Animation Magazine is a monthly publication covering the animation industry, including aspects of film and television animation, visual effects and video games.

Founded in 1986 by Terry Thoren, the print magazine is published monthly and features articles on current animated movies, television series, anime, short animated films, visual effects, interactive titles and software releases from both major studios and independent producers. Editorial covers all forms of animation, including 2D, 3D and stop-motion, and profiles the artists behind the productions. Digital versions of the print editions were introduced in 2006.

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What is SWiSH Max2?
SWiSH Max2 is a powerful Flash authoring application. Flash is a multimedia format for playing animation, video and audio on the web, mobile devices and more. SWiSH Max2 enables you to create Flash movies in a simple timeline based authoring environment, dragging and dropping video, audio, effects, images and more to create stunning multimedia movies.

What can I do with it?
With SWiSH Max2 you can build anything from flash websites, animated menus, banner ads, text effects, presentations, cartoons, slideshows, applications to video productions.

KoolMoves takes an approach to Flash movie creation that is in tune with the animation process, because it was designed by a professional animator. It is a mature animation package with ease of use and power as guiding principles. To make animations in KoolMoves all the user has to do is draw or import shapes or images and then reposition, reshape, and recolor the animation objects in adjacent key frames to achieve the look you want. KoolMoves automatically morphs shapes in between each of the shapes you create to achieve smooth animated motion. It's like putting together a cartoon strip. Each frame contains text, images, shapes, sounds, and actions. For character animation, one frame would have the characters in one pose and in the next frame in another pose.

Features:
- Import SWFs as editable movies
- Import FLV Flash Videos
- 51 action script based text effects
- 100 stylish text effects templates
- 343 clip art items and buttons
- 20 web interface templates
- Transition, spin, rotate effects
- 4 skill levels (wizards to cartooning)