.
There is a complete training lessons online on how to draw,
from begginning to advanced.It is completely free...and it will help
you make better animations and drawings.
Check on 'lessons' and 'free lessons' on
www.drawspace.com
The lessons are good, free, and it will hep you with animation
an drawing on amiga.

 Excellent my friend  the weekend is coming up and I will certainly be having a look at the free lessons I think I could do with some lessons because I am not the best drawer by a long way ,do you have any drawings that you have done and would like to share because there must be a lot of Amiga users who would gain a lot from some one like your self ,just a thought and my very best wishes to you Sir ,Brian.

[rednova]

Dear Friend:

I am a hobbyist animator with lightwave 3d. My cg portfolio is in
https://sites.google.com/site/rednova3d/
please check it out !!!

[mrmoonlight]

Dear Friend:
 
I am a hobbyist animator with lightwave 3d. My cg portfolio is in
https://sites.google.com/site/rednova3d/
please check it out !!!

 
Hey wonderful my friend and really impressed I hope I can become as good as you .and now Moviesetter has arrived so I am off to enjoy my Amiga and new software for a while ,we  will speak again my friend as I will let you know how I am doing with Moviesetter bye for now ,best wishes Brian.

[ChaosLord]

For 2D Animating I recommend:
Deluxe Paint 5 (not 3)
Disney Animation Studio

For 3D Animating I recommend:
Caligari (Various Versions)
LightWave 3.5

[bbond007]

For 2D Animating I recommend:
Deluxe Paint 5 (not 3)
Disney Animation Studio

For 3D Animating I recommend:
Caligari (Various Versions)
LightWave 3.5

i was reading to see if anyone would mention Disney Animation Studio which is also my suggestion.

[mrmoonlight]

i was reading to see if anyone would mention Disney Animation Studio which is also my suggestion.

Hi I had a little trouble with this one I downloaded it but it kept showing an error ,so I left it at that and went on to D/ PAINT which I like and Moviesetter but I don't have a manual to that one yet ,thanks for your input ,best wishes Brian.

[rednova]

dear friend:

I also have disney animation studio. I haven't used it yet, but is installed
in my HD and works fine. I checked it out a little bit, and it seems amazing
and good enough for doing great animations.
I believe it will be good for you to use disney animaton studio.
I also believe you can get as good (3d art)as I am, you just need
to start working dedicated and keep on. Eventually, you will become very
good.
Love !!!

[mrmoonlight]

dear friend:
 
I also have disney animation studio. I haven't used it yet, but is installed
in my HD and works fine. I checked it out a little bit, and it seems amazing
and good enough for doing great animations.
I believe it will be good for you to use disney animaton studio.
I also believe you can get as good (3d art)as I am, you just need
to start working dedicated and keep on. Eventually, you will become very
good.
Love !!!

Thank you for your kind words and I promise you I will settle down and begin to learn ,its been busy for me the last few days as I have 5 vintage computers arriving shortly so I am preparing a place for each of them along side my beautiful Amiga 1200 and baby Amiga 600 ,just incase you are interested my vintage computers are as follows
 
      two Vic 20,s
  one commodore plus 4
one commodore c 64 c
and one c 64
also a sd card reader that works with any of the five vintage computers
a psu power supply for the commodore  plus 4
so as you can imagine I am very excited but really need to begin my Animation learning , so very best wishes Brian xx

[Ral-Clan]

Hi,

Do a search on YouTube for "Amiga Deluxe Paint". There are several tutorial videos for using it for animation on there.  These are videos that were sold commercially in the 1980s/90s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S04TCNGkSD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfc0Slzf-sY

Deluxe Paint IV and V and Disney Animation Studio are the best because they have onion-skinning.  I tried MoveSetter but didn't like it because of the lack of onion-skinning, which makes it really hard to base the next frame on the old one (you can't see the old one).  I don't know how Eric Schwartz did so well with Movie Setter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_skinning

[mrmoonlight]

Hi,
 
Do a search on YouTube for "Amiga Deluxe Paint". There are several tutorial videos for using it for animation on there. These are videos that were sold commercially in the 1980s/90s.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S04TCNGkSD4
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfc0Slzf-sY
 
Deluxe Paint IV and V and Disney Animation Studio are the best because they have onion-skinning. I tried MoveSetter but didn't like it because of the lack of onion-skinning, which makes it really hard to base the next frame on the old one (you can't see the old one). I don't know how Eric Schwartz did so well with Movie Setter.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_skinning

   
Hi thank you so very much for your help excellent video/tutorials by the way and I really like D/Paint although I have a lot to learn ,I have been setting up my studio and will be happy when I can spend more time with D/Paint which is some thing I am looking forward too ,take care Brian.