There is a huge number of drawing / animation / media related software packages out there which will assist us in the creation of our final animatic. Each program has its pros and cons and various methods of achieving the same goal.
An animatic is the stage between storyboarding and the final piece of film. It’s basically an advanced storyboard with additional content which gives the viewer the sense of such things as mood and timing via the inclusion of music, basic camera movements etc
‘Flash’ and ‘Toon Boom Studio’ are both packages which focus more on the animation side. I personally, have used Flash more than Toon Boom and I find it a lot easier to use. The main reason for this being that I’m not a very skilled artist and Flash’s drawing tools are superior to the ones found in Toon Boom. For people like me it’s a lot easier to experiment with the different shape and adjustment tools available in Flash and end up with a worthwhile character or image. It would be much more difficult in Toon Boom where the drawing tools are limited. Flash is also very user friendly as far as the animation is concerned too with the ability to ‘tween’ motion and shapes. ‘Tweening’ (short for ‘In-betweening’) is the process through which the frames between two key frames are created in order to create a sense of fluid movement from one key frame to the next. Flash has automatic tweening tools which cuts down on a lot of frames needed to be drawn. Toon Boom doesn’t have anything like that and so each frame must be input and adjusted individually.
Toon Boom is better in other ways of course. For example, items / sprites can be attached to a virtual ‘peg’ which can me moved around in 3 dimensions to give a much greater sense of depth than Flash.
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