How can I possibly buy Anime Studio...?

Alonso · Post by **Alonso** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:11 am

If there are literally no shops selling to anyone that's not in or from the US?

I've tried around 7 or 8, and all of them either require me to be in the US or accuse me of fraud (preposterous?). I live in Mexico City, and I have used Moho for over a year.
Please tell me whether or not I should move on to flash or something else, because I'm supposed to have an introduction for a TV-show done in two weeks, and I can't even get started.

Thanks.

rylleman · Post by **rylleman** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:07 am

You can still use Moho for your presentation, the first version is of AS is pretty much the same as Moho 5.3 but with 100 dollars worth of japanese looking clip-art thrown in.
Mail E-frontier and ask them directly why they won't let you buy their product.

artfx · Post by **artfx** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:54 am

I'm curious as to what you were trying to do with it. I am new to AS too but I find it to be exactly what they promised. What didn't work for you?

myles · Post by **myles** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:55 am

Hello Alonso,

Have you tried ordering directly through the e-frontier site?

Otherwise, what rylleman said - contact e-frontier.
They say on their Web Store FAQs page:

Do you ship to my country?
We ship to all countries except those with trade sanctions in place with the United States and a few countries in the Middle East.

For readers:
Don't mind quesaco - he is currently frustrated and blowing off some steam - he admits in another thread he has only had Anime Studio for one day and is struggling to comprehend some SWF limitations. See this thread for more details. Hopefully as his problems are overcome he will have a different approach.

Regards, Myles.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:44 am

I'm sure e frontier is willing to sell you a copy of their product. Like Myles wrote, if you have a problem with finding a place to buy in your country, contact them.

Jus_Me · Post by **Jus_Me** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:08 pm

THIS GUY AND HIS BASHING OF THIS FINE PRODUCT IS REDICULOUS!

I never seen anywere(never been to e-frontier)that moho goes hand and hand with flash.If you have flash, You know you can animate with flash also right?
Jus open your characters up in corel, Save each arm/leg/mouth as individual pieces, Then save each piece as a .png, Open them in AS, Add some bones and wallah, ANIMATE!
Then expot it .swf, Or do some point animation to change the chest for breathing effect, Save it as chest_breath.png

It can be used with flash very effectivly, Just have to do some thinking

(SORRY THOUGHT THIS WAS A REPLY TO THE CALLING AS A PIECE A SH**)

SOMEHOW I ENDED UP IN WRONG THREAD

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:54 pm

I have two things to comment on here. When exporting from AS to Flash, mixing PNG files (or any bitmap) with bones is going to give you a lot of grief.
Secondly, a SWF file exported from AS can look fine -- until you try to import it into Flash. Then all kinds of things can look different (I have posted about this in the past).

J

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:19 pm

I guess the problem is, and this is a real problem for studios wanting to switch to AS, that if you have all your artwork in Flash format, you essentially have to redo everything in AS, because AS doesn't import SWF. Yes, there is the method of using AI import, and we all know what problems that can cause with excessive point counts, plus that your artwork goes through several export and import filters.

Let's face it, Flash is the industry standard, any descent animation program should at least be able to import SWF files. Shockwave Flash 7 is open source IIRC, so that shouldn't be the problem.

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:26 pm

jahnocli wrote: I have posted about this in the past

More like WE have all posted about this in the past.

I'm kind of glad i got my upgrade for free because i would've been pissed off to have paid money for literally no difference what so ever (oh wait, they changed the name, ahhh).

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:04 pm

Let's face it, Flash is the industry standard

It's not. It is wide-spread, but far from being a standard. From 100 Animators I know about 50 use it from time to time, but only 20 or so really create something final in it.
But of course Flash is the standard among Flash animators ...

, any descent animation program should at least be able to import SWF files. Shockwave Flash 7 is open source IIRC, so that shouldn't be the problem.

It is not. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swf , last part.

IsraelRN · Post by **IsraelRN** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:59 am

I'm from Mexico City and i bought Anime Studio Pro with no problem, the download version, of course...

Best Regards,
Israel RN

quesaco · Post by **quesaco** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:26 am

myles wrote:Hello Alonso,

Have you tried ordering directly through the e-frontier site?

Otherwise, what rylleman said - contact e-frontier.
They say on their Web Store FAQs page:

Do you ship to my country?
We ship to all countries except those with trade sanctions in place with the United States and a few countries in the Middle East.
For readers:
Don't mind quesaco - he is currently frustrated and blowing off some steam - he admits in another thread he has only had Anime Studio for one day and is struggling to comprehend some SWF limitations. See this thread for more details. Hopefully as his problems are overcome he will have a different approach.

Regards, Myles.

Hi Myles, hi everybody,

In fact I already have cleared up everything with Mike Clifton (he is really a nice guy), and you all can know what really happened (and how had a happy ending) here:
http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6974

Regards,

Yan Kleber
"que saco"

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:42 am

slowtiger wrote:
, any descent animation program should at least be able to import SWF files. Shockwave Flash 7 is open source IIRC, so that shouldn't be the problem.
It is not. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swf , last part.

Heck, I and my recollections. Well, it should have been OS'ed. Stupid and shortsighted, Adobe

And about that industry standard, I meant to write: "Adobe Flash is the industry standard design tool for digital design and web programming." Of course, it's not the industry standard for the animation industry as a whole, not by a long shot.