cycling) and animations a favored technology in the time of indexed CGA and VGA graphics modes.

Unlike other DOS software from that time, Animator was not restricted by the 640 kilobyte conventional memory limitation as it utilized a DOS extender by Phar Lap. Animator's combination of twenty tools multiplied by twenty inks, 3D 'optics,' unparalleled palette handling, custom fonts and many other useful features (such as its own internal scripting language POCO), put it many years ahead of better known animation tools of the time.

Development history 
Animator originates back to its author's Jim Kent earlier program Cyber Paint for the Atari ST. Jim Kent evolved in 1989 his software into Animator for Gary Yost's "Yost Group" for 80286 PCs with MS-DOS. Animator was then licensed to Autodesk, who publishedalso
 FLI/FLC Animator's file format
 Deluxe Paint 
 List of 2D animation software

References

External links

 
 Animator (1989) Freeware download via GitHub
 Gallery with examples of Animator created animations

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