Feature 2D Animation Questions

[SpaceMan]

Feature 2D Animation Questions:
Looking for a Disney style (golden age hand drawn effect)

I have the following software-
ZBrush 3.5r3 (ZBrush4)
Photoshop CS4 Extended
After Effects Pro CS4
Premiere Pro CS4
Illustrator Pro CS4
Flash Pro CS4
Sonar 8.5 Studio

Plus a lot of pencils and paper:)

Are programs able to create feature animations?
If so any workflow ideals.
TIA

[SpaceMan]

Here's a link to a painting for doing a pan.
http://one1more2time3.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/castle/
How much bigger does the painting (image size) need to be from frame size to pan?
I guess After Effects for pans?

[ISK-86]

It depends... ask yourself first: How much will the camera move in the pan?

[jramauri]

http://www.plasticanimationpaper.dk/
This wonderful sotware (PAP) now is free to use how you like it.

http://www.toonboom.com/main/
Toon Boom Company offers too a lot of pro softwares for 2d animation

http://www.toonz.com/
http://www.cambridgeanimation.com/animo6/animo6.html
These 2 are good too, but very expensive.

My recomendation is to use Plastic Animation (PAP) to draw the chars, as it's a free software now, Photoshop or Zbrush for BG paintings and use After Effects to put all togheter on the screen.

Good luck!

[Svengali]

From France, TVPaint is another 2D animation package (pixel based) used by a lot of 2D animators, world wide. The robust software is currently at version 9.5 and has been around for over a dozen years. There are two different levels of the software, standard and professional.

Download the trial package to try out at their website:

TVPaint.com (http://www.tvpaint.com/v2/content/article/home/)

They also have a public beta version of TVPaint for Linux, available on request.

Sven

[SpaceMan]

Guys looking into your info:cool:

Have any of you seen the cs5 vid - the shadow
http://vimeo.com/11097473