Anyone know of some software that can do animation?
e.g.

Making it look like a cat or dog etc. is talking?

Are you talking about 3D animatins from scratch or just goofing around with some video and speeding it up, slowing it down, reversing it to match up with dialog?

Or you may be talking about drawing over top of video. Ulead Media Studio Pro 6 and up has a Video paint program that will let you draw on video, (good name for it huh) and is pretty damn good. The whole suite runs a few bucks, but like all else, it is out there on the internet for bad people. You can try out the demo of it as well. It has a learning curve and is not the easiest to master, but if you really take the time you should be happy with the results.

Another thing you could try is to key overtop of your video, but that would be a real pain to line up the movement, unless you also do a motion clip for the key. Then there is the alpha chanel... MSP will let you edit frame by frame.

Good luck, sounds like fun!

I Have tried Ulead...at leaste the Trial Media Pro 6.5, And Ulead Video Studio 4.I can't do anything with it. I am sorry but Ulead is less user friendly than MS DOS 7.

I have found if I Cut about two frames at a time in MGI Video Wave 5 and apply them to the story line, (You may need atleaste two or three or more and apply them to the storyline). You can do alittle bit of animation.

I made my cat laugh atleaste.

Also copy and paste the frames several times in the storyline to make for example the cats mouth open and close. Then add a laughing track from the content disk that comes with MGI Video Wave. I also edited the sound track with Cool Edit Pro to get it the right length and added it to the video clip and produced video.

I gave the cat a tiny little bit of peanut butter to get her to open her mouth and save only the frames that would work in my production. Please don't get carried away with the peanutbutter!

The Hermanator

Frame by frame, Teadious, that's like the old Godzilla Movies. Must have taken the whole year frame by frame.

For Several hundred thousand dollars I'm sure there's is stuff that the people who done the matrix etc could sell you.

The Bair

Anything just a little cheaper? I have tried Media Studio Pro Trial too and it is so limited I don't know if that is because it's a trial or what.

Not sure what kind of animation you want to do.

However, one way to make a pet talk is to use a morphing programme to add lip movements etc -

If you want to do that, hunt for a copy of ElasticReality.

Try Pinnacle Commotion paints straight on to video then add sound track /effects with cool edit pro both available on Kazaa/morpheus

I would recomend using Lightwave 7 for the straight animation task, and Magpie Pro for the lipsinc. I have done numerious animations with both and highly enjoy the results.

p.s. Magpie Pro is the same software that the creator's of the hit FOX tv series, The PJs, use.

An easy one that I have used Was "Ulead Cool 3D", it lets you impert a video file and let you paint over the frames and let you import objects...It took me 5 minutes to figure it out....