Thanks GCharb and Greenlaw, for the welcome and the encouragement, like any creative skill set it's just a long road isn't it? It's funny how my brain works. The surreal body reminded me of russion animator Ivan Maximov, whereas the parallel lines made me think of japanese animator Yōji Kuri I wasn'...

Meandered my way through drawing, simple bone rig and basic animation, but I'll get the hang of it. Thanks again for the help, slowtiger. http://www.sastudios.com/images/Swimmer.mov

As a working motion graphic designer, I considered my software options carefully in making a transition to character animation. I'm not interested in "hobbyist" quality and I don't have time to waste learning an incomplete or unnecessarily complex tool set. After trying to hammer out the l...

Thanks Nico, will do. Once it doesn't completely suck

Thanks a million slowtiger - this is very helpful, I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers!

Thanks Nico! I think I have a pretty good idea where ASP will fall in the scope of my projects, but I'm always open to surprises. Do members here cross-post to the Animator's Forum at kellytown.com?

Hey folks - I'm knocking my way through ASP for the first time. I've done several hours of general tutorials, I get the gist for starters and I'm ready to begin working on original ideas. I thought I'd toss this out here since I'm still in a heavy learning curve and potentially save myself hours of ...

Hey AS forum folks, Thought I'd say a quick hello and let you all know I'm not a forum-haunting bot! While I've been doing motion graphic work for quite a while and spend most of my professional days in the After Effects world, I'm just picking up Anime Studio and have some fairly ambitious plans I'...

If you have access to adobe after effects, you can generate a similar look using turbulent displace applied to rendered animation from ASP. It's a simple treatment and tutorials abound.