Wizaerd,

Are you saying you don't use ASP at all...or you just don't use it to draw? If it's the latter, what program do you use to draw, which I'm then assuming you export into ASP to animate?

Neeters, ahhh gotchya. Characters drawn and animated in ASP. Background done in a paint program. Yeah, well, that's great advice. There's a lot out there to try. ASP, Toon Boom, and Flash as the big dog animation programs everyone talks about. Then you've got the free 2D software like GIMP, Pencil, ...

Neeters-guy, haha, actually that doesn't make too much sense to me. BUT, I'll come back and re-read your post a few months from now after I've actually used the programs. I really liked your desert island animation though. Super awesome. Cool to know that it's all drawn and animated in ASP. I'm assu...

Ronbo, thanks for the tip about the Wacom tablet. Yeah, I was definitely going that route. Good to know I'll have the "lite" versions of photoshop, sketchbook, and anime studio to play around with when I do. Slowtiger. I really liked your animations! I especially liked the "Me, myself...

Well I've looked through a lot of cartoons made in just TVPaint, and I've been super impressed. Can I ask why you use both? Why not just TVPaint? Slowtiger, In another forum you were actually a part of I read: "TVP is really good for hand drawn animation, there's no software that comes even clo...

CartoonMike...thanks for the additional programs to test out. But you're right, right now I'm focused on becoming a good cartoonist on paper (going through a few intro books right now)...and plan on reading through the Animator's Survival Kit and The Illusion of Life to get the basics of animation d...

Actually, scratch SAI Paint. I just realized I can't use it for Mac...which is what I use. So honestly, it sounds like the best route to go is, learn to draw my cartoons in ASP. It's best to create the cartoons in the program that I'll be animating them in. Plus, ASP drawing capabilities are pretty ...

Heyvern and CartoonMike, I sincerely appreciate the additional advice. Ok, so it sounds like while the drawing capabilities in ASP might at first seem wonky (especially if you're used to drawing in a different program), they actually make more sense when you learn the WHY and HOW of using them. Ok, ...

Ahhh got it...thanks again Slowtiger!!

Thanks for the tip on TB InfoCentral...maybe I'll stay away from it from now. SlowTiger, along with GIMP and Photoshop...do you know if Corel Painter and SAI Paint are bitmap based software that's easily compatible with ASP? I've read great things about those two programs for drawing/painting backgr...

WOW! Thanks for the amazing amount of information. My only concern with drawing in Anime Studio is that I read that the drawing tools weren't that great/intuitive when compared to Photoshop, Manga, or even Toon Boom. But it sounds like Manga isn't really compatible with ASP. Good to know. I definite...

So I'm venturing into the cartooning and animation field because of a personal passion, and have actually been learning the basics of drawing on good old pencil and paper for the past few months. But I'm starting to look into drawing programs to be used with a tablet, and after a ton of research, I ...