2D
Animation FlipBook is the only 2D animation software that
is designed entirely from the ground up to do 2D animation
the way professional animators are used to doing it. That's
why the professional animators at every major animation
studio and the teachers at the best animation schools demand
FlipBook. Other programs may be alright if all you want to
do is ink & paint but animators use FlipBook.
3D
Animation FlipBook helps 3D animators do
better animation faster. It's much faster to sketch your key
frames and work out your timing in FlipBook than to spend
time posing complicated rigs. In FlipBook you can adjust the
timing of your key frames with real-time feedback. Directors
and teachers can sketch right over your key poses to show
you how to improve the animation. Then you can import
your scenes into any 3D package to use as reference so
you only have to pose your models once. That way you only have to
deal with the complexity of your 3D package in what
becomes your final clean-up stage.
Stop
Motion Animation
Stop Motion may be the easiest way to do animation and FlipBook is great for stop
motion too. Just aim your camera and start clicking.
FlipBook's onion skin feature lets you
see the previous frame while you're posing the next frame.
And to really get a feel for the movement, you can step back through the previous frames and
then forward
into the live image. You can even play the scene in
real-time, pausing on the live image to see how it will look
and you can drop out the background and replace it with
anything you want.
Learn
to Animate
DigiCel has teamed
up with JasonRyanAnimation.com
to create a new online animation school called ianimate.net.
The purpose of the school is to train animators to produce
feature quality animation in the shortest amount of
time, without having to mortgage their future. All of our
instructors are currently working in major studios, and can
teach the students what they need to learn. Beyond the
standard principles of animation, our students will learn
the work flow that professional animators use and to
previsualize their shots in FlipBook and bring their
performances to feature film quality in Maya. Previsualizing
like this is a major benefit because it helps the students
understand animation frame by frame and it helps them get
their vision of the scene in front of the director faster.
That way if the director likes it, they’re that much further
ahead and if it isn’t what he wanted, then less time was
lost.
