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Free GIF animator
More recent than Microsoft GIF Animator: Photoscape
free
works on Windows
no water mark
no expiration
display time can be set for each image:
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Free GIF animator
You can use Microsoft GIF Animator:
free
works on Windows (from Windows 95 to Windows 8)
no water mark
no expiration
display time can be set for each image:
It's a pretty old application though.
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Free GIF animator
If you don't mind using the command line, gifsicle is one of the best GIF animators I know of. It's open source (which means you get the full feature set for free, no watermarks or other tricks), and ...
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Simple 2D Animation software for infographics-like animations
Some additional tools besides the one you mentioned.
This 3 are compositing tools similar to After Effects. You can export as a movie and convert them to gif after.
Hit Film Express https://hitfilm....
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Convert video to APNG
You can:
split into PNGs: e.g. with FFmpeg ffmpeg -i input.mov -r 0.25 output_%04d.png (to get a picture every four seconds in this example).
resize the PNGs: e.g. with ImageMagick: mogrify -resize ...
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Programming animations for mathematical formulas
I would strongly recommend trying the Jupyter notebooks environment with one of several plotting libraries that support animation.
This combination lets you combine, on a single notebook page, text ...
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Free Video maker that can animate pictures
You can do both in Blender - it has a bit of a learning curve but:
Insert Image into video by using the video as the texture for one object and move moving another - Yes in 3D Demo of Video texture ...
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Convert video to APNG
You can use VirtualDub APNG Mod:
free and open source
it is a VirtualDub Mod so you have access to all VirtualDub features such as changing the FPS or change dimensions (i.e. resize):
handle APNG:
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Want to do wireframes characters
If you are only interested in 2D animations, take a look at Synfig Studio:
free and open-source
cross-platform
creates animation using a vector and bitmap artwork
supports layers
see here some ...
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Free GIF animator
http://ezgif.com/maker is one of the best web based GIF creators/editors.
free and no watermarks
great quality and sane file size/count limits
display time can be set for each frame, as well as loop ...
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Make 3D animations
The best answer is Blender 3D:
it can do all that you need and more
Free, Gratis & Open Source
Full 3-D modelling up to photo-realistic results if desired
Animation and Rendering including moving ...
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Sprite-based 2D animation software
Synfig Studio is generally the go-to OSS tool for 2D animation
It is certainly a bit overkill, but Blender is a very capable animation tool, and while totally geared towards 3D animation it can ...
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Free GIF animator
If you are using Mobile Platform for Creating GIF, then there is an App called "GIFSmak" Playstore Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smak.animatedcamera
It is free
No ...
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Want to do wireframes characters
It has been a while since I used it but Blender is the biggest and best free and open source modeling/animation. You can do *anything with it pretty much - well taking over the world might be ...
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Want to do wireframes characters
Poser combines modelling, scene construction and rendering and comes with simple models suitable for instruction posters and videos, as well as the more photo-realistic imagery usually associated with ...
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A good simple animation program for technical animations?
You can use Synfig Studio with this plugin, but the UI is horrible and takes awhile to learn which is why I wouldn't recommend it.
What I suggest is Animatron. Note, it's a web application, but you ...
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Convert video to APNG
Ezgif now supports video to APNG conversions.
http://ezgif.com/video-to-apng
You can upload any video format supported by ffmpeg, and select duration, resolution and frames per second.
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Stop motion animation software
Although I haven't tried any of the software myself, I have found a couple that might be of interest (none of them is open source, however).
First, if your son knows and likes working with Animator ...
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programmable 3D keyframe animation
Seeing your question caused "Blender" to pop into my alleged mind. A quick search for "Blender animation with parameters" resulted in the top return being a StackExchange answer from the Blender group....
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Is there any simple software to make your Comic stripes?
I would recomend Inkscape or gimp for free ( illustrator & photoshop alternative). I use Afinity photo & designer each cost around 50$ if you can afford you will love them. Don't forget to ...
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Is there any simple software to make your Comic stripes?
Since you can draw well, you can scan your comic stripes, then with a photo editor extremely enhance the contrast so to have it in pure black and white (open source software for this can be gimp, ...
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Is there any simple software to make your Comic stripes?
Krita is an Open Source suite for artists, directly competing with proprietary tools used in the industry such as Clip Studio Paint.
Unlike Gimp, which is an image manipulator, Krita is made for ...
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Video software that can move, rotate, and zoom pictures
With Blender you can attach a picture or even a video to a surface as a texture and manipulate animate the motion of that surface in full 3-D - for 2-D just limit the motion to one axis. There is even ...
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Open-source linux alternative for Flash (as an animating tool)
Maybe a bit late, but...
Have a look at AnimationMaker.
I am developing this app as an alternative to Edge Animate.
It's running on Linux and Windows and produces mp4, avi, animated gif and also HTML....
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Open-source linux alternative for Flash (as an animating tool)
As you previously stated Synfig Studio is a good option, but the UI is horrible and takes awhile to learn which is why I won't recommend it.
What I suggest is Animatron. Not It is a web application, ...
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Open-source linux alternative for Flash (as an animating tool)
So far, I have found only Synfig studio.
It seems to be a Free Software and having roughly the same capabilities as Flash, although with far worse GUI.
It has SVG import, it has no SVG export. There ...
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Software for creating 2D Animations in Web-friendly format
You can use Tupi.
It is a free and open-source software application for the design and creation of 2D animation.
Download here.
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Software to make math substitution animations
Processing.js and MathJax?
http://www.akb.me.uk/equations
Though to be honest, once your expressions have been converted to SVG (like MathJax does here) you could save it (or even screen-grab, trim ...
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Android Image Viewer for Webp and Animated GIFs
Quickpic is very good at gifs and can also open webp.
For .cbz I recommend Challenger Viewer
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