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Growing Up Animating in Egypt
July 2008: Born in 1995, Aladdin Assem Abdul Fattah was 9 years old when he started using Toon Boom Studio. He now attends Al-Hedaya Language prep school in Egypt. Initally he worked with his older brother, drawing simple illustrations and animating them with Toon Boom Studio. “Later we decided to work separately to do our own animation. We tried a lot upgrading our animation using the features and simplicity of Toon Boom Studio. I love it so much because it makes it easy for me to do what I want and what I love doing," he commented.
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Animating paintings and beyond using Toon Boom Studio
June 2008: Wendy Wagner is an artist who works in painting, ceramics and animation. Her work encompasses humor, depth and whimsy. She has a degree in Visual Communications and has studied art her entire life. Using her computer graphics knowledge to painting skills, she has created a world of her own.
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Children’s Books Animated using Toon Boom Studio
May 2008: Baird Hoffmire has been working for August House as an illustrator/animator for five years and Tom Wrenn began about three years ago. They use Toon Boom Studio create 4-to-7 minute animations for their website www.StoryCove.com. These animations are based on folktales from around the world and serve as educational tools as well. Each animation has a companion book, activities, downloads and lesson plans that teachers like to use in a classroom setting. "Lip syncing alone saved us huge amounts of time. It turned hours worth of work plotting mouth positions into a few minutes of work," stated Tom.
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One "ToonBoomator" with great potential
April 2008: It is no doubt the best choice for a traditional animator searching for a friendly environment on digital platform. I have seen classical animators’ jaws drop during their initial days when I made them aware about Toon Boom Studio’s capabilities.
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Creating Health Campaigns Using Toon Boom Studio
March 2008: Based in Envigado, Colombia, Edwing Solórzano Pareja is a dedicated professional
and true animator. He founded ANIMATEAM® in 1998 to fully dedicate his time and talent to the creation of animation
for the educational sector, using his extensive experience to develop content adapted for the Latin market. "What
previously took us two months with four animators, a scan technician, a colourist, and an editing technician,
now takes us only one month with the participation of two graphic artists for the complete process,”
enthusiastically shared Edwing.
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Singing to the toon using Toon Boom Studio
March 2008: Martin Sercombe founded the video production company, Media Projects East in 1980. The company specializes in arts based educational work in schools and the community.
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Creating a Professional Student Portfolio using Toon Boom Studio
February 2008: Both Derek Rhodarmer, Dept. Chair for Media Arts and Animation and Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, and Thomas Biondolillo, College Faculty/Artist, Faculty for the Special Topics class, talk about how they produced the 2007 Teddy Project for the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Using Toon Boom Studio, this 3-minute project is a great showcase of 2D traditional, photo-based and cut-animation. "Many students like it very much and value the addition of a dedicated, industry studio-level software program to their bag of tricks," stated Thomas.
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Using a True Animation Tool to Animate
January 2008: Stephen Sloan was born in 1979, in Burlington, Ontario. He moved to Ottawa, Ontario to study animation at Algonquin College. Upon graduation, he started working in an animation studio. Stephen started using Toon Boom Harmony when he went to work for Mercury Filmworks. "I fell in love with the program and picked up the Studio version for myself. I've entered several competitions and created a web series using the software. (..)The reason I went ga-ga over Toon Boom when I started using it at Mercury was that, unlike Flash, it was an animation software designed FOR animation," he shared.
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