DIGICEL FLIPBOOK ALTERNATIVE TRIAL

The brush tool alone won me over, and shortly after I did this quick simple cartoon to celebrate my discovery: Toon Boom is a dream come true for an animator who has spent years battling with Flash to do the simplest things.

DIGICEL FLIPBOOK ALTERNATIVE TRIAL

Next up I downloaded the free trial of Toon Boom Animate. I gave it another shot, but it just wasn’t what I was looking for. I had used Digicel Flipbook back in animation school, however (probably mostly due to the lousy computers there) it had a tendency to crash every 2.5 minutes and drove me absolutely crazy. Unlike the early 2000s, I knew that I had a few more options in front of me, so I set out to see what might be best. When I created this cartoon, I had to break it up into several pieces because Flash destroyed the audio sync by the end of several minutes of video.

The straw that broke the camel’s back, though, was when I discovered there was a limit to the number of frames a project could have. It’s propensity to crash, the terrible, TERRIBLE drawing tools that “auto-correct” your lines to be no where near the lines you intended, occasional tweens that broke every symbol in every layer in the file. Fast Forward Eight Years.Īfter almost a decade of working with Flash, the quirks of the program were mostly known to me. And for that I will forever be grateful to Macromedia and their little interactive-web-media. The audio was crude, everything was stiff and lifeless, and there are a few visual tangents in there that make me want to go back in time and punch myself in the face, but I was finally doing what I had always dreamed. I worked several freelance jobs designing logos and marketing and used the proceeds to buy a copy of Flash 5, immediately diving into the world of animation! Well, I perhaps should put quotes around “animation” as my early attempts seen here are barely animated at all. I first began animating after seeing and learning of this magical program that would let even a simpleton like me live that glorious dream I had always wanted to live. Or truthfully I should say if it had not been for MACROMEDIA Flash version 5.

It is very likely that I would not be “an animator” if it had not been for Adobe Flash. Who really likes reading an editorial that plays it safe, though? Today I’ll be telling you why as an animator, you shouldn’t touch Adobe Flash with a ten-foot pole, and if it’s on your computer right now the “Delete” button should be your next move. Anticipation and Overshoots are Extremes, because. Normally the “right answer” is somewhere in the middle and not at the extremes An extreme keyframe is the moment where a change in direction occurs. I try to keep a pretty level head about most topics, from the big ones to the small stuff.

Digicel flipbook alternative