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If you want to pay for software check out "Toon Boom Harmony". Harmony now has a subscription model for as little as $15 a month. Harmony is the industry standard for 2D animation and is in my opinion superior to Animate.
Here is a demo vid page:
https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony#harmony-overview-video
Toon Boom harmony just came out recently and its quite good from what I hear. You can try it free for 21 days and then there is a subscription fee ($20+usd pm) https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/try
That said a lot of animators are still using macromedia flash 8 because its the most stable and easiest to use version of flash. Heaps of tutorials for it given how old it is. This version was from before adobe bought out macromedia and ruined the software http://qpdownload.com/macromedia-flash-8/
Quite a number of things are done in After Effects.
At the next level is something like Toon Boon Harmony.
Southpark is done on Maya - overkill, except they're able to do episodic tv in about 6 days.
commonly used animation software popularized by calarts. the software itself is very good but often people exploit its software motion tweening to "move" characters between poses rather than animating frames by hand, similar to moving puppets.
Rick and morty is animated in toon boom harmony, however the fundementals of animation are the same in any program. If you can animate, you can use just about anything.
I don't have the experience to make a firm recommendation, but of the programs I've tried, Toon Boom seems best. Just be aware that minutes of hand-drawn animation will take a very long time.
As for the version issue:
>Can I move my data From one Harmony edition to a different Harmony edition?
>Yes. The editions share the same data format. So you can load projects created in Harmony Essentials into Harmony Advanced for example. Going the other direction, anything done with a functionality that is not available in that Harmony edition will be visible but not editable.
Until recently, the main difference with Harmony was the deform tool and the particle system. (There are others, but those are the big ones IMO) However, since Harmony 12 launched today there are now 3 tiers of Harmony with varying features that I will be trying out over the next few days, so I'll try and keep you posted!
edit: also it looks like they're phasing out Animate in October of this year, so your best bet might be one of the three new Harmony tiers. The comparison for those is here. :)
Are you mainly interested in bone based/deformed 2D Animation software? The ones from the top of my head are:
I'm one of the developers of the 2D Animation package for Unity. I'm interested in hearing any feedback you have on our package, so that we can improve it in future versions!
Peppering in some questions received from our community:
Q: I was just curious to know if the art and animations were done with rasters or with vectors, or perhaps even both and if so when was the situation more applicable to one or another.
A: All animations are done in Toon Boom Harmony, so that means each frame is vectorial while in the program. Our exports are all rasterized, though, as having vectors for the number of frames we have in the game would make it impossible to run on anything but an absolute beast machine.
They use Toon Boom Harmony to produce the show.
https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony
It would basically require updating some assets in that software. It wouldn’t be super simple...but it’s not as hard as redrawing the whole thing. The same assets get used over and over.
People typically associate the term “CG” with the 3D-rendered variety, but 2D animation can be CG too (as it is in this case).
Tangled: The Series is made using Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Harmony.
That's useful feedback, and we always appreciate when feature requests come with an example of how they fit into your workflow.
>I know handdrawn isn't as in demand as rigging capabilities
It's interesting that you mention that, because we are working to fix that perception. Many of the biggest features in the most recent release of Harmony were focused on traditional digital animation, and we are always looking at how we can improve the tools that animators rely on.
Hi u/Mid-airs, thank you for reaching out. The edition of Harmony that will be right for you will largely depend on what your needs are. If you are planning to animate your pilot frame-by-frame using traditional digital animation techniques, we would recommend the Advanced licence. If you will be using 2D rigging and need production-quality compositing and effects, then you will want the node view in Premium.
If you are not sure if you need Premium, we would recommend downloading the free trial.
ToonBoom but you have to be a really good friend to get him a copy, LOL, its pretty spendy. $73 a month or $1975 for a perpetual license https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/pricing
A subscription to Adobe Animate would be less expensive $20 a month yearly discount $239 but it is available by subscription only. However since he is using flash already he will take to this like a duck to water. https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3ZG-mYX74AIVVyCtBh0yYAw5EAAYASAAEgKN9fD_BwE&sdid=KKQXH&mv=search&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI3ZG-mYX74AIVVyCtBh0yYAw5EAAYASAAEgKN9fD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!301401743893!b!!g...
He's going to be using the machine for animation mainly. He's using Toon Boom which has very high requirements.
https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/system-requirements
Again, money is ample for him so went for a high storage option BUT fucking hindsight, should've bought an M.2 SSD as the IOPS are a lot faster. Didn't know motherboard had the option when purchased. Still really damn quick mind with SATA.
Hi there /u/cheesedog67. Apologies for the incredibly late reply, but we are new to the sub!
We are the official account of Toon Boom, and we figured it would be a good idea to go back and answer some older questions in case anyone experiences the same problem later on.
Toon Boom no longer offers Toon Boom Studio, so any educational versions won't be available to upgrade. Harmony Essentials is now available (since the Harmony 12 release), and if you are still a student there is an educational discount! If not, you can always reach out to us to discuss your needs and we can help you choose the right option for your budget.
If you decide to switch, we've worked hard on Harmony Essentials to make sure it gives you higher quality rendering and faster performance, easier exporting for games engines, textured drawing, and better handling of larger scenes.
Hope that helps you and anyone else who was wondering!
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You're probably more familiar with the old pricing of Toon Boom rather than their current pricing. If you're a student, pricing on Toon Boom Harmony is incredibly affordable. $6, $9, and $17 for Essential, Advanced, and Premium a month respectively without a commitment like Adobe programs.
https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/student-pricing
Even if you're not a student, it's $15 a month for Essential and $38 for Advanced. Toon Boom has great game export features and is a great industry standard starting point.
If possible I would highly suggest Premium if you can, although even essentials is worth it, but with Premium you get curve deformers which are extremely useful and fun to play with when rigging characters and other assets. Also gets you more special effects, and other neat features.
Check here to compare the features between the versions: https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/features
Hello! I'm a professional 2D animator and I'm self-taught, my BA was in Broadcasting and Film but we never did any animation at school.
Anyway, for me personally I just learned by doing. I was working on a live-action short film for a festival and it wasn't going well and we didn't think we'd make the deadline, so on a whim I opened up Flash and decided to try and make a cartoon, regardless of quality. This was on the Friday before the deadline, and by Sunday I had a thing. As you can see the results were not great but it got accepted and people seemed to laugh in the right places. That gave me the confidence boost to make more things and it just went from there. :)
In terms of software for 2D I'd recommend Toon Boom. That's what I use now and if I knew then what I know now I'd have started on that instead. They have have free trial versions and if you like it you can either buy it outright or they have a subscription model kind of like Photoshop. Other people use Flash and After Effects too from what I've seen, and they're good too but personally I prefer Toon Boom.
Also as someone else said, the Animator's Survival Kit is amazing, and also anything by Preston Blair. I don't know much about 3D (I'm about to start learning!) but Blender is open source and people seem to like it.
Hope that helps! :)
Yeah, I'm Mada the creator of the English 10.3 cracking video. 'Moorky-Patch It' a Youtuber released the German video. You can search him up on Youtube. Unfortunately he hasn't released Harmony 11 yet. Anyone willing to crack Harmony 12 premium can download the trial from here: https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/try We'll leave it up to the experts to crack the program.
Though if you look at ToonBoom's features page, it does have some options for exporting your files in game-friendly ways, such as cutting the character's parts apart into separate layers.
They've got so many products I'm willing to bet they'll be phasing out the Animate software and just have the three versions of Harmony. There's this old comparison chart; https://www.toonboom.com/animation-software/compare-animation-software As far as the new Harmony goes, there is an interactive chart as the bottom of this page; https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/features