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From Clay to Computers: Mixing Animation Mediums
Dec 2006: Luc Otter was born in France, studied visual arts in Strasbourg and animation at La Cambre
in Brussels. He is accomplished in both traditional and computer animation and has over 10 years experience in the field.
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Bringing Paintings to Life with Toon Boom Studio
Dec 2006: Wendy Wagner has a painting studio in her home, so she often hops back and forth between
painting, sculpting and animating. "Even though I am using completely different tools," she says, "I think the imagery
translates marvellously from one application to the other."
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Animation in the Church Community
Dec 2006: Nik Nilsson is the creative coordinator at Heritage Mountain Community Church in Port
Moody, British Columbia. Nik has found humor to be the single most effective tool for reaching people; laughter opens
the mind and allows the writer heaping dollops of inspiration.
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Real World Tools
Dec 2006: Mike Tracy began his animation career at Disney as a layout artist on Fantasia 2000,
Emperor’s New Groove and Beauty & the Beast. As a freelancer he worked on several TV productions doing layout,
workbook and lighting guides.
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Dreaming of an Animation Career at 13.
Nov 2006: He is 13, very talented and has a great sense of humor. Fraser Page wishes to create an
animated film that makes its way into the theatres. He is definitely on the right path to becoming a rising star in
the animation business.
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Animating is Easy with Toon Boom Studio.
Nov 2006: Zac Susnara and Alex Jimenez have shared a love of animation since attending the same
elementary school in Sacramento, California. Both men have always dreamed of starting their own animation studio.
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Create Animation Easily, Efficiently and Quickly.
Nov 2006: Jim DeVivo is a musician, composer and artist. He is the Head Production Designer of
IMP Independent Media Productions, taking care of full-scale music productions, animations, and web design.
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Toon Boom Studio, the Tool to Animate Biblical Scriptures Easily.
Oct 2006: "People seem to really pay better attention both to the Scripture reading and the sermon
itself. Toon Boom Studio allows me to work quickly and look like a pro even though I am a total novice at animation."
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3D Sceneplanning and Lip Sync Mapping Make the Difference.
Oct 2006: "Studio is definitely a great program and a must have for any animator or studio. It
provides certain features which aren’t available in Flash that are a necessity to the serious animator."
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Toon Boom Studio ... Create Animation Easily, Efficiently and Quickly.
Oct 2006: "My productivity is much higher with Toon Boom Studio as opposed to using Flash. You don’t
have to plan as much for setting up camera shots. Changes and additions to the animation don’t require redoing whole scenes."
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... the Tool of Choice when Creating Traditional Animation.
Sept 2006: "Toon Boom Studio was easy to understand, after using the tutorials, so producing what
I wanted was not a difficult task."
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Animating Illustrations with Toon Boom Studio.
Sept 2006: "I produced my traditionally animated thesis film using Toon Boom Studio for several
steps of the process. Though I used many other programs, Toon Boom Studio played a major role."
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Toon Boom Studio and the Wacom Cintiq: The Perfect Studio in a Box.
Sept 2006: "Before we used a combination of software to achieve the same results [...], which
was rather complicated and tedious. Now it is all done in Toon Boom Studio."
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Fast Learning Curve with Toon Boom Studio.
Sept 2006: Pam Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan and graduated from the Fu Jen Catholic University, Major
in Applied Art. She worked continuously in the 2D and 3D animation field for over thirteen years, as an animator for
commercial film and video game production, and as a trainer and teacher for 2D (Toon Boom Studio/Harmony) and 3D animation
(Houdini).
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Toon Boom Studio and the Wacom Cintiq, a Perfect Studio in a Box.
Sept 2006: "When I combined Toon Boom Studio with a Cintiq, the speed of production went through the roof."
- Roger Scott, Artist/Cartoonist/Director/Writer/ad nauseum, Roger and Company
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Toon Boom Studio Delivers on Productivity and Quality.
July 2006: "Toon Boom Studio allowed me to make cartoons quickly and easily. That wasn't really possible
before it came along." - Ken Gorrie, Artist, Animation Research Ltd., Taylormade Media, The Video Factory
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Toon Boom Studio Delivers on Productivity and Quality.
July 2006: "Without Toon Boom Studio, I wouldn’t have been able to create my last product. It wasn’t just
helpful, it was critical." - Jerrett Lloyd Farmer, Technical Art Director, Self-employed
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Toon Boom Studio, a Versatile Tool to Create Quality Animations.
July 2006: "It always amazes me when I have talked to other people who just use Flash and are always
whining about the time it takes. When I mention Toon Boom Studio and what I have created in minimal time frames they are
blown away!" - Patrick Cannon
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Toon Boom Studio, Perfect for Creative Commercial Productions
July 2006: "I found Toon Boom Studio to be extremely easy to use and liberating in the sense that I didn´t
really need to think about technical issues and could focus on the artistic side completely." - Adam Marko-Nord, \
Director, Producer, Animator - Alhpaville AB
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Toon Boom Studio, Perfect for Creating Animated Population.
