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[Dataflashsabot]

The bone movement is the thing I like best about Construct. I'm a shit animator, and a 2D bone system makes all the difference to me. But I now want to use AGS again, and the thought of hand animating everything gives me a headache. Since Construct obviously has no way to export animations (sort of using Fraps or something), I need something else. Apparently Anime Studio has this, but that costs money, and quite a bit at that.

Basically, I'm looking for a standalone animation system that allows me to make a skeleton, attach images to each bone, animate it using keyframes, and export to individual images/strip/gif/whatever.

I just can't find anything suitable
Anyone know of anything appropriate?

[John Nesky]

Here's a related thread:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=11189.0
But it's a technique that I think deserves more attention so carry on.

EDIT: I'd like to add squash-and-stretch to the feature wishlist.

[Derakon]

You could probably adapt Blender to this. Just because it's a 3D modeler doesn't mean it can't work with 2D images. You just need to set the camera correctly and put your body part images onto textured quads. Clunky, but free, and it has good keyframing/stretch/squish/etc. capabilities.

[Chromanoid]

i once animated some 2d graphics by mapping them on a simple "two dimensional" 3d mesh. I used the mesh as "bones" and keyframe animated it... it worked ok. maybe you can do this technique with blender and render the results...
you could look at http://www.synfig.org (i think it has cut out animation support).