Artoonix 1.8.2

Rated 50/50 by Mohlar at Mar 11, 2008

"V1.6 even better than 1.5 ----- HIGHLY recommended." My previous detailed review of v1.5 still holds true, but with v1.6 comes the facility to input and manipulate text. The tool is more versatile than most (just as is the sound function). Text can be entered and, if needed, words or individual letters can be modified by changing font or size or both - all within one operation. If subsequent frames need the same text to be placed in the same position, there is the option to click on a bar and hey presto - it happens. Or, of course, you can save the text as a separate file and import it as an object. Both options are useful for titles or effects. In the next version, the Artoonix team hope to implement tweening. I heartly recommend this software to anyone who wants to explore and exsperiment with animation. If you search YouTube for 'Artoonix' you will find a growing range and variety of animations. There are a few minor niggles that I have flagged up in the 'Suggested Features' part of the forum, but on the whole, the software is remarkably light on major flaws.

Rated 50/50 by Mohlar at Apr 21, 2008

"V1.7 released and a BIG step forwards - but only if you register" At last, tweening has now been implemented in Artoonix. Although this isn't of the same vector-graphics type as found in, say, 'Anime Studio' , 'Tweenmaker' or 'Express Animator', it works very well, especially for the movement and rotation of objects along straight or curved paths. This saves a HUGE amount of time. When used as a way of morphing between diffent or altered shapes, a ghosting effect usually happens, but this can easily be turned to your advantage and isn't necessarily the problem that you might think it is. AND, of course, there is the inescapable fact that Artoonix offers an extremely powerful entry point into the world of traditional animation at very low cost indeed. Also, with v1.7, several tweaks and improvements have been made to the ways in which files can be selected and re-used (eg: the facility to now easily block-select .ipa files instead of having to check each image one by one). A few users seem to feel hard done by because tweening is only accessible to registered users of Artoonix - but this is surely a selfish and short-sighted view. The cost of registering is very low AND the developers did offer unregistered users the chance to register for v1.7 at a reduced cost for several weeks before it was actually released. This software is, after all, being developed as shareware and as such nobody can justifiably claim that all the most powerful functions should be given away free of charge. And tweening IS a really powerful function in Artoonix. There is increasingly little to dislike. The advent of tweening has really opened up the potential and power of this program. For me, the drawing tools fall short of true vector-style graphics, but once you become familiar with how they work, they aren't too much of a worry. The biggest and most noticeable weakness seems - for the moment - to be in the inexplicably low activity of the Artoonix forum. Judging by submissions into the A

Rated 40/50 by kritix11 at Jun 2, 2008

"pretty darn good" its the only flash/gif creator that lets you actually make the thing with simple painting and modifying that is "shareware" the liscense doesn't affect the features too much -the water mark output on the avi/swf files? -no tweening unless u register -1cant easily put the file out to avi without a swf converter

Rated 50/50 by jnshirom at Jan 21, 2009

"Awesome! Everything you need and no filler." The price is excellent. It is intuitive. It is excellent! None that I have found yet. Cheap, easy to use perfect.

Rated 40/50 by schoonerman at Mar 6, 2009

"easy to get started and see your work- so far, so good" easy to get started and see your work switching back and forth between 2 pages I'm just getting into this, so don't have more to say right now.