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Autodesk Animator

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Autodesk Animator
Developer(s)Yost Group, Autodesk
Stable release
Animator Studio / 1995
Operating systemPC (MS-DOS, Windows 95)
Type2D Animation software

Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max) and ran on a PC under MS-DOS.

The program was considered to be groundbreaking in the field of computer animation when it was initially released, and was very popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Eventually development on the product ended and it became no longer supported by Autodesk.

Animator gave the ability to do frame-by-frame animation (creating each frame as an individual picture, much like traditional cel animation). "Animator Studio" also had tweening features (transforming one shape into another by letting the computer draw each in-between shape onto a separate frame).

While "Animator" and "Animator Pro" supported only the input and output of FLI and FLC animation files, "Animator Studio" supported also the input and output of the AVI animation format.

Autodesk Animator release history

Version Platform Release date Significant changes
Animator DOS October 1989 320x200 pixels in 256 colors
Animator Pro DOS July 1991 almost any resolution and color depth
Animator Studio Windows 1995 re-write for Windows

See also