Greg, it takes a big man to apologize. You've gone up in my estimation. Let's start with a blank slate. I won't prejudge any of your comments any more. Truce?

I'm betting SM will need some more paying upgrades to offset their investment in AS. Good point. But their investment is really only Mike Clifton's salary. As far as I understood it, Anime Studio came as part of the eFrontier package. They didn't specifically invest in AS until Mike came on board f...

Or maybe try to get an even older version of Flash cheaply, it might work. Does anyone know what the oldest version of Flash is that one could use for this?

Some people just don't know what they are talking about and post negative stuff about AS because they can't do any animation with in five minutes of having AS after years of doing animation other ways.

But Dale, conspiracy theories are just so much more fun!

I just bought a copy of Toon Boom Animate. I might as well tough it out on the learning curve You do know there's a free PLE version of Animate, don't you? It has no time limit, so you can learn the software without paying for it. And make your buying decision AFTER you have properly evaluated it. ...

Sfb, your calculations are correct. I don't think Chewanater (can I call you Chewie? :D ) was disagreeing with you. The other thing to consider is that Toon Boom will try to sell their (much!) more expensive higher-end products to you, whereas when you buy Anime Studio Pro, you're ALREADY getting th...

No offence taken, from anyone. It's all water under the bridge.

Group hug, everybody!

Well, except Mikdog still doesn't like me.

You can try awn.com as well. They'll be even less biased there.

Mkelley - No problem. I understand what you're saying. And I know you can defend yourself, but I just thought what Knunk said was inappropriate and wanted to give moral support. :D Mikdog - Er... what? What did I do wrong? I see a fellow forum member being abused and I try to help - why does that ea...

I don't need to prove anything. I was a pro animator most likely before you were diaper trained (seriously). I am retired now, from a whole lot of things, but that does not make me an amateur. Putting aside the fact that you didn't actually answer my question, save your condescending remarks for Kn...

Goodness me. Are you that desperate to dismiss this students achievements? Goodness me. Are you that desperate to divert attention from the fact that I was correcting you ? Don't put words in my mouth. I liked the film, I think it's good. I just disagree with your assertion that modern Flash animat...

mkelley, your TV series, is it actually broadcast on a TV channel? Is a studio actually paying you to do it? Some more details would go a long way to prove you are not a "hobbyist".

Hmmm, looking at Turn's other posts, pretty much all of them are critical of Anime Studio in subtle, back-handed ways.

Could this be spoiling tactics by the competition?

It's not the production companies that have power, it's the distribution companies. Without good distribution, even the best film will fail.

Just because there are more films out there, doesn't mean the amount of money people will spend on watching animated films is going to increase.

Wouldn't this be more appropriate on the TV Paint forum? Or maybe PM some of the people here who have TV Paint.