A new 2D Animation Software!

Animation Paper is a brand spankin' new 2D animation software that currently has an indiegogo campaign going on. The first release of the software will be for Mac with a Windows version to come later. It looks like a pretty sweet deal...

As stated on the indiegogo campaign page: "Enjoy drawing the rough blue lines over layers of red layouts, do keys and breakdowns, turn on your real time light table, quickly move drawings around, refine your x-sheet timing to perfection, clean up in smoothed black ink, zoomed in and rotated - and get the most beautiful hand drawn lines and expressive animation you can ever do. Feel your computer and tablet pen become a true extension of your creative self. Experience the freedom of animating without constraints. Animation Paper is going to be awesome!"

here’s the list of main features:

• Super fast responsiveness – while drawing, while flipping, while everything
• Quality lines – built on high speed, high resolution input from your tablet (like a Wacom)
• Small to large format frames
• Realtime smooth rotation and zooming of the view (and mirror) - controlled with gestures (pinch/rotate) or quick zoom function
• Light table (onion skinning – advanced and customizable)
• X-Sheet – easy, yet powerful timing and reuse (also scribbled notes and sound wave display)
• Layers (each layer colored black, blue, red, green or custom)
• Cutouts (easily reposition/rotate/scale drawings or parts of drawings)
• Clean up (smoothed lines)
• Paint (simple coloring with eyedropper and fill. May not be included in first release, but in free upgrade)
• Many alternative ways of flipping (keys, wheel, springy return flip, etc)
• Customizable Tool Bar and Quick Select (marking menu) for reaching favorite functions with a flick
  
• Realtime full frame reference on 2nd monitor
• Play scenes in sequence to check continuity
• Import and export of video and frame-stacks (including alpha and X-Sheet timing data)
• Native Mac OS X app (but also done natively for Windows, iPad and Android if stretch goals are reached)

Check out the campaign page:

Edge of Tomorrow

I saw Edge of Tomorrow on the big screen last night and it was AMAZING! I loved this movie! I thought the characters were fantastic, the whole premise was fresh and the film is super entertaining. Go see it while it's still in theaters! Check out this review.

I finished my Animsquad class!

Woo! After 12 weeks I've completed my Animsquad class! I learned that I have a lot to learn. Daniel Klug was my awesome amazing teacher. Here's his website where you can check out some of his great work.

As for the work I got done while taking this course, due to health reasons I wasn't able to spend as much time on my assignment as I would have liked so it still needs a good pass of polish before I share online.

As for future plans and goals, here are the ones I can think of for now:
-take a break and have some social life, do more exercising
-put Deanna Marsigliese interview online
-learn more French
-update blog more often
-polish 3D work I did for Animsquad and iAnimate