Toon Boom Announces Animate 2

Today, Toon Boom announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Animate 2, a new version that provides professional animators with more power and flexibility for creating traditional, digital, cut-out and Flash-style animation.
Toon Boom has listened to the animation community and is now delivering a new Animate version that reflects its requests. Animate is [...]

Animate “More for Less” Event in NY and DC

The Toon Boom Team will be in New York and Washington DC on October 27 and 28 to continue the Animate “More for Less” tour. If you are in the neighborhood, make sure to drop by. Register now!

Looping a symbol on the main timeline with Toon Boom Animate

Basically if you wanted to have a looping symbol in Toon Boom Animate or Animate Pro and you wanted that constantly running on the main timeline, I’ll list out the best steps to take below. This is a little different from Flash, where you’d create a Movieclip (or the now buggy Graphic clip). Flash is [...]

Spotlight Interview – Adam Phillips

Spotlight Interview – Adam Phillips
To herald the release of 4th Edition, animator Adam Phillips (of biteycastle.com) generated the “Making of 4th Edition” cartoons, featuring such celebrity spokesmonsters as the beholder, tiefling, troglodyte… and of course, the gnome.
With the release of the latest cartoon: Demogorgon and the Gnome, Adam took the time to answer a few [...]

Derriman and Phillips Invade Kenny’s World

For the Australian mockumentary TV series Kenny’s World, Bernard Derriman was called upon to create a number of interstitial animated segments. His weapon of choice on this project was Toon Boom, and Derriman brought on his friend and countryman Adam Phillips to help with effects animation and backgrounds. A half-dozen of these are [...]

A New Animated Blog !

Welcome! A new blog to document our experiences learning and using Toonboom’s new ANIMATE animation software.
This year we are making the big switch. ANIMATE appears to be a more streamlined, lighter, simpler and cleaner version of FLASH when its about animation. In the same price range as FLASH. Much easier to use, less clunky. Yes, [...]