After one year with Anime Studio Pro

Kankuran · Post by **Kankuran** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:22 am

Hi!
I have been working with Anime Studio Pro for one year, it has taken quite a long time getting to know this program, but not compared to learning animation in Flash(: Now I feel quite confortable with what can be achieved and I am very lucky I chose Anime Studio as my animation tool, but as I really use node/point animation to a great extent, there was really only one option.
I would like to thank everyone for making this forum such a unique source of knowledge and hope it will remain so for a long time to come.

I just felt like charing two little things I made in Anime.
1) Captain Flame.
This was supposed to be a continuing episode of the super hero Captain Flame vs the evil Professor Flint. I was working at a post production company here in sweden were I developed this idea togeather with Nicola Smanio. But as I have left that job, this is the one and only 1 minute episode I guess you will see(:
The character animations where made in Anime, compositing in After Effects, Helicopter in Cinema 4D, Backrounds in Photoshop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUD4k_damk

The other one is just a quick camera move going into a forest, it is made as a intro for a commercial. I pushed Anime to the very edge in using multiple really high-res images, I hade to take away some of them as they when rendering showed up as broken images. Is is just about a couple of seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLubo3j4FSw

Again, thanks for all the help so far!

/Ola (It is a male name in Sweden)

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:23 am

Terrific stuff. It's a pity you have stopped with the first one -- excellent animation, characters and timing! Nice bit of humour too. Made me want to see more...

shoepie · Post by **shoepie** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:57 pm

Amazing stuff, I loved the animation on Captain Flame. You blended the 2D and 3D really well too.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:43 pm

I loved it.

Kankuran · Post by **Kankuran** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:04 am

jahnocli wrote:Terrific stuff. It's a pity you have stopped with the first one -- excellent animation, characters and timing! Nice bit of humour too. Made me want to see more...

Thanks!

Yes, it is a pity, I like Captain Flame too, I just don´t own the rights, thats a bad when you work in a company, so now I am starting up my own(:

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:26 am

Go for it! And good luck!

oferhod · Post by **oferhod** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:54 am

Great stuff! Really inspiring.
Good luck

donnie · Post by **donnie** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:30 am

Loved them both! Great stuff....

Good character animation in Captain Flame.

That intro you'd never guess was done in AS, looks very high-end. Was it completely produced in Anime Studio? (Compositing and everything?).

Well Done!

Kankuran · Post by **Kankuran** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:57 am

Hi there, and thanks!

One of the problems I have is lip-syncing, it is really hard. I am not too happy with the mouth movement of Flame, some bits of it work, but it does not feel right all along. Flint has better movements though.

Yes, the intro is all made in Anime Studio. I think there is about 30 really high-res images that makes up the scene, aswell as some videos and the parts of the troll. I think ASP did very well here.