Upgrades

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.

Ruby Rocket Wrap-up

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 what I would like to try next is to use ToonBoom for:

- frame-by-frame animation, drawn directly into ToonBoom
- cut-out character animation, using ToonBoom's kinematics.


But while I'm working for Renegade Animation, I won't have too much time to really explore. And boy, I wish the ToonBoom documentation was better.

In Use, Real Busy

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 vectorization

There are over 2000 cells right now, and I'm about halfway through colouring.