Australia’s Adam Phillips (Brackenwood series) recently teamed up with writer/voice actor Ryan Miller on a new short for Wizards of the Coast. It’s titled Lady of Pain (referencing the D&D character), and in this short our host Mike tries to win her cold hand in a skill challenge. Phillips used Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Animate Pro.

Depending on where you sit, the US economy is either rebounding or falling deeper into the void. For the real truth, Google it. That’s the conceict of the latest Ted Rall cartoon, titled Googling While America Burns. David Essman animated this piece with Toon Boom.

One of the things that stood out for me when I first learned my way around Toon Boom Animate was the color palette. It’s got intelligent color management that allows you to pair a color with an object – the equivalent of saying pants=blue. Down the road, if you want to change those pants to green, and on multiple drawings, it’s as easy as shifting that color — once. While Flash obviously has its advantages too, it faulters in this regard, as you can see in this video below:

For the Australian mockumentary TV series Kenny’s World, Bernard Derriman was called upon to create a number of interstitial animated segments. His weapon of choice on this project was Toon Boom, and Derriman brought on his friend and countryman Adam Phillips to help with effects animation and backgrounds. A half-dozen of these are over on YouTube, and below are two of my favorites:

Kenny’s World – Bears

Kenny’s World – Japan

While elections in the US are far from perfect, I think Ted Rall’s comparison to the recent shenanigans in Iran are a bit of a stretch. As in the past, David Essman elected to use Toon Boom in the production of this short, titled America Decides 2000. What do you think?