Mar
3
2009
FWAK Launches Fantastic ToonBoom-Bastic
FWAK! Animation’s Eddie Mort and Lili Chin, the amazing duo who created ¡Mucha Lucha!. and the Flash-feature Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre, have started a great new blog – TOONBOOM-BASTIC. It’s all about the new Toon Boom software Animate, which launched late last year. You’ll see the twosome building shots, displaying software features and discussing their opinions on Animate, as well as Storyboard Pro. Here’s a video illustrating a cool trick with the Z-axis that helps create simple depth to a character.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:20 am
nice! i just made the leap into toonboom animate myself last week, and i’m still learning it. i will certainly be keeping an eye on their new blog.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
It’s so much easier to do the same thing in Anime Studio Pro, which costs @200.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This looks really complex. Why would you need a graph chart just to bring an object in front or behind another object? Soon enough it’s going to be faster, easier, and cheaper to animate with a pencil and paper again.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Looks a little complex for such a minute detail, I will stick with Flash for now.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Truth is you don’t need it – it’s just an added feature that’s there if you want to use it.
Animate is as complex – or as simple – as you want to make it.
Personally, after over 10 years of working in Flash I am enjoying working with software that does all the things Flash does and more
March 7th, 2009 at 12:25 am
TOdd – I think the graph chart would be useful if you want to inbetween something that goes “around” something else (from behind to in front. I think you might also be able control easing in and easing out.