Follow Path Tool: Both Anime Studio Debut 7 and Anime Studio Pro 7 have a tool you can use called FOLLOW PATH. It allows you to have something in your scene follow an invisible (or visible, if you wanted) path. Why would you use the follow path tool? A good example where this would come [...]
How do I upload to YouTube? Anime Studio Pro, at least versions 6 and 7 (I don’t know about the others) have the ability to directly upload to YouTube and Facebook. It’s as easy as just clicking File>Upload to YouTube, and then choosing an already rendered animation clip. It will give you a chance to verify that [...]
“In the characters that I have from you there are men walking to me, but they are also visible from the sides etc. Every time when I set up a project with a man for example walking to me from far away all goes well until I want to switch to the man walking from the side. [...]
How to draw Chowder from Cartoon Network This isn’t so much a tutorial on how to draw him as it is a tutorial on how to animate him like they do. I don’t mean to be misleading, but if I named my post, “How to make chowder,” I’d have 100,000 New Englanders on my site looking [...]
How to get started in Anime Studio: Here’s an Anime Studio question I got from a user, and this is probably one of the most asked Anime Studio question, ever. In Anime Studio Debut 7, how do you make a character? ( Is there like a certain area where you make the character ) Do I [...]
View these Anime Studio Tutorials in high definition. Why does my Anime Studio character warp when adding bones? An http://www.animationtrainer.com subscriber sent me this character, which had become badly warped when he added bones to it. He’s graciously allowed me to use it in this tutorial, so everyone can know how to fix or avoid [...]
As a newcomer to Anime Studio Debut 7 I’m trying to make a camera movement within my project. How do I get the camera to move at a point part way through the film? At present any movement is applied from frame 0, which is not what I want. – Rod W. Anime Studio Camera [...]
I’m having problems with the Auto-stroke Tool: HI Eric, Ive got a problem with my AS 7 PRO. Everytime i make a character i have this issue with the strokes. Im doing my characters without the strokes for a more cleaner lkooking character. But now after a few days i cannot get rid of the [...]
New use of Anime Studio 7 Pro Physics Engine I thought everyone might want to check this out. Battle of the Sexes Game The video test on this site (easy to find) used AS7 to make the animation portion of the video. Even cooler is the use of the new physics engine and the rotate on [...]
What is the best mouth switch layer setup in Anime Studio? In my opinion, the best way to do a cartoon character’s mouth is by using GROUP LAYERS (or BONE LAYERS for Anime Studio Debut users) that contain the phoneme mouth shapes. By using GROUP LAYERS, I can separate my mouth’s teeth from the rest [...]
How do I import a mouth switch layer for my cartoon character in Anime Studio? Importing stuff is easy. There’s actually a lot of animation content that comes with Anime Studio. The video tutorial above will show you how to import one of the mouths, complete with audio sync phoneme switch layers, into your animation [...]
How to make a cartoon nose in Anime Studio: This brief video Anime Studio tutorial shows how to make a nose for your cartoon character. Be sure to place the nose between the correct layers of the character. You want your mouth switch layers to go behind your nose (under it in the layers tree) and [...]
What does the DUPLICATE LAYER TOOL in Anime Studio Pro or Debut do? As you may have guessed, the DUPLICATE LAYER TOOL will copy the layer you currently have selected in your layers tree. How do I use the DUPLICATE LAYER TOOL in Anime Studio Debut or Pro? Highlight the layer you want to duplicate by clicking [...]
What does the SCALE BONES TOOL do? The SCALE BONES TOOL allows you to resize your bone and the corresponding parts attached to it, but it only works in an animation. If you’re on frame zero, it’s inactive. Notice how I’m on frame zero in the above picture and it’s gray in color, but once [...]
What are styles in Anime Studio Pro? Styles are a way to edit your animation content very fast. For example, let’s say you created a cartoon character that 100 different body parts that were skin colored. His hand switch layers, face, nose, eyelids, etc. for all different angles of your character. Let’s say you want [...]
