Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #518 in Software
• Brand: Smith Micro Software Inc.
• Released on: 2009-07-13
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English

Manufacturer's Description
Anime Studio Debut 6
Create Your Own Cartoons and Animations

Complete Animation for Digital Artists - The fun, quick and affordable way to create animations, Anime Studio is the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts.

Create and Import Content - Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint and fill tools. Easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast!

Bone Rigging Saves Time - Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation.

Advanced Timeline Control - Inverse Kinematics moves your character naturally between keyframes for smooth animations. Add sound, special effects, and preview in real time with multiple layers to edit your animation

Share Everywhere - Export your creations to the most popular web and video formats supported by FaceBook and MySpace, or upload your animation directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio.

Anime Studio Debut Gets You Started Right Away!

Free Characters - Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vectorbased characters you can use for your own animations.

Import Your Art - Import your own illustrations or create unique characters for your cartoons. Animate anything within the reach of your imagination.

Free Tutorials - Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio’s powerful features and get you animating right away.

Bring Photos to Life - Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Customer Reviews

Anime Studio "Debut 6" 2D animation software: A Critical Review
*First impression
**How the program works/ comparison to Adobe Flash & Illustrator
***Additional on-line material recommendations
****Pro's and Con's
*****Final impression

*There seems to be a never-ending supply of 2D vector-based animation softwares competing for our
artistic dollars. And, from a casual look at quite a few of them, they all are pretty similar
in producing South Park-quality movies. The more recent seems to be geared toward
emulating Manga graphics, however.

Anime Studio "Debut" is the novice/ intermediate version of their professional version,
Anime Studio "Pro." Although I've always loved animation and have wanted for quite
sometime to take my illustrations and incorporate them into a movie form, I just didn't
have the time to investigate where and what would be a fitting investment for me. And,
like Poser 8 that I just received, both programs and a slew of similar titles in both 2D
animation (Anime Studio) and 3D animation (Poser), were produced by SmithMicro.
What I found with both titles and especially Anime Studio is that the interface is crowded.
It seems as if it is a company wide decision to put all of the tabs and settings and drop
down configuration right on the opening/ default screen. This makes it, visually, a little
intimidating and reinforces the notion that these programs have a very high learning curve
to use all of the functions that are available. Is there a way to have all of the functions but
not crowding out the workspace? Well, yes. Adobe's done a great job of redesigning a
minimalist interface that allows one to go to the header and engage just the desirable
options. If there are too many and space is a premium, with the Adobe suite, one can
easily collapse and move around without any hassles. That would have been a good idea here.

**I like Anime Studio "Debut 6," nevertheless. I searched around for people who've worked
with previous versions of Anime Studio to get a feel for what experienced users are
bringing to the table. And, what I found was quite impressive. There are quite a few 5-
minute cartoon clips on Youtube created by using Anime Studio.
Anime Studio is a cross between Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Flash, but about 95% off.
It's a steal, learning curve and all, at around $25. Anime Studio works in the same way as
Flash. There's a canvas and various tools that you can create basic shapes. The tools,
which are many, occupy the left, header and right of the canvas. Below the canvas is the
timeline. Creating an image, setting a keyframe, readjusting the original artwork are the
essentials here just as in Flash.

***The software comes with 3 brief (and, I mean very brief) introductory tutorials and a
pdf of what tools do what. What I did in addition to looking for a final project was to
download a tutorial series, run it through iMovie and compress it into one 90-minute
movie (I did the exact same thing for Poser.) It helped a lot.
I'd also like to recommend, a great book w/ a cd-rom, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4: The Art of Design and Animation by Chris
Georgenes. In this book, Georgenes lays out about 2 dozen basic to professional ways to
create cartoons in Flash. Since, in my opinion, Anime Studio is an extremely inexpensive
version of Flash, then this book may prove to be worth its weight in gold.

****Pro's
+Inexpensive
+Takes up less than 500 MB of space
+Attractive, but brief tutorials
+Two (2) separate discs to install on Mac and Windows OS's.
+Many on-line supplementary tutorials and many finished products shows the potential of
this program has in creative hands.

Con's
-Interface is cluttered and visually intimidating
-Program has a high learning curve (this is not necessarily a bad thing)
-Company could have supplied multiple examples of real world users who succeeded with
the program.

*****Overall, Anime Studio "Debut 6" is a great program to have and if one can get over
the learning curve and cluttered interface, it may prove to be a better investment than
Adobe Flash.

The Internet Is Your Oyster
One of my housemates suggested, after all our random conversations and musings, that these get recorded in some form for others to laugh at too. I watch a lot of movies and write the odd script, which rarely reaches completion, so it would feel good to just "go mad" every once in a while: really get those creative feelings to the surface.

Anime Studio goes some way towards providing the resources for achieving this desire, to create short, experimental and disposable animations for the internet community. Now CS Flash (whatever the technical words actually mean) is like a foreign language for beginners like me, so to have access to a friendly interface with a timeline, work area and complex tutorials to get stuck into, suddenly the task seemed less scary. If you're a regular user of both Windows Movie Maker and Photoshop-esque software, then you'll likely feel at home in Anime Studio.

All I can say, compared to the price and learning curve of fully-fledged Flash software is simply, give it a go; either for yourself or as a Christmas present for someone creative/geeky/patient.

Anime Studio 6 Debut Pack
Ok item but no manual other than on computer, THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE AND IS NOT A GOOD ITEM WITHOUT A PRINTED VERSION.

IT WILL COST A LOT MORE TO THE BUYER, TO PRINT TUTORIAL MANUAL ETC.