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Trebuchet by Andrew Mussey
Andrew Mussey has a video and a companion story prominently featured in the June 28 Free Lance Star and Fredericksburg.com! The story is at: http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/062007/06282007/295550 The video will be in a later link.
Toon Boom's Storyboard Pro gets a glowing review
Congratulations on the great review for Storyboard Pro in Animation World Magazine! The review is available at http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3320&page=1 Since I purchased Storyboard Pro, I find more cartoon/animation ideas are being recorded and hashed out, usually VERY quickly, rather than getting lost in a scrap pile of paper or, worse, simply lost from memory! The software is very well designed to encourage development of ideas from a rough stage to an actual viable animation project. Even though storyboarding is critical to an animation, it is the one step I least enjoyed prior to this software. I now also use the software exclusively for my regular newspaper comics.
"Just a few changes..."
You’ve finished the animation. Proudly, you show it for final approval. You’re confident it’s great. Then it comes back: “Uh, we just need a few changes.” In the world of filmed animation, those words would likely have provoked violence. Fortunately, those days are behind us. Now, you can be much more flexible. The process of tweaking an animation with a rigid thirty second limit usually involves tweaking the entire sequence. Sound tracks must be either redone or modified to make longer or shorter… usually shorter. You clip out small silent spots. You electronically speed up the sound without changing the pitch, being careful not to destroy its natural quality. Finally, you have a soundtrack that meets the necessary demands. Now, you have to fix the pictures. The sound sync is now totally wrong. The camera moves to the wrong spots. ..And, you have some more drawing to do. I’m learning all sorts of tricks in Toon Boom’s Solo animation software to carefully modify the animation without t...
Work in progress
Click to the following page to see work on the current animation: http://www.drmussey.com/projects_under_construction3.htm