ANIM

File Format
Name	ANIM
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics ANIM
Extension(s)	.anim, .sndanim, others
Wikidata ID	Q4652973
Released	1988

Distinct from DeluxePaint Animation (Anim or ANM) files.

ANIM is an animated raster graphics format that was widely used on Amiga computers.

It uses the IFF container format. The first frame is usually (more or less) in the form of an embedded ILBM file. The other frames use one of a number of available schemes for storing the differences from a previous frame.

There is at least one extension to add audio to an ANIM file: Refer to AnimFX's documentation of the SXHD and SBDY chunks.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 'F' 'O' 'R' 'M' ?? ?? ?? ?? 'A' 'N' 'I' 'M'.

Specifications

• ANIM IFF CEL Animations, from the AmigaOS Documentation Wiki
• http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/anim7.txt
• IFF.TXT - Section named "Cel animation form"
• AnimFX → ANIM.guide

Software

• iffanimplay
• AnimPlayer
• XAnim
• cvtmovie - ANIM-J information and extractor

Sample files

• http://aminet.net/pix/anim

Links

• Wikipedia article