Editing Autodesk Animator (section)

=== Releases ===
''Animator'' was debuted at [[SIGGRAPH]] 1989,<ref>[http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/tree/ani-software.html Animation Software Companies and Individuals] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219222707/http://excelsior.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~carlson/history/tree/ani-software.html |date=2016-12-19 }} ''"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 approximately US$800 (US$1,800 in 2025), significantly more expensive than the previous version, addressing the professional audience.<ref name="mussy"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hqQJaNzN9IcC&dq=%22autodesk+animator+pro%22&pg=PA452 PC Mag Aug. 1992]</ref>

The 1995 released '''Animator Studio''' was a complete re-write for [[Windows 95]], but was not anymore developed by the Yost Group.