Animation
Computer graphic software used to create a graphic or series of graphics that seem to move or imitate what the object would do in real life. Simple animation may be a basic animated gif file that is a graphic of a mail envelope going into a mailbox on a website. A more complex animation could be of a human or alien face in a computer software game. Finally, a complex computer animation could be a space battle in a movie.
Below is a listing of some of the more popular and widely used animation and 3D animation programs.
- 3D Studio Max - http://www.autodesk.com/
- 3DPlus (Free) - http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
- Aviation:Master - http://www.hash.com/
- LightWave 3D - http://www.newtek.com/
- Elastic Reality / Avid 3D - http://www.avid.com
- Maya - http://www.alias.com/
- Macromedia Flash - http://www.macromedia.com/flash
- Motion Capture - http://www.metamotion.com/
- Poser - http://poser.smithmicro.com/
- SOFTIMAGE - http://www.softimage.com/
Also see: Animated GIF, Graphic, Machinima, Real-time animation