June 2006: "Toon Boom Studio provides a user-friendly and practical environment, especially with the
lip sync tools and the impressive camera moves—a very nice entry-level software to discover the animation world."
- Paul Lhoir
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Toon Boom Studio Makes a Leap into Adult Animation.
June 2006: "Toon Boom Studio gives me speed. Now I can very quickly prepare new episodes and draw
new scenes." - Piotr Wojciechowski
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Toon Boom Studio, the Tool to Create Cut-Out Animation Quickly.
June 2006: "Since my goal is to produce a new cartoon every couple weeks, I need a fast, efficient way
to pound-out humorous situations, and Toon Boom Studio's cut-out animation capabilities are perfect for that."
- Brandon Ray, Filmmaker, video editor, animator
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When Pegging Rhymes with Savings in High-Quality WebSite Creation.
May 2006: "The instant gratification of seeing my drawings move and watching my characters come to life
without the pain of drawing each frame traditionally really made me a fan of Toon Boom Studio."
- Laura Giorgi, Animator, Presentek Inc.
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The Ideal Tool to Create and Produce High Quality Animation Efficiently.
April 2006: "Certain tasks were tedious and long to do traditionally, such as inking and painting,
and creating inbetweens. I can now do them 80% faster in Toon Boom Studio." - Carlos Eduardo Alves Ramirez
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Toon Boom Studio Make Fast-Paced, Eye-Catching Animations.
April 2006: "I think Toon Boom Studio’s ability to recreate natural pen strokes separates it from
other vector animation tools like Flash and Illustrator." - Curt Rierson
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From School Projects to TV Animation with Toon Boom Studio.
April 2006: "With Toon Boom Studio, the efficiency is just incredible one can impressively meet dead
lines in time to revise and correct one’s project." - Delight Tafadzwa Tarumbwa
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Independent Animator Improves Animation Productivity.
April 2006: As a professional artist, James Bradrick needs to develop animations quickly since well
drawn animation is always very labor intensive.
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Smooth Bike Riding with Toon Boom Studio.
April 2006: "Being able to control which drawing I want to use at a point in the timeline with
the Properties Panel. This beats anything I could do in Flash hands down." - Robert Campbell
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Toon Boom Studio Ideal to Create Learning Material.
April 2006: "I create math, science, art and music cartoons for a child learning series. Toon Boom
Studio is a full animation package that enables me to produce my projects faster and with higher quality."
- Richard Robles
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Toon Boom Case Study - Ralph Bakshi
April 2006: With 53 years of experience in the animation industry, Ralph Bakshi has an impressive
track record. He worked on a remarkable number of features, TV series and specials – all based on hand-drawn animation.
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Toon Boom Studio and Adobe Products Make Dreams Come True.
March 2006: "I created my first comic strip at age nine and over the years developed the characters and
story lines based on growing up in San Jose, CA and traveling throughout North America by car. I’ve always been a big fan of
animation and hope to bring my ideas to life through the medium in the form of our flash cartoon Dum inc."
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Toon Boom Studio Enables Animators to Do It All
March 2006: "Toon Boom Studio is a miracle to me. The fact that it only costs me a few hundred dollars
was another miracle. Also of course the vector images are ultimately more versatile and reusable." -- Jim Bradrick.
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Toon Boom Studio Keeps an Animated Beat for Brad Paisley.
Feb 2006: Brad has been playing music since he was eight years old and got into animation only
later on. For his previous album, Mud on the Tires, Brad played an instrumental piece with the band, and his first
cartoon running behind them on the big screens was a big hit.
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Easy to use Makes Deadlines a Breeze with Toon Boom Studio.
Feb 2006: Pascal Blais is a Montreal-based production studio working with some of the industry’s
most talented animation artists, each lending their own gifted vision to the craft of making television commercials and
other animated content.
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Toon Boom Studio in the Bakshi School.
Jan 2006: Jess Gorell is an artist and educator originally from Arlington, Massachusetts. Her photographs
have appeared in several magazines and been shown in galleries on the East and West Coasts as well as in private collections.
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Animating Illustrations with Toon Boom Studio.
Jan 2006: Diane Paterson has written and illustrated over fifty books for children. She is also a
painter (as Diane Mannion) and maintains a studio gallery along with her husband. John Mannion designs and builds
art furniture.
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Toon Boom Studio and Final Cut Pro Make a Great Team.
Jan 2006: At 32 years old, Ionone Bangcas is a graduate of the University of San Carlos in Cebu City,
Philippines with a degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Advertising Arts.
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Toon Boom Case Study - Jaime Luis Hernandez
Jan 2006: Jaime Luis Hernandez has been involved in Art Education for 18 years at Immokalee High School,
Florida. He has also been creating art with various media for the past 25 years, including illustrating and marketing
children’s art.
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