ArtRage 2.5 + Anime Studio Pro 7 Test

Just a test using ArtRage and Anime Studio Pro. I have to make a short cartoon and those 2 tools look like the perfect match for my lack of skill in drawing and painting.
Anime Studio's drawings look too dull for my taste, plain colors and gradients aren't my thing but ArtRage tools are really amazing and simple. I just have to find pic of what I need, trace over it and paint.

I just added a bit of white diffusion, vignette, soft edges and film grain (bad idea, it looks more like macroblocks than film grain in the end) in Magic Bullet Looks to try to look less like a Flash animation.
The smoke looks doesn't look enough "paper" in the end, it looked much closer to what I wanted before rendering.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• anime studio pro
• artrage
• cartoon

[olesyapetrova]

how long did it take to render this animation? I also try to work in ArtRage 3 + ASP....

[Babook]

@olesyapetrova It was loooooong as hell! I think the final video took something like 7 hours ton render on my Q5500

[Babook]

Yes, ASP does everything by itself, that's the beauty of it. You just have to add bones to your drawing. Setting up the bones (position, size, strength and constraints if needed) is important.

[Babook]

I exported my ArtRage files as .PSD, merged the layers I needed in photoshop (I think you can do that in ArtRage) and imported the resulting layer in ASP. You don't need to vedtorize anything, ASP can work with bitmaps too.

[BongoxFury]

This would make a great opening to a story.

[ruscular]

just saw that there is a plug in for bringing in PSD file as separate layer into ASP7

so the bone wont effect the other layer.

[alejandro35xxx]

nice

[ralfkhayal]

Excellent,can you show us a short tutorial on how you did this.?

[TheAnim8torz]

Is it hard making animation????

[clubdemer]

Excellent! Thanks for all the information. It seems like a killer combo. Your animation is inspiring! Love to see more...

[clubdemer]

Hit return to soon... I am still not sure how the tree got animated. It looks like it was drawn in artrage but moves like it was drawn as vectors in Anime Pro. Are you saying that all you had to do was import the tree as a bitmap and the ability to move its branches was automatically provided for you? That would be exactly what I want!