Hullo gang, well, i've got a question, well if I didn't I wouldn't be posting here right? Well anyhow, I want to do a cartoon, it just so happens that I'm good at doing backgrounds in 3d and doing my caracthers in 2d. And so.... Well, I wanted to combine both techniques.... Is there a program that allows me to import the backgrounds in 3d and then my 2d hand drawing?
thanks for your answer
vince

Yes, it used to be known as Moho, and no is called AnimeStudio. You can load 3D content into that. You can also do you rendering of 3D first and then draw in Dogwaffle on top. Depends on whether you are looking to manipulate objects and draw line art or prefer to draw frame by frrame. Dogwaffle is great for the latter.

See for example this new tutorial on using the free version of Dogwaffle with Virtualdub: jumping jack

http://www.thebest3d.comdogwaffle/free/tutorials

You'll also see links in there for Animestudio through Purplus, great discounts.

Here's an example of someone using AnimeSTuidio along with DOgwaffle for pretty much the same as you're looking to do: draw cartoons into a nice background and/or add foregroun images too. Dogwaffle is particularly well suited for making foliage, grass, trees, bushes etc...
http://thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/dotm/DwayneJensen/index.html

-Philip
thebest3d.com - beyond digital painting

thanks bro, I've got animestudiopro now it comes the figuring how it works, oh well, nothing is easy in life
thanks again, anymore ideas please let me know

Actually anime studio pro is one of the easiest programs I've ever used. It may look a little steep learning curve at first, but all you need to do is go through some of the stuff you see in the help file and you should be ready for your own projects in just a couple of weeks.

that is good news.... not that i'm in a hurry, it's just a project that I had as a comic but i grew tired of seeing it static and i've been doing a lot of vd editing and i started to see the comics coming alieve, and so..... well, thanks for the news partner
vince

Quote - thanks bro, I've got animestudiopro now it comes the figuring how it works, oh well, nothing is easy in life
thanks again, anymore ideas please let me know

excellent. And of course I'm just ASSUMING that they kept the 3D capability in there after Moho. See if you can File>Import or File>Open or similar and choose Wavefront OBJ, DXF or other 3D formats.

Let us know, I'm curious.

Quote - that is good news.... not that i'm in a hurry, it's just a project that I had as a comic but i grew tired of seeing it static and i've been doing a lot of vd editing and i started to see the comics coming alive, and so..... well, thanks for the news partner
vince

Talking about Anime and Cartoons.... and also Comic Strips... Comic Book Creator 2 also has features to include animations, including sound. It also includes several companion programs, including Audacity for audio, and PD Particles (standalone version of Project Dogwaffle's particle brush system aka optipustics, plus some of the internal brushes), primarily intended to paint backgrounds and foregrounds, and you can use such in MoHo/AnimeStudio too of course as shown in the links above.

So there's several ways to get PD Particles for free, such as when you get Comicbook Creator 2, or others, see the ordering page where other free offers are available. If for example you buy a paerticipating antivirus proggy, or clothing or whatever the other dealers do, you can find a way to get PD Particles for free as a promo.

B-T-W here's the link to the user guide of Comicbook Creator, which is of course a good way to learn how to use it as well as companion tools.

http://www.myplanetwide.com/userfiles/docs/CBC2%20Help%2089.pdf

One thing that's not included there but available as a free add-on, a plugin named PennyPaint, for PD Particles, adds a few brushes which are Spline interpolated, anti-aliased and pressure sensitive (table), and made pecifically for line artits, aka comics, cartoonists etc...
http://thebest3d.com/pdp/downloads/penny.html

If you use PD Particles along ith Animestudio, you'll definitely want to add Penny to it. It's free.

If you haven't tried Dogwaffle yet, there's a freeware version too, version 1.2 at www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free   it may just be all you need as a companion, without the need to buy up to full and higher end versions. Here's a new tutorial to create a simple animation and save it as Targa image sequence, then use VirtualDub to convert it to animated GIF and AVI or other image formats (which Irfanview can do too of course, also free)

www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/tutorials