Animator PIC/CEL

Animator PIC/CEL refers to a raster graphics format associated with the original Autodesk Animator animation software for DOS. The same file format is used for both .PIC and .CEL files.

Note that the successor to Animator, Animator Pro, also used .PIC and .CEL files, but the formats are different. PIC files use Animator Pro PIC format, and CEL files use FLC format. It seems there are also versions of Animator [Pro] that use GIF as their "PIC" format.

Identification
Files start with bytes.

Specifications

 * Animator Pro File Formats, "PIC - Picture Files" and "Original Animator PIC Files" sections
 * Information from FileFormat.Info and Corion.net

Software

 * → AnimatorAKA.zip - Animator A.K.A. v1.02 (DOS software) - At least uses this format for .CEL files.
 * Open source Animator Pro A.K.A. - Seems to support the format in some way; see "pic_header" in src/V/fli.h.
 * Image Alchemy

Links

 * Autodesk Animator