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Subject: Budding young artist wants to start animating

DocMatter opened this issue on Dec 22, 2016 · 8 posts

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DocMatter ( ) posted Thu, 22 December 2016 at 11:49 PM · edited Fri, 13 December 2024 at 2:18 PM

I'm giving my son a Watcom tablet for Christmas because he's been drawing by hand all his life and wants to start animating. Any suggestions for a good program for beginning animators? Thanks!

animajikgraphics ( ) posted Fri, 23 December 2016 at 12:07 AM · edited Fri, 23 December 2016 at 12:10 AM

Moho is great, full-fledged animation application (Smith Micro). Not terrible expensive. I've used it and it's fairly easy to learn.

Of course, if money is no object, there's Toon Boom Harmony, which is used by all the major animation studios. Good luck to your fledgling animator!

(Both support the Wacom tablet)

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DocMatter ( ) posted Fri, 23 December 2016 at 9:36 AM

Thanks for the tip! BTW, is Moho Debut the same as Anime Studio Debut?

poisinivy ( ) posted Fri, 23 December 2016 at 1:07 PM

Anime Studio is a great start software. easy to use and lots of tools to support it & as he grows and becomes better at animation its easier to move to with poser . I use Autodesk Maya and Daz Studo myself But they have a little more complex learning curve.

estherau ( ) posted Sun, 05 February 2017 at 3:50 PM

I am also new and thinking of trying. I have poser pro 11 and crazytalk animator 3. What is the best and easiest way? Do i need mimic. I would be wanting to make M4 and V4 talk i suppose.

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