Besides After Effects to enhance Anime Studio I would also recommend Particle Illusion. Its a very powerful particle engine that is relatively cheap. Ahh so it really is possible to add extra effects and camerawork to anime studio, using after effects.... Well that certainly takes the pressure off,...

That can be done in AS. The people that made that last animation seem to have plenty of experience and probable took months/year to make. Oh no doubt, I'm not planning to be making this over the weekend :/ This is a long term project, I'm starting on much simpler ideas. But I dont want to spend a l...

http://vimeo.com/41010100 This video also shows similar panning effects, but using layers of 2D drawings for the landscape etc... I found it when looking for 2.5D examples so I guess thats what I am looking for! Think it was done using after effects? I already have CS6 Flash and After Effects, but I...

unless of course someone has advice on a different program I should use... but the 2D bones animating would be very handy

All the characters and things will all be drawn in 2D using vector drawings (not drawn in illustrator, but similar).

So I guess its more... 2.5D ?

Hey everyone, totally new to this forum so I'll start by saying hello to everyone! Ive read a lot of previous posts on here during all my recent research into animation software, so I know theres a lot of well informed people on here... and I'm hoping someone out there can help me out :) Basically I...