Anim8or Community

Same. Being here from the "good old days" in the early 2010s, I desperately miss the community we once had. I tried to make a Discord server but the kids these days ruined it. This is one of several different corners of the internet that has a special kind of hiraeth for me.

Despite how Anim8or hasn't seen an update in a long time, I've still found it incredibly useful and I try to find the most clever ways to make it do unconventional things. I've even used it a lot in my industry work.

Yes! I've tried it on Mint, Debian XFCE, and Debian KDE Plasma. It works nearly flawlessly with both Wine and Bottles. It will probably work with the Steam thing too but I prefer the old fashioned way.

The ONLY problem I've run into is that Wine has its own shortcut for Alt+Scroll which override's Anim8or's zoom-in while using the legacy arc rotate tool. I just have to learn how to change the hotkey settings in Wine, that's no fault of Anim8or.

But yes, I've ditched Windows 11 wherever possible. I still have to use it for work so I dual-boot, but when I'm off the clock, it's Linux now.

As the one who created the Discord server, I admit I haven't been as active as I should be. The truth is, when the server became overrun with kids, Baldi stuff, toxicity, and drama, I became severely disenchanted with it. I don't want to delete it because there's somewhat of a community of its own there, but it truly did not become what I hoped it would.

What was interesting was the server was practically dead for almost 5 years after I created it and then it suddenly exploded with Baldi fans, so I kinda owe it to them that the server is active at all, but it's nonetheless frustrating. I don't have anything against Baldi, but it's moreso this generation of children who are just insufferable when it comes to interpersonal drama. It's turned into a place I just genuinely don't want to be and half the time I'm literally afraid to open it and see what everyone is up to.

I wish there was some way I could just reboot the whole thing with the culture we originally had on these forums, and the creativity of people making their own creative works. I miss it dearly.

I had started a fresh Anim8or file, and tried to import the image as a Reference Image. I attached it below.

The one with the JPEG extension can't be found at all, and the one with the JPG extension is the one where I changed it to JPG by renaming the extension in Explorer. Trying to open this image file through the Reference Image menu causes Anim8or to crash.

However, if I open the image in Paint and save it as JPG, it opens in Anim8or without any problems.

I did a little research and discovered that apparently, there are a few differences between JPG and JPEG, namely that JPEG allows storing metadata which JPG does not. Perhaps this could cause some conflict in what Anim8or is expecting when it tries to read the file.

I call this one "Afloat". It's the simplest composition and was the quickest to make (besides creating my own background), but so far it's my favorite and I adore it.

These designs are now available as T-Shirts and other merch on my TeePublic store!
https://www.teepublic.com/user/sammyjstudios/albums/357313-vaporwave-series

I modified the last two designs to be a bit more dynamic since I hate slapping a square on a T-Shirt, so those two have the originals separately as Prints.

I still plan to make more and upload them as another wave in the future.

CoriDavis how much memory does Anim8or use when you're rendering the scenes?

When I use Multithreaded ART, it uses about 93-95% of the CPU. I attached a snapshot of my monitor during a render.

The image of Jesus with the pillars still had the issue whether or not it was multithreaded. It didn't even matter if it was ART or Scanline. It only goes up to 15% at the most when it's not multithreaded.

Image 1 is Multithreaded, Image 2 is Singlethreaded.