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Hi -
I'm a cartoonist - line drawings and such - just got AS5 and desperately need other folks to share almost step-by-steps regarding my specific first characters - ifind the instructions very lacking and looking for advice. books? classes? videos? HELP!!! thanx

Welcome to the forums!

First thing to do is to work through ALL the tutorials in the online help file. No other process or advice is as helpful, and after you've done this you'll have the answers to a lot of your questions.

After that you'll want to look at how folks have rigged specific characters -- there is some good content provided in the AS version you have, but you should also download the demo for the new AS 6 which contains a whole lot more content to examine (eventually you will want to upgrade to the new version anyway).

There is a book on AS you may want to get -- it's the only one offered by anyone and it's sold by Amazon so you can just do a search there. It's definitely worth having.

Finally you can ask as many questions as you'd like here about specifics -- no one here is shy about answering -- as well as search some of the invaluable threads in the database. There is a goldmine of info here even if accessing it isn't as straightforward as other sources.

(And I'll even put a plug in for my website -- not much now but it will get better: www.kelleytoons.com ).

About the Tutorials

I have AS5 and something in the tutorial
does not seem to jive with the screens I have

1. File --> Rendering does not seem to be available
2. I don't seem to have 'Styles'

I have the cheap version [Anime Studio 5]
and thought I should work with it until I got decent
then move up to the AS Pro.

Question: Does AS 5.6 have these menus? Is that a free Upgrade?

Omen River
I figured this could be the newbie thread . . rather than starting a new one.

The Pro version has those things -- you don't.

Styles are okay -- I could live without them -- but features like Actions in the Pro version are worth the price of admission alone. But in the meantime you can do a whole lot of things with the version you have. Just save up your money and by the time you have the price we may be looking at version 7.0 (and that ought to *really* be something).

Do the tutorials. Get into the mind set that this is new to me and it doesn't work like other animation or drawing programs.

Dale