Oh wow thanks a lot Slowtiger!!!
You have seen it just right : most 24fps frame-by-frame sequences were made with H12 indeed, and imported as specific layers into ASP. Not all of them, however : several were drawn on paper/lightbox too, such as the ones with the captain/boat for instance, as well as most of the 12fps ones with the dog & bunny, sea shore backgrounds, birds and a couple others.
(This one finally got discarded)
All sequences involving rigged characters/elements were made in ASP of course, and the credits were written with ASP’s freehand drawing tool as well, which I find a little less convenient and accurate for color drawings — or should I say, with which I am not familiar enough yet, in addition to the fact that I still find the paint bucket fills/refills slightly approximate.
Every scene however was set up in ASP, and exported into various layer comps (another tremendously convenient feature), themselves edited/mixed in Final Cut Pro 7.
This very video turned out as a kind of hingepoint for me, in terms of workflow : even though still relying to ASP
since 2007 (and I do intend to keep it that way, ASP is too cool and handy), with a slightly different approach for every new piece of work, this vid was my first time with two very complementary animation apps instead of one (in addition to the lightbox of course), and it has proved a good balance for me so far. I am however pretty confident that ASP will improve as a frame-by-frame tool, which may still lead me to switch techniques again (and I love that).
It has to be said that I have been practising a lot to improve my knowledge of ASP for 2 years — especially regarding character rigging, which I had somehow neglected for a while, out of the frustration of not being able to combine frame-by-frame AND vector animation. Those attempts led to an
online lab with random exercises, work-in-progress snippets and excerpts of commissioned animations. I also now build up most of my illustrations with ASP, as though ready-to-animate scenes, thanks to
this other training place, with
some short animated extents, and even an
animated work-in-progress, haha!
I would by the way strongly suggest every novice and/or self-taught animator to create such a place for themselves, as it does prove very rewarding in terms of learning and improvement. As true as it is for everything else of course, I will add to the choir assessing that the secret of animation is not only "concentration", but a HELL amount of work and passion. Let’s rock folks!
However thanks again for your kind and encouraging feedback!
