Artoonix [commercial]

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To make an 8-minute cartoon with drawings, you would need: 7,000 sheets of paper or celluloid, 150 sheets of cardboard to paint backgrounds, 50 felt-tip pens, 10 quill pens, 50 pencils, five erasers, 20 brushes, 2.5 gallons of paint, 1/2 pint of ink. And a spare year of your life... Or you can use Artoonix and finish it in days!

[url=\"http://www.artoonix.com/en/index.html\"][b]Artoonix[/b][/url] is a simple to use yet powerful software to create cartoons or animated movies. Animate the still pictures or drawings, import them from movies and series of photos, add your own sounds or insert music clips... In short, try out your creativity and then show the results to your friends or family.

Artoonix features

Draw the pictures or import them from files. You can import both still pictures (in almost any existing format - JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF... even transparency information is preserved) or from series of frames from any movie you have (avi, animated GIF's).

Animate your own drawings or stills imported from other sources using a wide range of traditional animation tools. Artoonix has a frame-based editor so you can performed detailed modifications, while multi-object multi-frame fuinctions allow to significantly increase productivity. There are also "Distort" and "Warp" object transformations functions to facilitate fluid movements in the animations.

Record sounds with your microphone or insert soundtrack from any audio file (WAV, MP3). There is an advanced multi-track sound editor to achieve the best sound for your animations and movies

Export the animation into high-quality movie files (e.g. into an .avi file with your favourite compression codec), Flash SWF or an animated GIF files for easy web publishing, e-mailing, use as your mobile phone wallpaper... You can also publish your works in the artoonix Gallery.

Free trial version Download
The trial version is fully functional for unlimited amount of time but has annoying registration reminders, watermarked output and limited support.
Register to remove these limitations and get access to premium support services.

System Requirements:
Windows OS (98, ME, 2000, XP), 600MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 50 MB hard disk space

ARTOONIX, Full installation (Windows installer, 7.06 MByte)
Version 1.5. Includes 6 demo projects.

Register the 1.x version of Artoonix for 20 US dollars only (instead of normal price of 39.95 US dollars).