Autodesk Inc, Sausalito, California has diversified into the desktop video market with an MS-DOS animation and paint program at $300: Autodesk Animator provides users with a tool for developing animated presentations for sales, marketing, training and industrial video applications, and includes five types of professional animation techniques – image processing, 572 true-colour paint effects, an intuitive mouse interface and hardware connection to video-in-video-out capability; it needs an 80286 or 80386 machine with Video Graphics Array and a pointing device.
