What is Pro Motion?
Pro Motion is a drawing and animation package for graphics. You can use it to create game graphics optimized for handhelds,
animated GIFs, icons, comics, logos, still images or clip-arts as well as to spruce up your
web-pages.
It is especially useful for creating game graphics and level maps for handheld
systems or to create light weight bitmaps for yor Flash based multimedia.
The wide range of powerful functions and tools will help you to create
high quality animations.
Professional artists will find useful tools like layering, helping to create smooth animations
(also known as onion skinning) or to work with multi layer graphics.
You can bring your ideas down to sketches easily. Pro Motion was designed
similar to the legendary Deluxe Paint which became very popular on the
Amiga computer systems. Thus it is the best solution for all people who
have been moving from Amiga to PC.
Numerous
supported file types will help you to work hand in hand with other graphics
software.
To give you a little overview, here are some features:
- animations with different delays between frames, ideal for
animated GIFs
- a layer engine that can be used to lay several images/animations
upon another to draw smooth animation steps (also known as onion skinning) or to
work with project layers
- alpha transparency or simple transparency based on a transparent color
- unlimited undo/redo
- anti aliasing
- load and save AnimStrips (BMP and PNG with animation frames)
- masking to prevent certain areas of being modified. You can draw your
mask with tools like circle, line, rectangle...
- drawing grid to display any box or shape forms like isometric grid
- powerful palette editor to copy/swap/move single colors or ranges, modify HSB/RGB, web color code
support
- animated brushes (use a brush which is an animation itself)
- a keyframer, which helps you creating 3d-Animations based on a 2d-image
- special effects like mosaic, fade in/over/out, zoom or palette
animations
- 27 different painting methods like invert, smoothing, color cycling,
embossing, brighten, darken, smear, blend and more including optional ordered dithering. You
can even define own paint modes with mathematical formulas.
- different filling methods for color shading
- 2 dither methods to increase the virtual color depth
- brush container to work with different brushes at the same time
- dozens of drawing tools (lines, curves, polygons, spray can...)
- functions to create tile based textures (seamless tiles)
- full screen edit mode
- special functions to help creating graphics for handheld computers
such as Gamboy Color/Advance/DS Nitro (color tile mapping)
- built in tile map editor with live tile library creation and optimization
- brush manipulation (bend, shear, stretch...)
- a plugin-interface to expand prgram functions
- 24bit support via JPEG, BMP, TGA, PNG files or the Windows
Clipboard
- support for icons and animated cursors
- a simple file format for sprite graphics, ideal for game developers
- freeware plugins
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