Autodesk Animator

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Screenshot of Autodesk Animator
Screenshot of Autodesk Animator

Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost group for Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max) and ran on a PC under MS-DOS. It was debuted at SIGGRAPH 1989, and won the PC Magazine 6th Annual Technical Excellence Award for Graphics that same year. It worked so well and had enough of an impact, that it convinced James Cameron that CGI could create a character in his next film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The program is no longer supported or being developed.

'Animator' ran in 320x200 pixels. 'Animator Pro' ran in almost any resolution. 'Animator Studio' was a re-write for Windows that attempted to do a lot more, with limited success. Animator Pro was by far the most useful, and was exceptionally fast compared with today's animation programs. It was one of the very few DOS programs that could use all the memory in your computer. Its combination of twenty tools multiplied by twenty inks, 3D 'optics,' unparalleled palette handling, custom scripts and many other useful features (such as its own internal scripting language POCO), put it years ahead of better known 'animation' tools of the time.

DOSBox (at least from version 0.63) runs Animator Pro quite nicely.

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