My early experiments with Toon Boom Studio software. I have only begun to scratch the surface on this program, and I still try to sit down every now and then and fathom some of its rich complexities.
These are samples of longer animations (about a minute each), but they were nothing special. I like devloping characters more than animating them I think.
Compared to Anime Studio (the old Mojo ?) Toon Boom is easier to interface with-- very Windowy and intuitive-- but like I said I have yet to really get involved beyond simple lip sync and simple peg movement. But I have reservations that these programs are really NOT as super great in making fluid smooth animation as easy as they claim. I mean to really make things fluid one would have to do lots and lots of individual drawings, just like in the old days. Sure Toon Boom does some "tweening" and cut-out parts movements, but there is still a lot of pencil action required of the animator to make things magically "fluid"-- wish I had a better term-- non-stiff, living, alive with an inner glow?
My goal is avoid the redundant 2D look these programs produce (as evidenced by Toon Boom's own demos) and try to reach way out there and create something sublime-- 2d but looking better and not like anything before it. Big dreams. I'll probably never realize my goals, but I plan to have fun trying. I'm on a quest that has led me thru libraries of work and hours of cartoons. I love all the art students who post their demo reels, and I can tell these guys and gals have learned their stuff. Making me laugh over the animated antics of a flour sack is great. I wish I could leave my boring job and go to art school and learn all the great new things. Hell, the sculpted realities of 3d model animation (I can't think of a single program--what, Maya, maybe, mainly because everyone I look at was rocket science-complex and the real big ones run on mainframes) look like the wave of the future, but Buzz Lightyear and his ilk will probably never take over traditional 2d animation. After all its the story-- the art and technique are just conduits to convey the story in the end. Carry on students and fellow toon-philes. It is a wonderful age when on old guy like me who watched Saturday cartoons in the 60s and 70s can truly attempt to make some of his own little toons without a lot of fuss and bother.
I'm a big fan of Bill Plympton's work and would love to animate like him, but he draws each and every cel of the film by hand-- yikes! There are lots of art school videos that I favored and AniBoom has a nice channel here on YouTube.
Thanks for watching and all that jazz.
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Dave Tran Jimmy Demoby Conteart123599 views
Brutal! genial!
alexisbecerrav 4 months ago
nice job 8)
watch my toon boom animation if you want to
llllllslerglllllllll 1 year ago
thats a cruel tease dude.. those are lost classics..
Regplex 2 years ago