It arrived yesterday. I read the first 100 pages last night. It covers the program in fairly good detail with examples done up in screen shots. All in full color! Nice! Fairly easy to read too. Covers the underlying settings for various parts of the program; i.e.: layers, which is very helpful with ...

To import music and sound effects files and place each on their own "channel" and position them any place on the time line would be great. I think this would stream line the production process greatly and you could still add other sound files later in a 3rd party app if you desire. It woul...

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm a newbie myself when it comes to animation and i was asking some of the same questions you are about a month ago when i was wondering what animation package to use, let alone purchase. 1. FIRST, DO THE TUTORIALS NO MATTER HOW SIMPLE AND STUPID THEY LOOK! You...

No extraneous lines; was pretty much an oval. Like I said i was able to render the same shape with the color gradient i chose in a new project. I'm not going to loose any sleep over it! It was just a little test drawing with multiple layers. Wanted to start playing around with that. Just wondered if...

DK vs mkelley thing..... Didn't mean to stur the pot between you 2 guys. I didn't even read the whole article!; just glanced at it! The you vs him thing was just a little joke. I really don't care what the guy wrote, everyone has an opinion in this world; the older you get, the more you hear. I don'...

Not sure if anyone else is having this problem. First, running and iMac G5 with Leopard (should not be the issue with this bug, hmm) After adding a few vector layers 3 or 4 in a simple project I started working on a layer making a tree similar to the one in the tutuorial. When I go to use the create...

I think the biggest joke about the read is that the person used a computer and posted it on the internet! Why didn't he hand write it and publish it in the Times for everyone around the world to read. Just another butt head that wants to have his cake and eat it too! Mike

Quick update; I called the publisher and the manual was released on January 18, 2008 so it should be available. You can also order direct from the publishers web site. Cengage Learning; look under Course Technology and type in Anime Studio in the search window. Or here's a direct link to the manual ...

Don't shoot the messenger if it's not true but a store front called SAMY3 on amazon claims they have the AS manual in stock, who ever is interested. It says they are from Maryland. Take care: Mike. "BANG!"

Didn't mean to "ding" the founding fathers.... I like the program, and the forum. Just made an observation thats all; Even a downloadable PDF version would be very easy for them to do and a lot easier to browse the info and print what' pertinent. Just my opinion. I sent the same question t...

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Hey Gary, Mike here. I'm new to this animation stuff, also. Mid life crisis hobbies! Like your little animations. I kinda chuckled when i read your article because I stumbled upon the same book ( Cartoon Cool ), at Barnes and Nobles and bought it before reading your web page. I also recommend this t...

Started importing PNG transparent original drawings from photoshop. The output is like the original photoshop drawing when i RENDER the image or EXPORT the final movie but during the animation process in ASP all the images have a substantial pixilated edge look. Any way to cure this problem. It's ju...

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who took the time to respond to my question. Seems ASP is the way to go for a newbie after playing around with both programs. Thanks, Mike.

Laminar has the ticket!