I’ve been recommending the animation software Toon Boom to a few friends lately, mainly because they asked about X-sheet timing, texture brushes or advanced camera functionality. Adam Phillips, the creator of the Brackenwood series, has already discovered the power of Toon Boom Digital Pro, and I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for other artists who have too.

Take a look at Grille Cheez, a 2-minute short by Mathieu Choquet, who produced this film in his final year at Cegep du Vieux Montreal.

And here is To Kill A Working Bird, a traditionally animated short produced at VFS about a homeless bird with a huge appetite. The short was created by Corey McDaniel, who was featured here back in 2007.

Lastly, if you haven’t used the software, have a look at the multiplane potential exhibited in this demonstration.

In the end, it’s the artist, not the software, that makes the difference, but knowing what options are out there can improve your creative execution.

Vancouver Film School’s animation program recently said goodbye to Pedro Eboli. But before he left, Eboli took 2 weeks to learn how to use Flash, and in the following 2 weeks he created this short below, titled A Pug’s Life. Congrats on graduating, Pedro!

Temris Ridge created this Flash-animated short, titled The Politics of Progress, over two weeks in August of this year. She’s a graduate of Vancouver Films School’s classical animation program, and is currently a freelance animator. More info at Termis’ blog.

Ian Milne’s first Flash film at Vancouver Film School was created in one month. You can see the ominous, 3-minute, untitled short below. Milne is studying Classical Animation at VFS, and you can see more of his work on his blog.

Valentine’s Day is months behind us, but I couldn’t resist posting Ran Kim’s short Happy Valentines Day, which was recently posted to YouTube. This short was created by Kim at Vancouver Film School. Is our candy friend in this short related to Vincent van Gogh?

Choom Lam, a student at the Vancouver Film School, recently created a highly-entertaining, Flash-animated short titled Bobble and Sqweek.

Todd Ramsay an Animation Director who has worked at several of the major Flash animation studios in Canada, recently released an original short titled Honkbarn!

Ramsay graduated from the Vancouver Film School in 2000, and has since worked on a variety of Flash-animated TV projects including Being Ian, Edgar and Ellen, Stroker and Hoop and Mucha Lucha.