Synopsis
Anime Studio is your complete animation program to help you create cut-out, anime and other types of cartoons. You can create your own animated shorts and use Anime Studio to produce cartoon animations for film, TV, or streaming over the Web. Anime Studio is great for hobbyists and professionals alike, combining tools for both illustration and animation. With Anime Studio s easy-to-use interface, you will be creating an animated masterpiece in no time.
This practical, step-by-step guide will provide you with a structured path for designing an animated cartoon and gives you a strong foundation to create your future projects. This book also serves as a great reference guide for Anime Studio Pro 10 s new features.
This book starts by getting you acquainted with the tools and features of Anime Studio Pro 10. You will then learn how to utilize them to create a cohesive and polished package. You will dive into the Anime Studio drawing tools, layer types, and various panels to create and rig a cartoon character as well as design background scenes and props. Everything is then combined, animated and polished. Finally, you will take everything you have created and edit it together so that it can be distributed online through websites such as YouTube and Vimeo.
About the Author
Chad is a freelance media designer who has been working with Flash, Anime Studio, and various other types of software for a number of years. By applying methods used from his cartoon animation and filmmaking background, Chad provides a simplistic yet creative approach to each lesson he teaches.
Beginning in 1996 with a program called Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker, Chad cut his teeth on the basics of animation, eventually graduating to Flash in 2002, and then Anime Studio in 2010. Live action filmmaking was also a big part of Chad's life as he made short films with his friends throughout high school and college.
In 2007, Chad started providing free online video tutorials on Flash and other software. Since then, his tutorials have been viewed by millions of people, including entrepreneurs, teachers, students, and many others. In 2010, Chad was hired by LearnKey to present their Flash CS5 learning series, which was a six hour course detailing the entire feature set of the software. Since then, Chad has been keeping busy with various animation and tutorial projects such as creating Smith Micro s official Anime Studio 9 tutorial series and writing for the Virtual Training Company.
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