# Animation software

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [November 9, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045 "2003-11-09T21:05:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Laslett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Laslett](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Laslett)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/1 "2003-11-09T21:05:21Z")

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I want a real simple shadow (black) of a man and / or woman crawling. whats the best software to create this in?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/2 "2003-11-09T21:42:23Z")

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it depends on what you plan to use it on web or TV id suggest using a vector image for the shadow since it just is one color and you can scale it without quality loss, so you can use anything that works with vectors like flash

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/3 "2003-11-10T00:02:42Z")

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well I want to eventually bring it into flash but was wanting something that would guide the movement of the body crawling I thought there may be something like poser that would help

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/4 "2003-11-10T01:13:48Z")

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well if you’re actually trying to get a real image of it, why not just get a recorder and record some footage of the person crawling?

i guess you could animate it in some software, but it sounds harder to me

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/5 "2003-11-10T04:32:49Z")

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flix or AE (after effects)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/6 "2003-11-10T14:28:11Z")

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In Poser Pro that would be pretty simple to accomplish. Poser allows you to export as a .swf as well…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/7 "2003-11-10T14:34:35Z")

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Reeaaaallllllllyyyyyy

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/8 "2003-11-10T15:32:37Z")

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you could take a video, change the image to a vector shape (flash feature), change all the colors to black and your set. 🙂

Grim I am still laughing @ that sig of yours. 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/9 "2003-11-10T18:16:39Z")

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No, Laslett I was kidding…:bad:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animation-software/35045/10 "2003-11-12T09:27:01Z")

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\*\*\*\* and I just went out and bought poser. I say bought I’m conviently trialing it on behalf of the company!