This is a thread for Ken, whose post in another thread (regarding what to expect in this business) could easily make him a motivational speaker. This question has been asked in General a lot here but I would like your oppinion: What do you use for 2D software? I have Flash MX but I am also looking at TV Paint. I also took a peek at Flip book, but I don't think I could get use to that veritcal X sheet. Your input is appreciated along with your wisdom and insight. Thanks.
Ken Davis is a rude fucking piece of shit, he is nothing but a fake.
Lol close thread.
Explain how he is a fake? His adivce has always been to the point and filled with experince, just becuase someone tells you your idea is bad does not mean they are "fake" or rude. Seems like you are just plain immature
Diesel-
I don't animate anymore, instead I do storyboards. I've got Storyboard Pro, Sketchbook and Photoshop........I use/prefer Photoshop CS3 for storyboarding because of the tool-set and what I can do with it. I can use the others, and do occasionally, but Photoshop is what I go to.
In x-sheets, originally X-sheets were done on 11x17" paper sheets, oriented vertically. reading them that way IS traditional.
But as far as 2D software, best advice is try them out and see what gives you the results you want.
For me, maybe Photoshop is too clunky--maybe too slow to use, but I'm familiar with it and I have ( more or less) a muscle/mental memory in place using it.
I can switch to the other software, but I have to relearn how to use them all over again and that takes time. For now, I stick with what I know and what works.
Keep in mind this; EVERYONE looks for the "magic tool"--myself included.
They don't really exist.
Oh, it can be argued that a Cintiq is pretty magical, and maybe a couple of brush-pens are pretty snazzy and there's some 3-ply paper that is just..................well, they all end up being more or less just a kind of "interface", a means to the end-expression. I bought some PITT pens because a talented comic-book artist uses them, and I actually have the delusion that MAYBE with these pens I could possibly, maybe, hopefully, hypothetically draw just like them. It'd be "magic" indeed. I'm fooling myself to a degree, but it's also the talent in one's hands and head that determine what comes out on screen or paper.
Whatever tool you use, use it boldly and without fear. And if it's not working for you.......try something else.
"We all grow older, we do not have to grow up"--Archie Goodwin ( 1937-1998)