.file extension FLC - AutoDesk FLIC format
File extension FLC description:
This is the format developed by AutoDesk that is designed for storing brief animations. It is a successor to FLI. FLC can store images of variable size, and allows a palette of 256 colors (although the palette can be changed from line to line to give more colors per frame). FLC supports a variable frame rate specified in frames a fixed frame rate specified in milliseconds per frame, and maintains information about the original aspect ratio. In theory, all FLC animations must loop, but in practice this requirement is often ignored. The image data in FLC files is compressed using a Run-length compression scheme. This is suitable for animations, but is inappropriate for videos or dithered images. As mentioned, the FLC format is a successor to (and close cousin of), the older FLI format.
Associated applications to file extension FLC:
Company / developer:
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max) and ran on a PC under MS-DOS.
The program was considered to be ground breaking in the field of computer animation when it was initially released and was very popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. eventually the development on the product ended and it became no longer supported by Autodesk.
Animator gave the ability to do cel animation (creating each frame as an individual picture, much like traditional Disney animation), "Animator Studio" also had tweening features (transforming one shape into another by letting the computer draw each in-between shape onto a separate frame).
While "Animator" and "Animator Pro" supported only the input and output of FLI and FLC animation files, "Animator Studio" supported also the input and output of the AVI animation format.