Does anyone know of a good program to use that will let me overlay two identical animations (same dimensions, frames, delays, etc)? Like I want to overlay some equipment pieces onto a character model. The individual animations look something like this: http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/736/axeswingil3.gif and I need to overlay them and also be able to easily cut out the black background, for a result something like this: http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6362/axeshitxb0.gif I know it can be done in Photoshop or Imageready (I'm currently using a combination of Photoshop and Animation Shop for my animations), but I'm hoping there's a program which will allow me to do this for the entire animation, rather than doing each frame at a time. Cheers, Jonathan

There's ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) a free command line based image processing tool. You could write a script or batch to utilize this tool to do blending, resizing etc.
For an processing/build tool take a look at ant (http://ant.apache.org/).

Good luck.

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Ashaman

Now that sounds really interesting :)

I need to do a lot of batch processing anyway so I'll definitely be looking into that.

Cheers!