Animation on Macbook

[Rhodan]

What application can I use for creating some animations on a Macbook?

I don't need to do something too complicated, just a simple animation for a project.

Besides Final Cut / Final Cut Express (will these work?), is there anything else? Anything that's free or open source?

Thanks

 

[blinkie]

What application can I use for creating some animations on a Macbook?

I don't need to do something too complicated, just a simple animation for a project.

Besides Final Cut / Final Cut Express (will these work?), is there anything else? Anything that's free or open source?

Thanks

I mostly use Photoshop and sometimes iStopmotion. But I don't know what your project is so it's hard to recommend one to you. I've tried quite a lot of the free ones out there and haven't liked any. The chances are you already have photoshop so use that, iStopmotion is a little expensive but if you're making Stop Frame animations from real models it's very good.

 

[Velin]

If you need something really simple and only in 2D, you could try Pencil. I haven't tried it with my 2009 Macs, but it does meet two of your criteria: simple and free. If you have particularized export file requirements, I'd check first to see if it can render what you need.

PS I don't consider Final Cut to be simple. If you need a prosumer-level software package, most of the opensource or free stuff is going to seriously disappoint you.

 

[Rhodan]

Thanks for the replies.

Sorry I didn't quite realize what Final Cut was actually used for. That's probably way more than what's needed.

I'll check out the ones you guys have mentioned. Anything else I could look at?