Hi, I'm an old school 2d artist (pigments, canvas, ect) new to animation. I'm using Toonboom Studio 8.1 on a Macbook Pro 15" . The laptop has the minimum 256 for the graphics, and I've created a number of short animated works importing png images and using the rotate tools, as well as stop motion. BUT, when I draw a basic figure, rig it with bones, and try to animate it past the second key frame, the program crashes. Tech Support says I might not have enough power in my graphics pac. I don't want to have to buy a new computer just to animate my drawings, so, whats the best program for the computer I have?
Is your computer a i7 and is your computer running on the latest OS. What graphic card are you running. Compare all of this with the requirement for your software.
Yes, it is the i7, I'm running Mavericks, as I'm undecided about Yosemite. Macbooks don't really have a "card' per se, but it's the 256mb. TB tech support says thats enough for kid stiff, but the bones program chews up alot of memory. It could be me entering faulty commands that causes the crash, but that doesn't address the issue of having to click multiple times to perform an enabled fuction. ie; draw, or adding/connecting/ manipulating bones. I have tried a number of times, following the user's manual step by step, but when I get to that 2nd key frame it shuts down.
I looked briefly at Anime Studio 11 and want to find out more.