Toon Boom visits Georgia for Game Design Camp

My friends at Toon Boom just told me about an event in my neck of the woods (Georgia). They are co-hosting a game design camp at SCAD for students aged 12-15. Thats probably a bit younger than most of my readers, but hey, some of you might have kids that age. Here’s some more info [...]

Some random CartoonSmart news….

Okay, I’m expecting a big work week coming up, which probably means with my luck, nothing I’m planning to do will get done. But I’m nearly done recording the end of the Wave Attack Game for the iOS course, so again, sorry for the delay but its coming. I did though update all the previous [...]

Toon Boom training comes to my home state.

My friends at Toon Boom just tipped me off to this article  about Toon Boom training here in Georgia. Here’s some cut and paste from the full article… The Georgia Entertainment Media Work Ready Region, the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Georgia Department of Economic Development (Digital Entertainment Office) are pleased to announce and provide Toon Boom Software Training for 2 [...]

New Toon Boom Animate Tutorials!

Holla! Its 2011!!  Finally, right. One more year till 2012 and we can all say “so long suckers” forever and evaporate into space dust when some totally sweet solar junk wipes its butt with Earth JUST like the Mayans said would happen…Oh what’s that? The Mayans just said 2012 was the start of a new [...]

Zombie Bods are Finally Here!

Take a look at these beauties! And uglies. Once again, the great Justin Cook has delivered an awesome collection of Toon Boom Animate character templates. These come fully rigged for animation and have plenty of body parts to swap through, including “normal” and “zombie” modes. Plus there’s tons of mouths for lip syncing, and each character [...]

Zombie Bods Preview! “Chinnery”

I had to share Justin Cook’s latest Toon Boom Animate character template as soon as I could. I’m not saying he looks identical to a certain actor from Evil Dead, but I’m not saying he looks too un-identical either. Chinnery will be for sale in a mere days!  In time for your Halloween themed animations! [...]

Big Toon Boom Discounts Tomorrow Only

Animate Pro is $999 and Animate Reg is $299. Just sayin’ is all. Also because I want to share this but not create another post, here’s a good freelance comic for ya’ll. Some of you won’t find it funny at all though. Too real….

Copying / importing from one Toon Boom Animate Project to another

Below is a relatively short lesson for our Toon Boom Animate crowd. Justin Cook made this for you guys because copying artwork with your bone structure intact directly from one Animate project file to another isn’t possible with a simple cut and paste, but  this video will explain why that is and what to do [...]

Zombie Bods Preview

Here’s a preview of our upcoming Zombie Bods Character Pack for Toon Boom Animate and Animate Pro… Check out the body substitutions in particular. Yummm…. And for those of you just stumbling onto this blog, we’ve already got an Office Bods template pack available here.

Toon Boom Animate Zombie Templates Coming Soon

Ok its been decided, our next set of Toon Boom Animate character templates will be Zombies! Justin Cook is drawing these up now, complete with drawing substitutions for zombified and non-zombified versions of each character. And if you’re not sure what that means exactly, Animate has a simple slider tool for swapping one piece of [...]