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| | Features | Anime Studio Debut 7 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiastsCreate your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint, and fill tools;Or easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fastRecord your own sound clips inside Anime Studio with integrated Audio Recording and make your characters talk with built-in Lip SyncingExport to the most popular web and video formats, or upload and share on YouTube or Facebook directly from within Anime StudioPoint-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation
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| | Description | Animation & Cartoons | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.5 inches | | Product Width: | 5.4 inches | | Product Height: | 1.39 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.25 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.6 inches | | Package Width: | 5.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 114 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows Vista / Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard / Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger / Windows 7 / Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard / Windows XP | | Media: | CD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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129 of 138 found the following review helpful:
 Real winner! Sep 16, 2010
By D. Vance
"NinjaKnittingGramma"
So, I read some of the other reviews. And, obviously they are from people who really know and understand computer animation.
Not me! I know absolutely ZIPPO about computer animation. What I DO know is that this program is a blast! It's very simple to use, intuitive, and makes ME feel like I understand how to create animation!
I would go much more into detail, however my 12 yr old granddaughter saw this and took it home with her! She sat down with her laptop in my living room, and within 10 minutes was creating much better animation that I had done. She absolutely LOVES it! This would make an awesome gift for a teen.
It's not a professional program, nor is it meant to be. But as an introduction to the joys of computer animation, it completely succeeds.
39 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 Flash lite Sep 24, 2010
By Dinubabear
The tutorial on this is very good, and it will have you making flash-like 2D cartoons in a few hours. It is more limited than Adobe Flash, but is easier to learn in my opinion, because of this. And it is very affordable instead of spending hundreds of dollars for real Flash. The "bones & joints" to articulate the carton figures are very nice and make animating a lot easier.
Realize that nothing will provide you with patience and artistic talent, and both are required for making cartoons in any medium. But if you want to see if you can make popular internet cartoons, I would buy this to find out, instead of investing a lot, only to find that you think it is too much work.
131 of 154 found the following review helpful:
 The Spiderman Project: Anime Studio Debut 7: A Critical Review Sep 23, 2010
By Andre Lawrence
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R11QOOTVY1JUPA * Pre-review comments
** Installation, Inspection and Tech Support (or, lack thereof)
*** Spiderman
**** Conclusion
* Almost a year ago, I received and reviewed Anime Studio Debut 6. At the time, I mentioned that it was an entry-level animation software that was a good buy despite its limitations and high learning curve.
I mentioned that ASD was, in my opinion, a strip-down version of Adobe's Flash and Illustrator software but at "95% off." What they needed to do, I suggested, was to simplify the interface and provide proper tutorials on how the software works because the 3 two-minute tutorials were woefully insufficient. They did somewhat better this time offering two instruction manuals in pdf and a series of vignette tutorials on what the tools do. Herein lies the problem. Unless you're into silly nonsense like dancing stars and bouncing balls, you don't have any clue as to what the program can do. So, this year I decided to take a very big leap to see just how well the software works in connection with what they ("Smith Micro") say their product can do. I gave myself a small project: to make a 3 minute cartoon. The software totes itself as being able to make traditional 2D cartoons as well as "jig jag" -- a mixture of photographs and illustrations. The software DOESN'T work as it should. This cartoon is basically what I had in mind if I could just use Anime Studio alone. Since it's incapable of utilizing jpg's, and only has one (1) audio channel, I was forced to use four other softwares to get close to what I thought ASD-7 should do by itself.
** I installed the software and didn't do any work on it for a week while I poured over the User Manual and the Quick Start Guide and video tutorials. I took extensive notes on my newsprint pad as I sketched out how the story would look. I collected jpg's, sound files, recorded actor's voice-overs (at my expense) in the meantime. I also started sketching out the characters.
One of the things I initially found exciting was that the software can allow you to import various image, sound and movie files and afterwards export them in a number of different formats including a .mov file and an .flv file. The software DOESN'T handle all of these formats flawlessly nor was there any explanation offered as to why it doesn't.
One of the problems I got stuck on was the transition from one image to another. "Peter Parker" is recovering from a devastating fight with "The Green Goblin." He's at the point in his life where he knows he has to decide is he going to continue being a superhero or is he going to settle down and have a normal life with his on-again/ off-again girlfriend, Mary-Jane ("MJ") Watson? For that initial deliberation, I imagined him in his bedroom recovering, but I wanted to see and hear him thinking about his choices. A simple transition from sitting on the bed to walking to the window was all that's called for. For almost two weeks (I still have the movie files for my records, btw) I was unable, through the user manual and unfortunately by tech support to understand WHY doesn't a jpg image make a simple transition ("dissolve") into the other. That is a standard in slideshow formatting. The software is supposed to offer two (2) different ways in which to accomplish this. One, (after importing all images at Frame 0), setting keyframes at the respective places and, after opening the layer menu, adjusting the Visibility setting. This should, according to the User Manual, show a change in transition at the desired point. Another way is to use the Opacity setting. If you set the opacity at 100% and at a later keyframe, set Opacity at 0 (keeping the Visibility column checked), you'd see a gradual invisibility happen while the visibility of the image on the second later begins to appear concurrently. But this never happened.
