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**Aggression** · February 6th, 07:02 PM

What program do the illustrators of Penny Arcade and other sites use?

Alpha · February 6th, 07:36 PM

Dude, any designer who is a designer uses photoshop.

**No1TubaPlayer** · February 6th, 07:41 PM

any designer that is poor uses pirated photoshop

(hinthint)

**Pyropenguin** · February 6th, 07:55 PM

You mean for the site or for the games?

The games/videos are all made in Macromedia Flash, the website was probably done in Dreamweaver//fireworks or something of the like.

~Kyle

**Aggression** · February 6th, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpha

Dude, any designer who is a designer uses photoshop.

Not sure if they use photoshop for those comic strips though. I thought there was a seperate animation program.

**massballer2k5** · February 6th, 09:28 PM

animation is done in flash... online games are usually done in flash or shockwave

**JG.** · February 6th, 09:33 PM

paint is where its been, going, and at.

**Ja289** · February 6th, 09:58 PM

they definetely do NOT use paint. they probably use photoshop and illustrator for designing, and Macromedia Flash and Fireworks for animation as someone said before. thought, flash is not like photoshop, its confusing to learn on your own. i tried learning it, but stopped and now the web design class im taking, we're learning flash so im hoping ill learn enough to make one of those flash cartoons you see online.

Alpha · February 6th, 10:10 PM

You can animate with imageready.

**Huey69** · February 6th, 10:12 PM

When using imageready for animations, they become very choppy and you need more frames etc. With flash, it is much more fluent and much faster to animate things.

Alpha · February 7th, 05:39 AM

Yes, but I don tthink you can create gifs with any macromedia program. I could tell you right away if I went to the website but I'm too lazy.

**Ja289** · February 7th, 05:43 AM

you dont use imageready to animate.. the animations you see at like newgrounds, pennyarcade, etc., are all probably done using flash. imageready can animate .jpegs and still images, flash on the other hand you can animate completely. if you were interested in learning to animate, find a copy of flash on the internet (yeah the real version is expensive) and get like a 'Flash for Dummies' kind of book.

**JG.** · February 7th, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ja289

they definetely do NOT use paint.

I'ma start using the sarcasm tag.

**Aggression** · February 7th, 07:28 AM

Im looking to animate just like in Penny Arcade. So whould I use imageready?

**MrMacDude** · February 7th, 07:29 AM

Photoshop, Illustrator, and they use their fingers. version 4.2, i think. Pencils, too.

**massballer2k5** · February 7th, 01:35 PM

Alpha - In flash you can export your work into gifs.. Just goto export movie -> and export it as a gif image/animation..

**Ja289** · February 7th, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Aggression

Im looking to animate just like in Penny Arcade. So whould I use imageready?

use flash, but its not a simple thing to learn like photoshop.

**massballer2k5** · February 7th, 03:26 PM

yeah I know a bit of flash. Ive made a few short cartoons using motiontweening and keyframing... i dont know a bit of actionscript though

**PaintballRemix** · February 7th, 03:28 PM

I'm not exactly sure what Penny Arcade is (brain fart?), but if i was a cartoonist online i would use Adobe Illustrator for the making the cartoons and everything. If its animated i would use Flash.

**Huey69** · February 7th, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpha

Yes, but I don tthink you can create gifs with any macromedia program. I could tell you right away if I went to the website but I'm too lazy.

You know little of macromedia programs.