Anime Studio™ Pro Linux Now Available

E-Frontier have announced the porting of their Anime Studio Pro to the Linux platform. The Mac and Windows versions of the software has been used by professionals for a range of adverts and short films.



Because there are many distributions of Linux it is difficult for E-Frontier to test with all of them, however there are many versions listed on their website and you can download the software to test it on your platform before buying it. The cut down Anime Studio version is not yet available.

So far, Anime Studio has been checked on the following systems: Ubuntu; Red Hat 8, 9; Fedora Core 1, 2; SuSe 8.2; Mandrake 9.0, 9.1, 10; Gentoo; Debian SID; and Knoppix.

Linux and Stop Motion

I was reading an article about the French amateur programmer Michel Xhaard and how he'd written over three hundred drivers for Webcams, this got me thinking what software might be available to help with animation on Linux workstations.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39291

There's quite a few bits of software available but I'm not sure how many of them fit in with the above drivers.

Stop Motion
http://stopmotion.bjoernen.com/

StopMojo
http://www.mondobeyondo.com/projects/stopmojo/

MotionMage
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tomfoote3/BIM/id155.htm

Frameworks
http://polycrystal.org/frameworks/


See also previous article on Multimedia Linux.

Multimedia Linux - Ubuntu Studio

http://ubuntustudio.org/

"Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment.

The team currently plans to contain the following applications:

Cinelerra - Video Editing

Soma - Audio

Jahshaka - Animation, Keying, Effects

This seems like an excellent idea, we will see in a few months how successful it is.