ToomBoom no more!

[InfoCentral]

One realization I have come too is that Studios don't get "upgrade fever." The people I know that work for them all tell me the software they use a work is no where near current. A good example of what you can do without the latest release is A VERY SHORT WESTERN. Notice at the end when the credits roll that all the software used was several versions old. If it works why replace it.

[nadafarms]

I paid $499 for the upgrade from TBS Studio to Animate and it was worth it, the drawing tools are the best I've ever felt and I'll be using both together for sure.

TBS will never die, sorry. People thinking that AS6 will run them out is crazy...

TBS studio sucks though, Animate is where it is at.

[InfoCentral]

TBS studio sucks though, Animate is where it is at.

What's the big feature that Animate has that makes is so superior to Studio? The video "A Very Short Western" was done in Toon Boom Studio 3 and Flash MX 2004. I thought it looked great!

BTW, bones were introduced into Flash in CS4. I'm thinking that development is continuing both at Adobe as well as third parties. Probably by CS5-6 their should be enough improvement that it will resemble Anime Studio in functionality.

[rogermate]

I could do rotoscoping in AS a long time ago.

Dale

I'm probably missing something. I know you can import an image or a background video into ASPro - but are there any tools that would help you rotoscope?

I'm not familiar with how ToonBoom supports rotoscoping, but is there some other function, or user script, which makes rotoscoping easier?

[dueyftw]

Rotoscoping in any program is done frame by frame. Their is no press a button and its done. Bring you movie in and draw out lines. Move the points to so they match then next frame. The hardest is hair, because hair sometimes has no clear outline.

Toonboom just now has the ability to import movies and move them forward or backward frame by frame.

Dale