Feb 052010
Here I’ll teach you how to get around in my favourite animation software, ToonBoom Animate 2 and Animate Pro 2. The entire introductory video series (below) is absolutely free and, coming soon, exclusive lessons intermediate to advanced.
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Hey Adam, quick question… I noticed in some of your Brackenwood series (GREAT BTW) you produced in Flash, you would use what looked to be a particle system (on the gelatinous thingy stuck to the tree with little fleas hovering around it). One of the main reasons I slowed my usage of Flash was because I could not seem to render my actionscript into AVI format for editing in after effects. My actionscript would render in SWF but not AVI. I figured I’d have to go back into the production file and pull every code back onto the main timeline and it just hit me that flash was not created for ‘animators’ but mainly web developers…so i purchased TB Animate 2 recently. That being said…
Is there a particle system in toon boom A2 that allows you to create such effects as your ‘fleas?’ Or are you going to hit me with the jaw dropping news that you never used a particle system in the first place, but frame by frame animation? lol
(guess that wasn’t a quick question after all) but thanks. Hope to hear from you
about 50% of the particle swarms in Waterlollies were hand-animated. For those with a high particle count (e.g. the opening shot) those were AS3 particles. Getting it to render to video formats has always been a bitch with Flash, but most serious animators migrate to more serious animation software sooner or later.
Animate Pro and Harmony have particle systems. You should check out their trial versions. I haven’t tried them myself but I’ve watched demos and it looks pretty straight forward.
Adam – I’m completely inspired by your work and can’t thank you enough for your generosity in teaching the community through your fantastic tutorials. I will be sharing them with my high school students as we make the shift from Flash to Animate. Quick question: What’s the keyboard shortcut you’re using to switch from the paintbrush to the bucket tool for quick fills on the fly. Seems crazy, but I can’t find it anywhere. Thanks again!!!
Adam, this is much helpful than any other tutorial I’ve found so far since it’s really straight forward and easy to understand! When will you going to continue this tutorial series? And, I really hope to see the continuation of bitey adventure. thanks for share all of this!
You – are – GREAT!
I’ve never seen someone like you, who really wants to teach other people things just because he likes to share them.
Please keep this great work up.
thanks! Glad you like em
you are amazing !
Tell the truth Mr. Phillips, you hate rigging don’t you? lol. Great stuff btw, your scenes are stunning.
Adam, thank you! The tutorials that you make are as good as your animations. Impress me time control, fluidity, speed effects in your short films. Bad Drawing especially liked, but I’m watching all I can, including Bitey. Excuse my English, I’m from Salvador (Bahia), Brazil. I use flash and am trying to migrate to ToonBoom, and you have helped. Thanks again.
Hay Adam. Love the tutorials. I was just wondering if you know weather or not it is possible to create a costume brush shape in ToonBoom Animate Pro 2?
Thanks.
In Animate Pro 2 you can load in custom textures for textured brushes, but there’s no way to change the brush tip to something else.
~Lilly
Thanx a lot!!best toon boom tutorials!!
Adam Great tutorials easily the most user friendly on the web that i’ve seen so far (and iv’e seen a lot started going to T.T.A ( Toonboom Tutorials anonymous )” But i need a fix bro how long till you can sort me out!!”
Actually im doing a digree in animation and need all the help i can get. looking at cutout at the moment would be great to see something from start to finish. Could you if possible let us know the month your aiming for these
Tutorials to be released? I guess it will be in 2011 iBelieve there maybe a fee in these new ones but to be honest thats fine going by what you have allready produced i know it will be worth It. please let us know by blog or email. Thanks for all your cool work ” Your the Man! “
I’ve watched the Kick Start videos, great for very beginners but not quite what I was looking for. Your tutorials are more detailed and more concise, and you’re so funny! Thanks for all your hard work, you’re truly inspiring.
I’d like to know what are the main differences between Animate 2 and Animate Pro 2, just wondering If for some hobby of mine i’d better get Animate pro or just need animate and still have some pretty decent animating.
Thanks for the response ^^
And thanks for all these tutorials and videos
Animate Pro 2 has more advanced effects. Instead of working with a layer-based effect system, you work with a node-based effect system, and it comes packed in with a lot more effects than Animate. Effects can be useful not just for doing special effects, but also to create rigs for cutout characters. You can create much more effective and robust rigs when you have access to the Network View.
~Lilly
Hi Adam,
I have really enjoyed your tutorials. You are a great animator and teacher. I have learn so much just watching you. Plus, you’re funny. Thank you for helping me.
Peace,
Natalie
Very good work, I installed toon boom and you’re videos really helped.
Hi, you video tutorials on toonboom are by far the best I have seen. I love your own animation shorts they are amazing. I have searched all over trying to find GOOD tutorials on animating frame by frame in toonboom but so far most are very lame walk cycles and mostly not even tutorials just videos. PLEASE make some tutorials on your style of frame by frame. I know most people want to use IK or cut out characters because it is easier but there are still a few of us that like the old school look of frame by frame. Thanks
Hey Adam, Where did you get that pen and pad thing for your computer?
-M.C-
That’s a Wacom tablet. Mine’s a 9×12 Intuos 3.
can you send me the desktop background in the first tutorial?
Theo
Hi, I first did my animations in flash.. and when I tried to make longer animations,, flash failed me, crashing, corrupting and more..
so I was searching for an alternatieve and found toon boom but I didn’t know where to start
and now I do thanks to your awesome tutorials..
so thank you
I have been looking for an animation software for a while and found you through FancyPants2. I love the tutorials. This program looks WAY easier than I thought it would be, and I have never used flash for anything.
Hey Adam,
have watched most of your new tutorials on TB’s Animate 2 and love them. They have really helped with the learning curve. By far the best tutorials for TB Animate 2 to date.
I am more a traditional animator and would love to see some tutorials that are more dedicated to that with Animate 2. Your first tutorials go into it a bit with the bird animation, but I’d love to see your work process on how you would go about animating Bitey using Animate 2. I keep trying different things and trying different ways of working, but keep thinking I’m missing that perfect workflow on how exactly to approach working with individual drawings of every frame (or every other working in 2′s). Thanks again for some great tutorials.
Adam, what happens in Animate if I try to do the whole cartoon in one file, like Flash? I think it’s possible, nesting the scenes inside the symbols in the program, but I don’t know if it’s gonna lag up or explode, or what!
In one of your videos, you say weird things happen over 3000 frames. The cartoon I’m working on in Flash now is near 6000. What can I expect from Animate if I convert? (I’m dreading the idea of doing each scene individually and assembling it later.)
You’re fantastic, and thank you.
Well you can always break your animation up into different files, and then you can string them together using an editing software. Here’s a link to a good description of how to work with multiple scene files:
http://www.toonboom.com/support/forums/animate/index.php?board=17;action=display;threadid=1886
~Lilly
Hey Adam, thanks for the ToonBoom animate tutorials, they are very useful. I looked everywhere for something like this, but yours is the only one that actually explains things for me. Great video, great animator, love your work -thumbs up-