http://www.luminousfilm.com/ They sell LED lighting panels that work spectacularly well as a light-box, except they are only about 5mm thick. In fact, I have used mine on top of Wacom tablet, so I can trace directly onto my computer. I've also hooked up a 12V dimmer to it so I can adjust the bright...

Thank you for the information Slowtiger. I already own Animation From Pencils to Pixels by Tony White. I have not read it yet. (I’ve been reading some of my other animation books.) I’ll start on the Tony White book tomorrow.

I am looking at the products on Lightfoot Ltd. I see they have animation paper in three sizes: 10f, 12f, and 16f. Can someone tell me in general terms what each paper is mainly used for? (Animation or backgrounds??? perhaps different final screen sizes???. What?) Also I noticed that have both fixed ...

I’ve been looking for a source for animation products, such as lightboxes, animation paper, pegbars, etc. I found one company called lightfootltd.com that sells animation supplies. Do you know of any others so I can compare prices?

[did you contact Celsys US?] No Patmals, I never did. I'm still not ready to commit to such high priced software. I'm playing around with FlipBook at the moment and planning on buying PAP. I have decided to not buy Toon Boom for sure. I own Photoshop, Illistrator, After Effects, Corel Paint and Anim...

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I already own FlipBook and it's okay, but it's not really exciting me yet so I'm still looking around for something else. I was thinking about buying PAP, so I thought I would ask to see if I missed any other drawing programs.

Kori

Yes, I did download it, but I have not looked at it yet. I didn't know about the sample files.

I have been learning FlipBook which I purchased, but I'm still interested in Retas as a vector drawing program. I wish it didn't cost so much.

Thanks for the info on Retas.

Kori

I was wondering if there was a way to look at a clip of animation and tell if it was raster or vector line-drawing. From the posts so far it sounds like there is no way to tell one from the other.

Are that any other line-drawing programs like Plastic Animation Paper 4.0, that also have the timeline(or x-sheet), and onion-skin function.

I was thinking about buying Plastic Animation Paper 4.0 but, I wanted to check out any other similar programs first.

Is it possible to tell if an animation character was created with raster or vector drawings just by looking at it? I am not talking about background. I am just talking about line-drawn character animation. Look at the character sample below taken from a DVD animation. It looks to me as if it was cre...

tonym You may be correct. I am playing the animation DVDs on my computer, using a DVD player program. (the kind you use to play movies) I have found is useful to slow down character movements to study animation. The books I have read do a good job describing the animation process, but nothing works ...

[What DVD's are you looking through? What actions?, what material?] It's not really important. It's an anime called 'Last Exile' on DVD. I am looking at head turns, walking, sitting ... just character body movements. I am counting frames to understand timing of movements, trying to see where the fas...

I own Anime Studio, but I'm not talking about it. I'm talking about traditional animation without software that does tweens. Most of the animation on DVDs were not done with software that does tweens, so it should be made in 2's. I understand that film is 24 fps and that video is 29.xxx fps, but it ...

I have read that most animated movies are shot in 2s, that is, the same animation frame is shot two times. This is why animation appear a little bit choppy. So for every second of film (24 frames), the animation has 12 drawings. I was studying scenes in an anime movie by advancing my DVD player one ...

Thanks everyone for the help. I think I have it down now.