Moho Animation Forum

Greetings I hope you are all well, first of all I want to congratulate the developers of the software, I think is very versatile and has great features, but at the same time I wanted to ask why some one has not developed a movie or cartoon completely animated in Anime studio, with all due respect I haven't seen quality productions. I mean I looked on internet and other media but everything I found where pretty good advertising and commercials, but not a cartoon that can compete with the things animation studios do in flash or other softwares. Maybe you know some works that can relate to me in order to see how far can I get with the software.Thank you very much.

Victor Paredes is pretty skilled with ASP.
https://www.youtube.com/user/tazatriste

If you have Netflix, be sure to check out Puffin Rock. It's a preschool show that's very well designed and animated, and from what I've been told it was entirely animated in Anime Studio.

I understand that some parts of the Oscar nominated Song of the Sea were also animated using Anime Studio.

G.

Here's a clip from Puffin Rock, if you don't want to pay for Netflix.

https://vimeo.com/116147567

It's better than a lot of shows made in Flash or Toon Boom (which is the self-proclaimed market leader).

AS was used for a lot of the character animation in this:

I'm learning flash, slowly. I'm finding it to be a big disappointment. I use rig and morphing to animate. The major difference between Anime Studio and other 2d animation programs is that Anime Studio listens to the users.



As far as I know you can't do this in any other program.

Dale

dueyftw wrote:The major difference between Anime Studio and other 2d animation programs is that Anime Studio listens to the users.

I absolutely agree. AS has the best devs and community of any 2d program I have ever been a part of.

The now defunct Freakish Kid did some excellent things for Nickelodeon:

And there's Joe & Jack:

Actually, Kamenkabuto, what do you consider "good" animation? It would help to find a point of comparison, because as you can see from these clips above, you can get excellent quality animation for both movies and TV series.

I agree with JaMike, ASP is certainly capable of widely diverse styles and techniques, limited only by the imagination or skill of the user. Even in my own little ASP-related productions, my partner Alisa and I use the program to create very different styles of animation. The first was based my webcomic and it resembles the comic closely. The other was an animated title sequence we designed last winter for a live action production.





IMO, one reason you don't see a lot of ASP-only productions created by larger studios is that the software wasn't designed with a large team of artists working on the same production in mind. But recently with ASP 11, the developers have been paying more attention to the needs of animation studios with features like scene referencing and better batch rendering for compositing. However, they still need to let users define a real Project Directory (using a Relative path, not Absolute,) and including a native network rendering solution would be appealing too.

All that said, because the ASP developers do listen to their users (both big and small,) I believe the program is making its way into more studios. Hopefully, we'll be seeing more 'big studio' work created with ASP in the coming years.

G.

JaMike wrote:The now defunct Freakish Kid did some excellent things for Nickelodeon:

I enjoyed this immensely.