/ani/ - Animation

I was about to post it >_>

I can't wait to see the soulless pieces of crap that will be made with this!

http://www.toonz.com/

Here's the rest of the announcement:

Commenting on this exciting announcement, Mr. Atsushi Okui, Executive Imaging Director at Studio Ghibli said “ During the production of ‘Princess Mononoke’ in 1995, we needed a software enabling us to create a certain section of the animation digitally. We checked for what was available at that time and chose ‘Toonz’. Our requirement was that in order to continue producing theatre-quality animation without additional stress, the software must have the ability to combine the hand-drawn animation with the digitally painted ones seamlessly. From then onwards we continued to use the software while going through major updates to make it easier for us to use. We are happy to hear that this open source version contains the Ghibli Edition. We hope that many people inside and outside of the animation industry will utilize this software for their work. We would like to extend our gratitude to the staff of Digital Video.”

Claudio Mattei, Managing Director at Digital Video, the makers of TOONZ, said:

“ The contract with Dwango, which offers the Toonz open source platform to the animation community, has enabled Digital Video to realize one of its strategies, i.e. to make of Toonz a world standard for 2D animation. This deal will be also the starting point of a new exciting plan to endorse the Open Source business model, by supporting training and customizing Toonz for the old and new users. We are proud to share this path with Dwango and with Studio Ghibli, the renowned Toonz user since 1995.”

Mr Nobuo Kawakami, Chairman and CTO at Dwango, added:

''"It is a great honour for us to be able to release OpenToonz as open source software.

We’d like to express our deepest appreciation to Digital Video and Studio Ghibli for their help and support We hope the high-quality software that meets the demands of animation professionals will contribute to revitalizing the animation industry. Dwango will also utilize OpenToonz in oPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Sounds promising, but I won't get my hopes up.

>>846

What can go wrong?

I hope its easy to use

>>839

I saw it on the claim page and since it's a board I like, I didn't want it to fall in the wrong hands. If you want it back, just give me an e-mail address and I'll send you the new password.

>>834

>trigger warnings

>>824

>>822

Nice analysis. I agree with you that the animation looks clean and "essential", and it's difficult to imagine how it would benefit from adding or removing anything.

>>531

anon is kill. sorry /monster/.

>>532

>>531

>>>/monster/24681

The week was hell for me, thank God it's the weekend.

If someone could draw something for this story from /b/:

https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/Uncle-Anon-2

I'd be highly appreciative. Maybe Uncle Anon comforting Cassie?

>>537

>tfw you still died anyway

>>361

practice is always good

>>806

What did you use to export this GIF? There is a flashing of your vector nodes in one of the frames, which would indicate a bug that would want to be reported to the software developer. :)

>>810

yeah, I was wondering about that! I made this in flash and exported the file type to gif. I wonder if it's because I had a frame selected or something…

I don't think we can revive a declining company that uses flash.

For instance, any revenue made from a popular video would probably be stolen and be posted on Facebook or some other social media website WITHOUT any credit at all

>>774

Shit that's depressing, to see such a giant fall quietly

>>774

damn, RIP

>>775

> that uses flash

Flash is fine for animation. If the plugin is going away, you can just use Shumway for old content and HTML5/video exporting for new stuff.

Damn, it is quite upsetting to see this website fall out of the game. Funny enough, this is the website that exposed me to animation and got me into in the first place. I would be down to try to start posting there again. Maybe it'll make a difference if we all do.

>>768

>>769

Good points. Newgrounds needs to find its own niche and stop competing with Youtube; it also needs to abandon Flash. In short it has to reinvent itself if it wants to survive.

>>743

>minimal contributions

He hires other people to animate for him instead of working hard like the rest of us.

He took the easiest way out by aiming for profits.

>>745

wait, apparently I'm wrong on that

apparently that episode of Sequilitis where he shat all over Zelda was his last animation

& even then, he was only the key animator

Ross did the clean up animation

too much parody

too much

His animations were a part of a handful of stuff on Newgrounds I watched as a kid that actually introduced me to animation.

Even though it bums me out that he doesn't animate anymore, I still gotta respect the guy for getting me interested, in the first place.

>>743

Metal Gear Awesome was gud.

>>501

The smoorhness is very unique. Not even Disney looks so smooth. Not even 3D animation. I wonder what program he used.

>>791

TVPaint is so much fun to animate with but it's painstakingly time consuming to complete a full animation.

I'd rather animate in TVPaint because it's designed for animation rather than Photoshop. Animating in Photoshop is like building a house but you have to make all of the bricks yourself

Check out PlasticAnimationPaper. Entirely traditional styled program. Pretty fun and rather efficient. Also, why not just torrent an older copy of flash? I still have my disk of CS3 from a few years back and am glad I do.

Do yall come here to show your cartoons

>>814

Yeah, and talk cartoons, too

>>777

>no one bothers with Flash anymore

One troublesome aspect of this is that Flash can export to .swf files, which is pretty much the leading/only format for animation outside youtube. A lot of art sites support swf, but pretty much none of them support video files (DA does but it requires some special procedure/quality to get it uploaded). Getting a good video encoder for krita also seems unlikely.

Also, unless Krita gets some kind of tweening support, I doubt Flash is going anywhere. Tweens are used even by some good animators like Ryanide, plus it's important for panning the camera and effects like mist. It's also better for performance/memory to tween the movement of a painted background for instance, instead of re-drawing it onto every single frame.

>>780

>Video encoders

You can probably try out Swivel for any .swf conversions to a video format without loss of quality. The UI is a bit dated but it works like a charm for my animations.

>>784

What?

The problem is that art websites DO NOT SUPPORT VIDEO FILES

Converting a swf to a video is the complete opposite of what you want.

How do you disable mousewheel zooming in Krita?

>>809

Check the preferences?

To hijack this thread a bit, where can I go to learn the basics of animation and the mechanical aspects of it like how many frames per second should I be using in a walk cycle and things along those lines.

>>796

Thanks anon

>>795

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

This site has both The Animator's Survival Kit and The Illusion of Life (another great book).

I mean, at the end of the day, it's just another tool in your arsenal. Getting a super expensive nice tablet won't make that much of a difference until you're a top level of animation that demands it. Just roll with what you're feelin. I personally have an old Bamboo and an older model pen for it and love the shit out of it.

It requires you to tween instead of draw. It's not bad, but I'm not comfortable with the lack of control so I abandoned using it. Pencil2D is good, but the windows version doesn't have a .gif exporter.

>>545

I tried it for a few minutes, I guess its good for making Youtube Poops.

Tried it. couldn't get into it. Get some real software instead, like tvpaint or toonboom. If you insist on it being freeware, Gimp has an animation plugin that works.

Synfig + Papagayo…

also, SWITCH LAYER!!!!

As far as freeware goes, I really like PlasticAnimationPaper. I mean, it's entirely traditional style and coloring is out of the question… But it's not a bad choice overall!

http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2016/02/29/disney-worker-american-father-forced-to-retrain-foreign-hires-it-was-torture/

>We were given 90 days notice by a prominent Disney executive that we were going to train our foreign replacements. If we didn’t do so, we wouldn’t receive our severance package. Over that 90-day period, they recorded everything we did with the audio and video on our computers, and right at the end, we were ushered out the door. And the foreign workers that were flowing in just weeks before took over our jobs, and we were long gone.

>It was the most humiliating thing I’ve ever gone through. It really challenged my patriotism, because I felt like I was selling out my country like a prostitute, taking money in exchange for selling out my country. It was just utterly humiliating. It was torture. Every single day I was going through it — it was the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through in my life.