Comments on: A Few Friday Toon Boom Shorts

By: Corey McDaniel

Corey McDaniel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:40:50 +0000

Thanks for showing my student film!

I’ve been using Toonboom professionally since graduating VFS. There are pros and cons to every software. Definately more pros than cons on this one.

By: Patach

Patach — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:25:24 +0000

Toon Boom sounds amazing, but its price is way too steep. I can buy two Adobe CS3 Film Production suites for the price of that.

Frankly the missing IK Handles and the camera functionality I can live without in Flash, but it’s those beautiful textured brushes that I really want. Hopefully Adobe wises up a bit and adds at least some of these well needed features. It does seem like they’re starting to listen though, what with the announcement that a future version would carry alot of features for animators.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:14:42 +0000

Yeah, it was paper first. But since it was rough animation that I scanned, I had to work the drawing a bit in Toon Boom, so I could color them with the software after. Toon Boom transforms the scanned drawing into vectorised drawing, so it’s a lot easier to do so.

By: Davey

Davey — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:30:17 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXGO8dvDmIQ

Christine –

Your film looks really beautiful. Did you use ToonBoom to draw directly into the program with a Wacom tablet or did you animate on paper first and then scan the drawings in to ToonBoom ?

By: Paco Perez

Paco Perez — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:53:40 +0000

$$$ too bad the program is so expensive. Who can afford the cost plus upkeep with the tiny budgets out there today?

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:42:58 +0000

I used Toon Bomm for my project at college too. They have a fully fonctionnal FX bank to use. Which is great, cuz sometimes I have a hard time with Flash 8 or CS 3 FX.

For my part, I tried something more sketchy like, and even though it’s a numerical medium, it works pretty well.

Here if you want to have a look: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXGO8dvDmIQ

By: C.S. Murphy

C.S. Murphy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:38:22 +0000

Sorry for the double posting, but I have a question that involves scene planning that this guy was doing at the beginning of this video.

What resolution and document size are required to pull off a scene like this?

That sky layer was huge! :O

By: C.S. Murphy

C.S. Murphy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:29:24 +0000

That scene planning section was fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

By: Davey

Davey — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:39:14 +0000

The $2,999.99 price tag is the only thing that puts me off TB Digital Pro for now. I’m really glad that ToonBoom made a free Personal Learner’s Edition available to try out the software . I liked using it a lot (my fave of all the vector apps) , but I can’t see purchasing an individual license for myself unless the price comes down significantly .

Willie Moore, Toonz and CTP are still kicking around. I think that AXA morphed into Digicel Flipbook.

By: willie Moore

willie Moore — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:34:06 +0000

it is whatever software you can use to get the production you want.
dont let the software control you, you control the software. as an old school film aniamtor i wish i could have been able to use this in college. vector animation has made a big difference.
some of you will never experience painting 100′s of cels on the carpet studio in college for a 2minute animated film.
what happened to toonz, AXA, and CTP?
just keep animating!