Animated drawings in Corel Painter
Corel Painter is becoming my favorite drawing program for animation. Not only does it have all of the realistic brushes that you’d ever need, it includes a movie editing mode that lets you paint animation frame by frame. It doesn’t include any features for keyframing like you would find in animation software but it does give you everything that you would need if you wanted to sit down with a stack of paper and a pencil and create a flip-book style of animation. There is an onion-skinning mode that let’s you see through the paper to the previous couple of frames so that you can judge the timing. Here’s a sample that I created in about 20 minutes …
