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egypturnashSeriously playing with Toon Boom with an eye to doing a personal project completely in it. So far I've gone through about half the tutorials.
Some things are great, like the fact that holding ctrl-apple in the drawing view pops up an iconic drawing disc for arbitrarily rotating the board around. This really says "Animators, we speak your language" to me.
Having a multiplane camera is great, too. I know how to fake it in Flash, but it's a pain to do; TB looks like it could make a deep scene a lot of fun to do.
Other things, I'm not so sure of.
The huge distinction between "drawing mode" and "scene-planning mode" will take some time to get used to.
Most importantly, it handles sound in a way very different from what I'm used to. I've come to really depend on being able to drop a sound in a layer in Flash, and very casually preview my animation in it by scrubbing back and forth, deciding to adjust the timing andor drawings very intuitively. Toon Boom doesn't really seem to be structured for this. It's got a way-cool auto lip-synch generator, but it's for really limited-animation synch.
It's very closely tied to traditional metaphors and methods, and this both helps and hurts it. I need to poke at the sound stuff some more; if I can figure out how to easily and effortlessly animate to sound and assign more than the seven generic mouth shapes, life will be good. It really feels like the sound methods are tied a little too closely to the traditional x-sheet metaphor, though. Great for bringing over grizzled vets of TV cartoons, not so great for me, when I've never bothered to embed the Standard A-F Mouths in my mind. And some poking around didn't find a way to easily use its lipsynch for more mouths.
It's still 10x better for actually animating bits and bobs in the computer, what with not intermittently ignoring my keystrokes and discarding all the nuance of my brushstrokes... but this is kind of a dealbreaker for me.
I also want to fuck around experimentally with the regrettably-named Anime Studio (formerly Moho), but their downloads are broken.
Some things are great, like the fact that holding ctrl-apple in the drawing view pops up an iconic drawing disc for arbitrarily rotating the board around. This really says "Animators, we speak your language" to me.
Having a multiplane camera is great, too. I know how to fake it in Flash, but it's a pain to do; TB looks like it could make a deep scene a lot of fun to do.
Other things, I'm not so sure of.
The huge distinction between "drawing mode" and "scene-planning mode" will take some time to get used to.
Most importantly, it handles sound in a way very different from what I'm used to. I've come to really depend on being able to drop a sound in a layer in Flash, and very casually preview my animation in it by scrubbing back and forth, deciding to adjust the timing andor drawings very intuitively. Toon Boom doesn't really seem to be structured for this. It's got a way-cool auto lip-synch generator, but it's for really limited-animation synch.
It's very closely tied to traditional metaphors and methods, and this both helps and hurts it. I need to poke at the sound stuff some more; if I can figure out how to easily and effortlessly animate to sound and assign more than the seven generic mouth shapes, life will be good. It really feels like the sound methods are tied a little too closely to the traditional x-sheet metaphor, though. Great for bringing over grizzled vets of TV cartoons, not so great for me, when I've never bothered to embed the Standard A-F Mouths in my mind. And some poking around didn't find a way to easily use its lipsynch for more mouths.
It's still 10x better for actually animating bits and bobs in the computer, what with not intermittently ignoring my keystrokes and discarding all the nuance of my brushstrokes... but this is kind of a dealbreaker for me.
I also want to fuck around experimentally with the regrettably-named Anime Studio (formerly Moho), but their downloads are broken.
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