Toon Boom

So today I got really tired of Flash. I had the trail and every time I would try to open Flash, there was an error that I just didn’t know how to fix. It would say uninstall and re install the program. The good thing about this corrupted file was that the 30 day trial would start over. But the reinstalling process really got annoying and not only that, Flash would crash every 5 minuets! And if I didn’t save, I’d lose all my work or even if I did save, there was a high chance Flash would crash while I was trying to save and I’d lose my work anyway! Ugh! How irriating!

Now this isn’t a rant on how horrible Flash is because I think it’s actually a really good program but one that just doesn’t want to work properly on my computer. So I started looking around of other animation software. I came across one that I have heard about in the past called Toon Bom and I decided to look into it.

Toon Boom seems, to me, to be made more for cartoon work like shows and such and then Flash more for application animation type thing. Sorry if that’s pretty obvious to others but I knew about Flash and just thought “Well hey…I’m going to try to make a show using this program.” And that just didn’t work out for me. I”m going to try the trail for Toon Boom and even though I can’t buy this program, I think it’ll be fun to buy. Also, I heard there was a free program that was a lot like Toon Boom but just not as polished.

So what’s so great about Toon Boom? Well my interest was in Toon Boom Animate Pro and the thing I really liked about it and seemed interesting to me was the Automated Lip Sync Detection and the 3D Stage. The lip sync function helps with, of course, syncing audio to your animation. To me, syncing lips isn’t all that difficult but it doesn’t hurt to try to make things easier! haha  And the 3D stage allows you to work more with perspective and actually create a world inside the program – even if you want to create a 2D animation. Now this program is for 2D animation or at least I didn’t see anything for 3D animation.

You can check out the program by watching this video which does an overview of the program:

If you want to take a look at the program similar to this one, but free, you can find that here.