I am looking around for a programmable keypad. The iPad can be 100% WiFi but its cable is a fine Thunderbolt plug with more like a wire compared to the Cintiq's bulkier cable and plug sticking out of the device. Although the Cintiq buttons and software interface have value (of course) I am happy to just have the drawing area available using Astropad to mirror a portion of the interface. I like the small footprint of the iPad Pro. I reconsidered, returned it and ended up with an iPad Pro 12.9 and use an app called Astropad. I went as far as buying the 13HD however I postponed opening the box. The 27" is too big and expensive to be practical for me. Had the 22HD been updated I might have built something around one. I carefully considered getting a Cintiq when I was building a system. I would like to know what people do not like about drawing with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. I hope Wacom takes notice of the design choices that Apple has made in the form factor of their stylus, because I would jump back to a Wacom-branded product (like their portable Studio product) in a heartbeat if it could match the feeling of the iPad. I'm open to the gap being closed in the future. It's a tough bargain to give up the power of really, REALLY good software in favor of something more immaterial (the drawing "experience"), but it's simply irresistible. Here's some animation done in RoughAnimator: I hope to see more development in this area. FlipPad (from Digicel) is good, but buggy and idiosyncratic (much like its desktop sibling FlipBook). Only one is really useful for animation (RoughAnimator), although a few others do have potential. The Apple Pencil has a proper conical tip, and is easily the most natural digital drawing experience ever.Īs for animation, I have tried out every single animation app for the iPad that purports to handle hand-drawn animation. Even though my Cintiq supports pen tilt, it doesn't feel quite right to tilt the Wacom stylus and not be able to touch the screen with the side of the stylus tip. The shape of the Apple Pencil is much much better than the tiny-tipped Wacom/Ntrig stylus form factor that's found on other types of tablet. that I've ever used (and I've tried 'em all). Although it's obviously not the full-fledged computer that it could be, the experience of drawing on it with the Apple stylus is VASTLY superior to any other tablet/Cintiq/Tablet PC etc. It's been quite some time since I did any animating in TVPaint because I acquired an iPad Pro about six months ago. Retrieved June 12, 2013.Happy new year, TVPaint pals. ^ Don Bluth Recommends DigiCel FlipBook.^ "Animation Studios Use FlipBook Because the Animators Demand it".FlipBook is for real hand-drawn animation like the good old Disney stuff. If you just draw key frames and then push them around you generally end up with animation that looks like a computer did it. FlipBook is for real animators who want to do real animation. "Comment on "Don Bluth Recommends DigiCel FlipBook" ". Credits and endorsements įlipBook has been used on Titan A.E., The Simpsons Movie, Enchanted, The Princess and the Frog and others, and has been endorsed by Don Bluth. Ī free, full-featured demo version which produces watermarked output is also available for download.
Digicel Flipbook does not work on MacOS after Catalina (2019) but there is a version called DigiCel Flip-Pad which runs on iOS for iPad. The other editions support more layers, more frames, multiple soundtracks and higher output resolutions.
The Lite edition supports one foreground and one background layer, one soundtrack, and up to three hundred frames per shot. Versions įlipBook is available in four versions: Lite, Studio, Pro and Pro HD. Each frame must be drawn separately FlipBook intentionally does not support skeletal animation or morph target animation, as these are not part of the traditional animator's toolkit. Inbetweening is done using onion skinning. In either case, the internal format is raster-based, not vector-based. It is intended to closely replicate the traditional animation process, very similar to the likes of TVPaint Animation and Toon Boom Harmony.įlipBook supports scanning physical drawings with a TWAIN-compliant scanner or webcam, or direct digital input via a Wacom tablet. There is a version for iOS called Digicel Flip-Pad. (runs on MacOS Mojave or earlier, but not on recent MacOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey ). DigiCel FlipBook is 2D animation software that runs on Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X.