what software is like animation shop 3?
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3D studio max?... is old ha! or Poser
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Tales Animator\nTales Animator is a rather unique tool to create custom cartoon animations in AVI format. It does not require any graphical talent to get started.\nhttp://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Tales_Animator/talesanimator.html\n\nIt's free.\n\nMichael\nhttp://www.webmasterautomation.com/blog/
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Another option is OpenOffice. It's much like StarOffice like the person up there offered. OpenOffice is a suite like Microsoft Office that is open source and completely free and one of the programs is called 'Impress' and let's you create slide shows and save them in PowerPoint format.\n\nAlso a correction to the guy above: StarOffice is not free, it  costs $70. OpenOffice is free.
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I haven't used it yet but here is the link to get some free 3D software.\n\nhttp://www.anim8or.com
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best program is 'Nero', it's the easiest i have ever used. then u can try also 'Dr. divx', which is not bad but as it's named... working the best on 'quick time show' files converting and divx.
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i prefer jasc animation shop, but it cost's money. you can download a free trial off the jasc website but it only last's for a month. \n\ni have a friend that uses phuzeon animator and likes it so if jasc's not for you you can try that.
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ImageReady from Adobe.\n\nGIF Animator is also a nice animation creation software.
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I use Ulead Video Studio it is pretty user friendly so It is easy to use.  It comes with some effects and is fairly cheap. It even comes with catchy music to add to your movies.
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check out,  http://www.animationlibrary.com/
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here's a list of many:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=avi%20to%20jpeg\n\n\ni personally use bink & smacker by radtools:\nhttp://www.radgametools.com/smkdown.htm
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The software in the link below looks pretty cool.  Let me know if it works.  :)
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Depending on your current level of experience, an excellent and free piece of software, www.blender3d.org for 3-D modeling and animating.  Otherwise you will find that "the best" software also translates to the "most expensive," often starting at about $1500 USD.\n\nI have concluded by the way your question was phrased that you have no experience in this field.  Thus you might try Blender3D and its free plug-ins and documentation to start.  It won't be easy to learn, generally speaking, but it's very much like other 3-D modeling and animation products but doesn't carry the phat price tag.
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I would go with the adobe solutions, you can use Adobe Premier to do rhe video stuff, its easy to use still very profecional, you can actually do the slide show thing as well. Now to do the menu thing you'll need another program from adobe Encore DVD it has excelent features and easy to use.\nIm talkin about almost profesional stuff here, but no worries its pretty simple to use. YOu can buy the hole package Adobe Production Studio, standard edition include:\n-Adobe After Effects.\n-Adobe Premier (video editing you can also do the lide show thing)\n-Adobe Photoshop\n-Adobe Audition (Audio editing)\n-Adobe Encore \nAdobe Illustrator.\n\nYou can also use Macromedia Flash 8 for the slide show.
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You could use a program like Adobe Flash MX to create a Flash animation. (http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/)\n\nThat's simpler than if you wanted more complex animations enabled by 3D modelers and such (see http://www.blender.org for a free 3d animation program).\n\nOr if your target is the web then along with flash you might consider javascript: http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+animation&num=200&btnG=Go
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For 3D Animation:\n* Blender ( http://www.blender3d.org/ ) - a little difficult to master, but the best\n* Art of Illusion ( http://www.artofillusion.org/ )\n* Clay3D ( http://www.clay3d.org/wiki/Main_Page )\n\nFor 2D Animation\n* KToon ( http://ktoon.toonka.com/ currently available only for Linux and other Unix-like systems)\n\nUIRA ( http://www.uira.org/ ) is a project to create an open-source alternative to Macromedia Flash -- the version available is 0.0.1 beta and is not suitable for doing anything serious. But in future, it might be the best one.
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I feel there are two great freeware options for creating photo slide shows with music.\n\nMicrosoft Photo Story 3 \nFree download for "genuine" Win XP. I know it's MS, but it is a great program for making picture slide show (I don't think it can handle video clips). It is incredibly easy to use, has nice features like being able to add background music and record narration and title clips. It has output settings for NTSC DVD, but appears to only output wmv file format.\n\nSlideshow Movie Maker \nAnother free tool. Not quite as user-friend as PS3, but much more customizable for transitions, allows for importing AVI video clips, and exports as AVI video.\n\nI have used both with good results, but I tend to go to Photo Story 3 if I am a hurry and just want to get it done and if I will be using any background narration.\n\nLinks for the programs below.
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1- Adobe Premier,\n2- Pinnacle Studio 8\n3- Adobe Encore DVD (not yet tried)