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Question:you know how there are animated shows, about 20 minutes long per episode, such as Family Guy, The Simpsons etc. Well, i have a great animation idea in mind, and i want to create a 10 minute animation, in color, but i dont want to have to draw every single frame on ms paint. i would use pivot stickfigure animator, but that only does stick figures, but do you know of any FREE software i can download that will make a 10 minute animation like pivot does where you choose where the knee is, elbow is, and you just adjust those a bunch and soon youll get a movie. it would be kind of like the animation of the simpsons, only people are skin colored, thankk you (remember FREE)


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: you know how there are animated shows, about 20 minutes long per episode, such as Family Guy, The Simpsons etc. Well, i have a great animation idea in mind, and i want to create a 10 minute animation, in color, but i dont want to have to draw every single frame on ms paint. i would use pivot stickfigure animator, but that only does stick figures, but do you know of any FREE software i can download that will make a 10 minute animation like pivot does where you choose where the knee is, elbow is, and you just adjust those a bunch and soon youll get a movie. it would be kind of like the animation of the simpsons, only people are skin colored, thankk you (remember FREE)

ten minutes is a lot of frames, and you eventually may need a video editor to put sets of animation together as one,

you mention paint which you could use with gif animator, but not large files,
GIF Animator
http://www.jhepple.com/gif_animator.htm

you mentioned pivot stick man animator only,
http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/p...

Aniboom’s Shapeshifter flash based,
http://www.aniboom.com/ShapeshifterAnima...

CreaToon 3.0 to put images together for movie,
http://www.creatoon.com/
http://www.creatoon.com/samples.php

Gimp ~with layers export to gif,
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.h...

Synfig Animation Studio for making vector movies,
http://sourceforge.net/project/screensho...

Pencil animated sketches
http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil...

Blender3d animation
http://www.blender.org/

Anim8or Free 3D Animation Software
http://www.anim8or.com/

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There is no free lunches in the world my dear. Most animation softwares are expensive. And even if you find one free download from the internet, it could only be for 9, 15 or 30 days trial. Unless it is freeware or shareware.

Usually it is non-legal. Why not try to use a generator online or something? I'm sure there is something like that. There are so many generators nowadays...

If your animation can be done within the trials' deadline, then go ahead and download it from the internet.