Repeated calls to Tech Support resulted in a waste of cellphone minutes. Let me make a recommendation that will be of some support. Chris Georgenes produces a series of books about animation that is cross-software How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS5: The Art of Design and Animation . It is phenomenal. Originally produced as an accompaniment for Adobe Flash, it shows you the basics through very complex exercises that can be done with competent software, so even entry-level softwares wouldn't be a problem. DON'T buy into Smith Micro's ploy to get you to buy lessons or a book that they're producing for the software. They haven't fulfilled their basic obligation as it is.
BTW, reading other reviewers' experiences with ASD and tech support, my situation is not unique.
*** SPIDERMAN
After I had drafted out the storyline and created a storyboard for the project, I was disappointed that ASD7 was unable to do a simple, seamless transition between layers. This, after changing the jpg images to the identical png made no difference. So, I used the following software to get the effects of the animation.
Anime Studio Debut 7 (for lip synching, although the mouth in one scene had a life of its own!)
Adobe Photoshop CS3. (for image creation.)
iPhoto 09/ iTunes (For sequencing. After I created the slideshow, I brought it into ASD and added voice and lip-synching. iTunes enabled me to take a voice file and save it as an mp3, which then went into ASD.)
Audacity (for audio mixing. ASD and AS Pro only allow you 1 channel for audio. I thought about a particular scene, for instance, in Mary Jane's living room. I thought about her in the shower getting ready for the date while having music play in the living room and the phone starts to ring. So, I mixed the sound of the shower along with the music and telephone and Audacity mixed it into a single audio file that I just uploaded into ASD.) By the way, Audacity is free!
iMovie 09. After I created all of the episodes from ASD and iPhoto, I was able to assemble it all here and add the closing credits.
21 days +300 file folder items +1 GB of storage + 1 week of frustrating conversations with Smith Micro = a lot of fun, nonetheless.
**** Pro's and Con's
Pro's
+ Software is relatively inexpensive. (But if you're able to hold off and buy during the end of the year holiday season, the price of the software drops to less than half of retail.)
+ Much, more instruction provided when compared to ASD 6.
+ Installation was less than 3 minutes
+ Simple vector (not bitmap/jpg) based animation when used with Bones and Voice tool really does work fine.
+ Best suited for teenagers.
+ Separate Mac and Windows installation cd's.
Con's
- Software's layer capacity DOESN'T work well with non vector-based/ png images.
- Interface is still too crowded and is in desperate need of a make-over. The pale grey theme and tool icons look a bit too childish for a paid product.
- Tech support is, as other reviewers correctly stated, disinclined to directly answer questions without bringing up that there's a teaching fee for "that" information.
- On the Spiderman project, the audio effects the position of the mouth and occasionally, despite no keyframing, the mouth moves as high the nose when a character is talking.
- Only 1 audio track. (There should be at least 5.)
Considering everything the product is worth 2.5 stars.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Not for everyone, but a great tool for artists Nov 19, 2010
By Dustin
I've been tinkering with this program for a couple of weeks and have decided it's just not for me. It's too difficult for me to make a great animation.
The program isn't at fault. You can set joints and manipulate them, there are included textures and body parts and mouths, and it's very straightforward to move, frame by frame (similar to an audio editor like Audacity) and change what each of these segments do. There are a couple of samples that make it pretty easy to tell how to pace.
However, very little of the animating is automated. You have to painstakingly adjust what your characters are doing.
I also have Adobe Flash, so I want to note that it's quite clear Anime Studio Debut 7 is a much easier and straightforward way to make cartoons. But you still have to do quite a bit of work to get results that are anywhere near the demonstrations. It will take time. Don't buy this program expecting it to be a piece of cake... buy this program expecting it to make it possible for you to animate. This program's main benefit is that it takes much less skill. You don't really need any computer skill beyond the most basic... you just need patience. Imagine you have a stop motion camera and some models that you need to manipulate from frame to frame. This serves as extremely good and easy to make models. You still have to do the manipulation.
The program was reliable and I think it's fun to use. Don't interpret my remarks as negative... this is great software. Just keep your expectations realistic.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 only 2 minutes Dec 07, 2010
By Aaron Smith
i bought asd7 and was really excited when it got to me. i was pleased with the easy interface and easy to follow tutorial. what i was very disappointed with was the limitations of the program. while asd7 is not a profesional program i was expecting to be able to make cartoons, not 2 min shorts. the program maxes out it's frame capacity at 3000 frames which is about 2 mins of animation. the only place you will get this info is on the smithmicro website. i personally feel this limitation is not mentioned by the company(smithmicro) everywhere they sell asd7 because then no one would buy it. if you have a child that wants to see what animation is all about then spend the $40. otherwise spent the money on Adobe.
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