Animation for Mac? - Beyond Tiki

T Tiki-bot Member Joined: Jun 24, 2002 Posts: 1345	T Tiki-bot Posted posted on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 11:11 AM I would never own a Mac if ya paid me! Overpriced piece of.... oh, this isn't a "I hate Macs" thread? Okay. I use a PC since I mostly do 3D modeling and animation, and the Mac is geared more toward graphic design and print production. Anyway, there's lots of software out there to animate on the Mac, but I have used none of it. Photoshop can now do animated GIFs a lot easier and faster than before, but for real animation apps, you should look at this (ugh!) Apple page: http://guide.apple.com/ On the left side under "software", click "animation" in the categories and "retail". Apps like these often have free demos you can download for evaluation. It looks like there are also some freeware and shareware packages, but only a couple. Prices vary wildly for simple apps all the way up to professional products for thousands of $. Beyond that, most apps have web forums for their users where a lot of useful info can be found. Also look at the software forums on CGTalk.com. Might be some helpful stuff there, too. My best advice would be to spend your money on a PC instead....oops! There I go again. Best of luck!

I would never own a Mac if ya paid me! Overpriced piece of.... oh, this isn't a "I hate Macs" thread? Okay. I use a PC since I mostly do 3D modeling and animation, and the Mac is geared more toward graphic design and print production. Anyway, there's lots of software out there to animate on the Mac, but I have used none of it. Photoshop can now do animated GIFs a lot easier and faster than before, but for real animation apps, you should look at this (ugh!) Apple page:

http://guide.apple.com/

On the left side under "software", click "animation" in the categories and "retail". Apps like these often have free demos you can download for evaluation. It looks like there are also some freeware and shareware packages, but only a couple. Prices vary wildly for simple apps all the way up to professional products for thousands of $. Beyond that, most apps have web forums for their users where a lot of useful info can be found. Also look at the software forums on CGTalk.com. Might be some helpful stuff there, too.

My best advice would be to spend your money on a PC instead....oops! There I go again. Best of luck!

Post #207900 by Tiki-bot on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 11:11 AM