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''Animator'' was debuted at [[SIGGRAPH]] 1989,<ref>[http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/tree/ani-software.html Animation Software Companies and Individuals] ''"At the 1989 SIGGRAPH in Boston, Autodesk unveiled a new PC based animation package called Autodesk Animator."'' by Wayne Carlson on [[Ohio State University]]</ref> featuring a VGA [[graphics mode]] of [[Mode 13h|320×200]] pixels with [[256 colors]].
In July 1991, the successor '''Animator Pro''' was released, with the significant improvement of allowing almost any resolution and [[color depth]]. The software was sold for approx. $800, significantly more expensive than the previous version, addressing the professional audience.<ref name="mussy"/><ref>[https://books.google.
The 1995 released '''Animator Studio''' was a complete re-write for [[Windows 95]], but was not anymore developed by the Yost Group.
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== Reception ==
Animator was considered to be groundbreaking in the field of [[computer animation]] when it was initially released, and was very popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In the debut year 1989 Animator won [[PC Magazine]]'s ''6th Annual Technical Excellence Award for Graphics''.<ref>[
Also [[video game developer]]s used the software for intros and other animated sequences in their games, for instance [[Formula One Grand Prix (video game)|Formula One Grand Prix]] (1991, [[MicroProse]]) and [[Cannon Fodder (video game)|Cannon Fodder]] (1993, [[Virgin Interactive]]).
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Animator Studio attempted to do more than previous versions of the program, yet it had limited success. It also lost the ergonomic fluidity that the DOS versions had. Animator Pro, though, was by far the most useful, and was exceptionally fast compared with today's animation programs.
The program worked so well and had enough of an impact, that it convinced [[James Cameron]] that [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] could create a character in his next film, ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]''; Autodesk did advertisement with this.<ref>[https://books.google.
There were also books written about Animator for instance "Inside Autodesk Animator: The Complete Guide to Animation on a PC" by [[New Riders Publishing]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=New Riders Publishing|ISBN=9780934035767 |title=Inside Autodesk Animator: The Complete Guide to Animation on a PC |year=1990 |issue=first}}</ref>
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