Learn how to use and create your own keyboard shortcuts in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro.
From Toon Boom Animation: Animate brings together the most advanced animation feature set available on the market, all embedded in a flexible environment: vector, bitmap, symbols, pegs, camera, morphing, inverse kinematics and advanced lip-sync to name just a few. Toon Boom Animate user friendliness and advanced creative capabilities make it a cool addition to your animation toolkit. Its shortcut sets fit so nicely into your friendly circle of Adobe products and animation techniques that you will feel comfortable in minutes.
Toon Boom Animate adapts to your creative ways whether you are trained in traditional or digital animation. It also supports most standard formats for seamless asset transfer and multi-channel digital output.
Toon Boom Animate adapts to your creative ways whether you are trained in traditional or digital animation. It also supports most standard formats for seamless asset transfer and multi-channel digital output.
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Posted byFreelancer2 years ago
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Critically Speaking, how strong is Toonboom vs. Flash?
I've animated in flash for a long time. I predominately do rig-based stuff with frame-by-frame elements, attempting to take advantage of the strengths of both techniques. I currently use CS6, and have worked on adapting techniques to maximize efficiency, even mitigating its chance of crashing on me.
I've had a few peers herald Toon Boom as superior, and that it greatly improves efficiency. I've been trialing Advanced and will be trialing Premium soon.
I've been trying to work with it rigorously for the past few days, but it just feels unintuitive so far. Almost everything you can do in Advanced feels like something I could just as easily do in Flash. The key advantages are the line quality is undoubtedly superior, and it also has the ability to keep everything on a single display, no nesting is needed--stuff can easily be parented together. The better bone functionality and the animation pegs, while nice, aren't super game changing to me. Setting up drawings and rigs doesn't feel like it's saving me any time at all.
For anyone who has used both programs, am I crazy and are my issues just from me not understanding the program? I don't feel like what I've learned so far has gone over my head, but it feels almost like something's missing. Did anyone else find it unintuitive as they were learning, and did their opinions change as time went on? It feels too questionable for me to agree that it universally is better--I could see that some people would like it a lot more, but I don't know about objectively better overall. I know Premium has node maps which are game changing, allowing for some very complex compositing and rules for designs, as well as spline deformers, but is Toon Boom Premium really worth the $2000 pricetag? Does Toon Boom legitimately save time as effectively as people say? Cause so far, comparing the features of Advanced to Flash it doesn't seem to warrant a switch at all.
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