Drawing animation with Pencil
July 23rd, 2009 by admin
Pencil is free software to drawing hand-drawn animation. There are four types layers to help you : camera, vector graphics, sound and bitmap. If you don’t want use one of this layer, you can removed layer in this program.
It have simple drawing program if you want use pencil as standard design tool, for example unlimited canvas, brush, pen and paint bucket. For easily working, this software have options palette which lets user pick a color size of each tool.
When creating animation you select vector image layer then you can enlarge your drawing without any aliasing effect. Pencil allow you import existing animation drawing on real paper into this program.And the support if you want also copy and/or paste images from another applications such as photoshop or Paint.net
Pencil is animation software for free that can get on pencil-animation.org. I commonly use this program to drawing my own animation. It will saves your animation in an SML format with a folder containing a bitmap data.