Mac or PC?
We don't really care about the "which OS is better" debate. Our question is specific to Toonboom animators.To Toonboomers who have worked on both MACs and PCs: Have you found any differences in...
View ArticlePainting with Texture, Drawing with Invisible strokes
Before vector animation hit the scene, back in the "traditional animation" days we created character color palettes in Animo (remember Animo?) We LOVE that there are character color palettes in...
View ArticleAssigning drawings to different layers, Drawing Substitution
Here is a short video showing a work in progress (also a learning process). I have just exported a scene from our STORYBOARD PRO animatic into ANIMATE. The sound track has been imported too, and the...
View ArticleKeyboard shortcuts and Sticky Keys
Sticky Keys! This is a cool timesaver tip that I learned from Eric K. Thanks, Eric!Some common ANIMATE Drawing Tool shortcuts:Brush - Alt + BContour Editor - Alt + ASelect - Alt + VCutter - Alt + TLine...
View ArticleROCQUITA: work in progress, notes on Layer organization
Sharing a capture of the ANIMATE workspace as I animate the characters in this scene.CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS BIGGERNotice that each character has their own single Master PEG layer on the main timeline....
View ArticleA quick look at Inverse Kinematics (I.K.)
This is a demo of what I.K. looks like in ANIMATE using one of our "Karaokean" characters. This mode of animation is useful for arms and legs or where joints play a big part in movement. It is almost...
View ArticleFlash vs Animate: PIVOTS
Pivots in ANIMATE are a little more complicated than they are in FLASH. In Flash, when you edit a Symbol pivot in order to reset a rotation/scale point, you enter the Symbol, select the pivot and drag...
View ArticleANIMATE Launch
This is where we will be:MEXICO CITY Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6 pm - 9 pm Museo Mexicano del Diseño (MUMEDI) Francisco I. Madero 74, Colonia Centro Historico Mexico D.F. BUENOS AIRES Friday, April 3,...
View ArticleAuto Lip Sync feature
I prefer to animate lip sync the "manual" way; I always scrub frame by frame and assign mouths this way. But having said this, ANIMATE's Auto Lip Sync feature is still pretty cool and can help save...
View ArticleMultiplane BG set up
This is a BG from our ROCQUITA pilot. Here Eddie demonstrates using the Top View to place different BG elements at varying the distances from the Camera. Sorry, this video cuts off before we could...
View ArticleSee you in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil
Details as posted here.We will be back in L.A. on April 8th to continue sharing our stuff on this blog!
View ArticleTrouble With Vista (by Eddie)
As anyone visiting this blog knows, I'm pretty much using Animate exclusively now - both for animation and design - and things have been going pretty good. However, having just bought a new laptop I've...
View ArticleAnimate Backgrounds
I am really liking the effects filters in Animate. Here are a couple of simple backgrounds drawn in animate that utilize the BLUR and GLOW effects
View ArticleMore on Animate Backgrounds
Here's a screengrab of my BG in the CAMERA VIEW before rendering; pretty crappy looking huh? Yep, no Annie awards for me... Here is the same BG in RENDER view, where you can see the actual effects on...
View ArticleAnimate and Text
While I really enjoy creating backgrounds in Animate, one inconvenience is the absence of text. For the background below I had to actually create the text in Flash and then import into Animate as a...
View ArticleCamera set-up & Motion Keyframes: What the manual doesn't tell you.
A little something we learned yesterday after one frustrating hour of trying to create a multiplane camera effect with this "Bostie Boys" scene.Bostie Boys scene (ToonBoom Animate) on Vimeo.As you can...
View ArticleReorganizing my Workspace for Character Design
ANIMATE comes with a few default workspace layouts but when I am designing or drawing a character using imported bitmaps or jpegs, the imported images only show up in Camera View, not the Drawing...
View ArticleAnother advantage of having Drawing & Camera views side by side
This is a sketch I'm doing just for fun. (The girls from UFO!) It's not finished... I took a screengrab.As you can see, I can zoom in and out in the Drawing View to do my details or to paint, and at...
View ArticleMore Bostie Boys Animation
Bostie Boys - scene 29A from Eddie Mort on Vimeo.Everything here was done in Animate, and is a good example how the blur filters and camera can really lift a scene. The mast and rope in the foreground...
View ArticleMore Multiplane
Finally getting the blur/pull focus effects happening in the timelineBostie Boys - Scene 3 from Eddie Mort on Vimeo.
View ArticleThe Invert Matte: My New Best Friend!
One great feature the Glow and Shadow effects in Animate possess, is the INVERT MATTE option. I've been using it in a couple of different ways...Frame with regular Glow effectThe same frame below, with...
View ArticleInvert Matte Step by Step
In response to Alex and Dee, here's the breakdown on how to apply the invert matte in the Glow FX to add an 'explosive' effect. Apply the following to your already existing scene set-upStep 1. Create a...
View ArticleAnother effect in Animate
Very simple - just changed the BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST valus over the timeline
View ArticleImporting swfs From Flash Into Animate
While it is great that Animate can import and work with swfs created in Flash, I've noticed that it is sometimes hit or miss; sometimes they import - sometimes they don't. I've just discovered a fix...
View ArticleANIMATE as a compositing program!
It didn't take long for Animate to become my animation program of choice. But recently I had the need to work in Flash once again due to the character reference I was provided being in .eps format. The...
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