Trouble is, I have my assignments pestering me, I have a wife who demands at least some attention, an occasional social obligation and a Scottish Terrier who needs walking each and every day. I really should get in there and mess around with my Illustrator CS–its icon just sits there waiting for me to click it. Mathieu - yes, intriguing indeed! I’m delighted to hear it and look forward to its unveiling. I’m not asking for Painter, just one or two more options. I just wish there were at least one more crayon/pencil/chalk-type of tool option. I love Toon Boom and I don’t mean to complain.
Also, thanks for the links, I enjoyed your animations.Īlthough I earn my living as an artist/illistrator, I’m not an animator (yet.) In addition to drawing and painting on paper and canvas, I’ve worked regularly in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter. Just for yucks, you should check out Illustrator’s brushes you might find that you could create some interesting drawings with a different look that you could import into TBS as an alternative to scanning your ink drawings. (Mirage looks amazing and seems to be somewhere between Painter and Toon Boom and a LOT more expensive.)Įlwood - I’ve got a Pelikan 120 also, although I haven’t used it for years. While Illustrator allows you to see the results instantly, Moho requires you to draw your normal lines, then select a brush style, then render to see the results. It IS a very interesting option which I will explore further you could, for example, load up a texture created in Painter and use it as your “pen” tool in Toon Boom.Īlso, Moho does indeed have the capability, along with Illustrator, to use different brush styles/textures. While I HAVE used this feature successfully to animate a drawing done in a textured line quality, it’s still not quite what I had in mind. However, if you click on the Color Palette tab in the Properties window, click on the icon to the right of “Name,” drop down to Color>Add Texture you are able to load a jpeg texure which you can use to paint or draw with. Rob - the only parameters that can be adjusted when creating a new brush in the properties window are minimum and maximum line width and smoothness.
PS: I created the animation “Sweet Dreams” using Macromedia Flash, also a vector program. I’ll have to revisit it and check out the brushes to see what you are referring to. I have Adobe Illustrator, but I haven’t used it in a long time and never really did use it much. I scanned each image (frame) & assembled them into a QuickTime which I then edited in iMovie. I created that animation using my Pelikan pen on watercolor paper. You can compare that vector line with my hand-drawn pen line by going to my website and viewing my “Little Green Monkey” animation: It’s simple, but I was pretty much pleased with the line quality. Mine is the second one down called “Monkeybone”.
Toon boom studio 8 getting started mac#
If you’re interested in seeing an animation I whipped up to test out the Mac Version 3 when it first came out using the Wacom to get my loosey-goosey style vector line, go to the Toon Boom Showcase and click on Cartoon Animations. I’m still not entirely at one with the tablet, but I’ve come pretty far.
Toon boom studio 8 getting started software#
Toon Boom was the first animation software I ever used and it took a lot of practice to get comfortable with the vector line and using the Wacom tablet/stylus. I guess as the vector drawing tools go, Toon Boom offers a good compromise, but it still has its limitations. When Rob suggests you create your own pen, I will say that it’s one of the reasons I prefer Toon Boom to Flash–I can create a much more personal “pen line” with Toon Boom’s property options.īut, like you, I do wish we could get an actual “graphite” pencil line and a simulation of the kind of line I get with my Pelikan 120, flexible nib fountain pen when I’m drawing on Arches Cold Press watercolor paper.