Howdy!
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 3:09 pm
Hey AS forum folks,
Thought I'd say a quick hello and let you all know I'm not a forum-haunting bot! While I've been doing motion graphic work for quite a while and spend most of my professional days in the After Effects world, I'm just picking up Anime Studio and have some fairly ambitious plans I'd like to chase with it. I've always enjoyed drawing and love the freedom of expression, the creative possibilities that animation (in all of its many forms) can offer. I looked into Toonboom packages (have a copy of TB studio), but it looked like ASP was going to offer me more of what I wanted at a price far more competitive than the upscale TB software.
I first became aware of ASP back when it was Moho when I encountered some videos done by a Russian gentleman called Pasha Egorov. At the time I was recording an album of pop/rock music and thought some of his treatments would work well on videos for some of my material, but right and left turns prevented me from getting into it at that time.
I'm still crossing that gulf from the world of Adobe tools and interfaces to the ASP way, and it's been a little challenging finding tutorials that work well for me. I finally discovered Mark Bremmer's video tuts for ASP 9 (available on Safari Books Online), and those are currently working the best for me. I really appreciate that he also seems to have come from an Adobe background and calls out the quirks in ASP as he sees them - every software package has them and I find that approach clear and helpful. He seems to cover the features comprehensively, but knowing what and where your clothes are is never the same as dressing yourself!
ASP looks like a great program, and I'm confident it will do what I'm looking for, but as a new initiate to this software, it really does take a while to figure out the subtle differences between available platforms. There are plenty of analogies to After Effects functions, but at least as many that represent an entirely new workflow. Always learning!
So, thanks to all of you who contribute here- this forum is an invaluable resource!
Cheers,
Matt
Thought I'd say a quick hello and let you all know I'm not a forum-haunting bot! While I've been doing motion graphic work for quite a while and spend most of my professional days in the After Effects world, I'm just picking up Anime Studio and have some fairly ambitious plans I'd like to chase with it. I've always enjoyed drawing and love the freedom of expression, the creative possibilities that animation (in all of its many forms) can offer. I looked into Toonboom packages (have a copy of TB studio), but it looked like ASP was going to offer me more of what I wanted at a price far more competitive than the upscale TB software.
I first became aware of ASP back when it was Moho when I encountered some videos done by a Russian gentleman called Pasha Egorov. At the time I was recording an album of pop/rock music and thought some of his treatments would work well on videos for some of my material, but right and left turns prevented me from getting into it at that time.
I'm still crossing that gulf from the world of Adobe tools and interfaces to the ASP way, and it's been a little challenging finding tutorials that work well for me. I finally discovered Mark Bremmer's video tuts for ASP 9 (available on Safari Books Online), and those are currently working the best for me. I really appreciate that he also seems to have come from an Adobe background and calls out the quirks in ASP as he sees them - every software package has them and I find that approach clear and helpful. He seems to cover the features comprehensively, but knowing what and where your clothes are is never the same as dressing yourself!
ASP looks like a great program, and I'm confident it will do what I'm looking for, but as a new initiate to this software, it really does take a while to figure out the subtle differences between available platforms. There are plenty of analogies to After Effects functions, but at least as many that represent an entirely new workflow. Always learning!
So, thanks to all of you who contribute here- this forum is an invaluable resource!
Cheers,
Matt