Deluxe Paint Animation

DeluxePaint Animation

Deluxe Paint Animation Box Cover
Developer(s)	Electronic Arts
Stable release	1.0 / 1990
Operating system	MS-DOS
Type	Bitmap graphics editor
License	Proprietary

DeluxePaint Animation is a 1990 graphics editor and animation creation package for MS-DOS, based on the Commodore Amiga's Deluxe Paint. It was adaptapted by Brent Iverson with additional animation features by Steve Shaw and released by Electronic Arts.^[1][2]

The program required a VGA 320x200x256 colors display, MS-DOS 2.1 or higher and a mouse.^[3][4]

Features

Listed from the back of the box.

• Complete selection of painting tools — Draw any shape you want, any way you want.
• Turn any image into a brush. You can rotate, flip, shear, resize, smear, and shade it.
• 7 levels of magnification — Paint in magnified mode if you want. Use variable zoom for detailed editing at the pixel level.
• 3-D perspective — Move and rotate images in full 3-D, automatically.
• Use color cycling and gradient fills to create great special effects.
• Stencils — Protect your designs from the slip of the hand or a bad idea. A stencil masks your image so you can paint "behind" and "in front of" it.
• Use the handy Move Dialog to animate brushes in full 3-D — automatically! Ideal for creating spinning titles for low-cost videos.
• 37 multi-sized fonts^[5]

See also

• Deluxe Paint

References