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Anime Studio Debut 7
(as of 28/08/2010 03:12 - more info)
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Anime Studio Debut 7 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiastsCreate your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint, an..read more
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Anime Studio Debut 7
$50$25Anime Studio Debut 7 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiastsCreate your own art using intuitive vector-b..
Listed Under: Graphics
For all those that have doubts from reading the reviews on this program. DON’T. This program is limitless. The bad reviws may be because it takes a long time to understand how it all works. It took me a few days and I’m still learning. So far with this program, I’ve managed to create an animation of Zuko from Avatar the last Airbender. I’m currently creating one of my own characters.
About the program: As I said before, it’s limitless. If you want to create a disney quality animation you sure can. (although it will take a looooooong time and for lighting effects you may need another program) no program out there will allow you to create disney quality animations anyway within a timely manner.
I’ve tried the trial of the debut version along with a trial of the pro version. the difference? 3d and tracing. this version allows you to upload images so you can try to trace if you want but in the pro version, it makes what you draw translucent so it’s easier to trace. The 3d isn’t a big deal really but 3d helps save time. How you may ask? without 3d you have to remake the same character at different angles (i.e back,front,side,45 degree) with 3d you make the character once and all angles are there. 3d also makes head turns easier.
if you’re still in doubt go to [...] and get the trial to the debut version and maybe even try the pro version to see the difference. remember, it will be hard to get the hang of. there are tutorials online that you can always find. search examples of people’s work online too of what they’ve created with anime studio. I know there’s a really good one where the characters speak in french (the quality looks like the prince of egypt and it was created in the older version too!).
I plan to start making my own video series on youtube with this awesome program. whatever you do don’t let doubt stop you from getting it just because some people are too lazy to learn how to use it, try it for yourself, watch examples.
Over all this program is pretty simple in terms of features available but can be complex in actually USING those features! It seems to be made for beginners in a way but with professionals and people “in the know” in mind.
The install process was what you’d expect (hitting Next a lot, inputting the license key, etc).
Actually using the program, at first this can be daunting. There are a lot of options available to you that if you don’t really know the program may not make sense to you.
Of course, this is where the tutorials come in. There are a lot of tutorials to dig into that show you the basics and some advanced techniques. But then you’re not animating right away.
This is where beginner mode comes in. It has this mode for beginners, obviously and it makes things a bit simpler to deal with, however it’s still not something that makes learning the program THAT much easier.
One of the new features in this version is what is called “bone rigging.” This allows you to import a drawing or artwork and then overlay this with a sort of wire frame of “bones” to make for easy animation of this artwork. The problem I have with this is it makes your animation look more like marionettes and not really animated in a traditional sense. I don’t really like the way it looks, but it has it’s ups and downs and makes animating things easier.
You can also record your own audio right into the program, which is nice. You can also import audio files as well, in case you want background music or something similar. The audio recording controls are… primitive. The only manipulation you can do within the software is pitch shifting. I guess this is better than nothing (which I believe you had in the previous version). You may wish to record your dialog in another sound program and adjust pitch and so on there instead.
Over all it’s an OK program with a lot of limitations. It’s not made for professional quality animation and it shows. All of the tools work well within the confines of the program, but it just feels limited over all. If you’re looking to make short animated clips for YouTube or Facebook and don’t need it to look professional, you can probably do all you would need or want just in the beginner mode they offer.
If you’re looking to create professional grade animation, it will take a LOT of work to make this produce something you would want to publish.
The program is fun and let’s you explore your creativity, but it is limited. This is probably a good starter program for a learning to animate for a younger audience (but not too young, given it can be overly complex in ways) but for someone looking into animation as a full time job, look elsewhere.
This is a cute idea but disk failed to load on either of the MacBooks in my household.
I am still in the process of doing tutorials, but it seems to be working fine and I remain interested in learning more about it. My 8 year old is enjoying it, to, and is probably picking it up faster than I am.
Although this software allows Bone Rigging in order to get Bone Physics you have to buy the Pro version.
When I compared Debut VS Pro on Amazon I didn’t see much of a difference other than Pro allows you to create in 3-D. When you go on Smith Micro’s website it gives you a much better comparison.
It’s a hard program to learn. Right now, everytime I move a bone my whole character either implodes, or splits in two while becoming headless. It isn’t a program for the easily impatient or easily infuriated!
It does allow you to import artwork, but BEWARE! If you scanned your sketch book or created an image that’s flat (like bmp or jpeg) you might have to disassemble your character and make files for separate body parts. I made my characters in MS Paint and because I use a copy and paste method (while saving everything I make for later use) it’s easier for me to save an arm or a leg here or there, but on my scanned art? Not a very good prospect.
The instructions on imported artwork is negligible-there’s hardly any. While I waited for my software in the mail I dilligently made characters in MS Paint, only to find it hard to use them in the program. Deconstructing the characters to their body parts might make bone rigging easier, but if the imported image is too big you have to scale it down, and then lining up all the body part layers and resizing them to the right porportions is a huge hassle.
Smith-Micro customer service won’t help you either. After you register your product, you can get tech support, but when you call they aren’t allowed to help with any program questions…even if they know how to solve your problem!
I’m weary of buying the guides because there isn’t one for this specific version yet.