tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286719692011-04-21T15:32:23.199-07:00Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15910421758240509355noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-59939097181300850172008-09-16T10:12:00.000-07:002008-09-16T10:13:58.443-07:00

So I went ahead and purchased the 4.5 version, and have a little time to keep poking around. I'm interested in the new features, as poking around in the app without reading the documentation doesn't show a lot of new things happening since v3.5. We'll see.

Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15910421758240509355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-61406758577883993302007-02-05T11:44:00.000-08:002007-02-05T11:49:39.616-08:00

So Sam Niemann's short film Ruby Rocket is done. I helped out with colouring and export, and general technical stuff. He started using ToonBoom a little as well, and pointed out the "Paint Unpainted" tool to me. Its great. It takes care of the "Assign unpainted to colour" wish from the previous post. It was a good experience to use ToonBoom in a production that was based on hand-drawn cels, and

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1155928849377601662006-08-18T12:17:00.000-07:002006-08-18T12:20:49.386-07:00

I've been using ToonBoom quite regularly now, but mainly as a clean-up/colouring tool. I'm helping out a friend with his animation. Its been good so far, I've really appreciated the vectorization and paint bucket. Some things I could use:- Assign unpainted to colour- Merge colours- default colour for bitmap vectorizationThere are over 2000 cells right now, and I'm about halfway through colouring.

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1150580982299351742006-06-17T14:48:00.000-07:002006-06-17T14:49:42.306-07:00

I have taken a contract job with Renegade Animation for the next couple of weeks, which will pull me away from adding to this blog. I have also had to revert to Flash for a personal project, when I couldn't get ToonBoom to do what I wanted.

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1148575359502534582006-05-25T14:34:00.000-07:002006-05-25T14:51:32.533-07:00

Toonboom is sort of stuck between the traditional animation and the digital mentalities. When it first starts up, over on the right is a traditional dope sheet (exposure sheet, x-sheet, etc.). Those familiar with timing things out before animating will be on familiar ground -- you can even time the animation out in Toonboom without having any artwork. But in Sceneplanning mode, Toonboom has a

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1148512206440853972006-05-24T15:58:00.000-07:002006-05-25T09:28:59.470-07:00

I appreciate that one can just start drawing in Toonboom. Sure, it would probably help to know about exposures, Libraries, etc. But for the initial tryout, I want to be able to try out the drawing.I started with the mouse, and it fared well. Drawing is similar to the brush in Flash -- but only on the surface. This is best described when using the Pen tool. Toonboom offers different pen styles,

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1148488418099369412006-05-24T09:21:00.000-07:002006-05-24T09:33:38.106-07:00

First impressions of the application, from user interface to documentation.I purchased the download version, and did not receive any packaging or paper documentation. The pdf documentation has a nice table of contents, which is very useful. Also useful are the "See Also" listings at the end of each section, hot-linked to their destination. The actual content of the documentation is not as great.

Lucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28671969.post-1148487035900350882006-05-24T08:51:00.000-07:002006-05-24T09:10:35.906-07:00

I have been animating professionally in Flash for seven years, and know my way around the Flash environment. It is, by far, the most popular application to use; however it has never been a great environment, with awkward setups and animation, glitchy interfaces, etc. Of late, the new versions have been much more geared towards website development, with the animation features taking a back seat.

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