You may have liked to watch cartoons in your young ages. May be you are an adult still interested in watching TV cartoons or cartoon films. Have you thought about the effort behind the cartoon films? It may be a difficult and laborious task to develop cartoon films than shooting a film with actors. You have to be a graphic artist to create cartoon movies. Cartoon animation softwares are the platforms that can be used to create cartoons. There are several cartoon softwares available in the market and available in the World Wide Web.
Swish, Plastic Animator, TV Paint, Pro Motion, Toon Boom digital studio are some of the software packages available for the cartoonists. Some of these softwares are open source or free to download. Some of the other softwares are sold to greater and lesser prices. The Cartoonist should look for the requirement of his before selecting software for his needs. This will save time and money expended for the creation of the cartoons.
Cartoon is usually 2D or 3D animation composed of several picture frames. Movement of these picture frames shows you a moving object or a cartoon. So a creative person can make a meaningful story by using these moving clips. This is how cartoons are created.
Let's discuss about several cartoon animation software.
Synfig is an easy to use cartoon creating software. It is a very easy and user friendly software that can be used to draw the cartoons. There are several options available in this software that would be helpful for you to create cartoons with this software. This software is open source software. You can download it from the World Wide Web to create your cartoons.
Swift 3D is a three dimensional graphic designing software. That can be used to create cartoon movies. This software integrates Adobe flash through the Swift 3D file importer. Swift 3d introduces four outline styles, five cartoon fill styles and 2 gradient fill styles to the graphic designers. Further this software is enriched with the features like pen style outlines, multiple overlapping shadows. Moreover this software creates vector reflections. The smart layer technology separates vector layers in the graphic. Further this software has robust animation features like drag and drop animation palette, morphing of text and path, Bezier path animation tools, full featured animation timelines and many more versatile features. However there is some special hardware requirements should be there to install Swift 3D in your computer. You need a 400 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM, 25 MB of hard disk space, 1024 X 768 of resolution monitor. Further this software is compatible for several file formats.
Do you know there are some software packages those can make you a cartoon figure? Funny isn't it? Cartoon effect creator is software that can be used to convert your video in to a cartoon movie. This is very user friendly software and its several tools will give you the ability of performing funny cartoon videos with the use of your real videos. The currently available version of this software is Cartoon Effect Creator 4.0.
Today there is a trend to create more cartoon films. With the rapid development of the cartoon film industry there is rapid development of the cartoon animation software. There are several more new features are adding day by day with the release of new software.
Jumat, 22 September 2017
Sabtu, 09 September 2017
Top Free Software for Cartoon Drawing You Should Know About
Making a cartoon comic strip, manga comic series, or cartoon animation is not easy. Not only do you have to worry about getting the right team of writers, pencil artists, and inkers but you also have to get the best software for cartoon drawing. Some of the best tools are PaintTool SAI, Adobe Illustrator, and Manga Studio.
The software is designed to help correct you with the pencil work, layout, coloring, and more. You still need to be able to draw and work as a team but the software does a lot of the tedious work for you and also gives you the ability to create intricate pieces of work. Unfortunately, all of those are pretty expensive.
If you're just starting out with you and a few friends, hoping to practice and dip your feet in the water then you will want to start out with freeware software instead. You won't be spending money and still be able to experience the process of professional cartoon drawing. Take a look at some of the best freeware software for cartoon drawing below:
SmoothDraw - out of all the different freeware, SmoothDraw is the most basic but it does offer a lot. This is basically a trimmed version of Adobe Photoshop. You could consider it more like Photoshop CS2 or CS3 when it is compared to the new Adobe Photoshop CS6. It doesn't work with Vector images so you'll have to work a little bit more carefully with SmoothDraw. It does offer a wide variety of brush strokes and it is compatible with light pens and other drawing peripherals. The only problem with SmoothDraw is that while it is quite capable, it is mostly designed to do single images and the majority of the tools are for portrait brush strokes and not cartoon designs.
Inkscape - if you had to pick one freeware that could be a perfect replacement to Adobe Illustrator then you can't go wrong with Inkscape. As a matter of fact, many artists in Deviant Art that do comic book art and animation use Inkscape. This is a very in-depth tool that not only allows to do work from scratch but it also allows you to convert bitmap images to Vector formats. This is perfect if you are transferring sketches from real paper to the computer for editing and coloring.
Inkscape looks and feels like a merging of Manga Studio and Adobe Illustrator. This is because it has all the usual Vector editing tools of Illustrator but the interface and additional tools are specifically for drawing. If you are going for comic strip art or even frame-by-frame then this is the freeware tool you are looking for.
Synfig Studio - so what freeware software can top Inkscape? If you have the time and patience to go over a very steep learning curve then Synfig Studio is the best choice. It has a lot more options for artists and is even capable of frame by frame animations. Many cartoonists use Synfig Studios to do cartoon animations especially for advertisements or when they want to present a sample (2-3 minutes) to a large animation studio. Some Japanese anime studios use Synfig when they are making episodes for their anime show.
Never limit yourself. Yes, the paid products might offer more tools and plug-ins but the free software can still get the job done. Inkscape pretty much handles the job pretty well but if you are hoping for more advanced options and animation capabilities for your drawings then Synfig Studios is your free option. You just have to take the time to study it well. In the end, it still depends on you and your team. After all, the majority of the work is still dependent on your ability to write and draw, whether on paper or on a computer peripheral.
The software is designed to help correct you with the pencil work, layout, coloring, and more. You still need to be able to draw and work as a team but the software does a lot of the tedious work for you and also gives you the ability to create intricate pieces of work. Unfortunately, all of those are pretty expensive.
If you're just starting out with you and a few friends, hoping to practice and dip your feet in the water then you will want to start out with freeware software instead. You won't be spending money and still be able to experience the process of professional cartoon drawing. Take a look at some of the best freeware software for cartoon drawing below:
SmoothDraw - out of all the different freeware, SmoothDraw is the most basic but it does offer a lot. This is basically a trimmed version of Adobe Photoshop. You could consider it more like Photoshop CS2 or CS3 when it is compared to the new Adobe Photoshop CS6. It doesn't work with Vector images so you'll have to work a little bit more carefully with SmoothDraw. It does offer a wide variety of brush strokes and it is compatible with light pens and other drawing peripherals. The only problem with SmoothDraw is that while it is quite capable, it is mostly designed to do single images and the majority of the tools are for portrait brush strokes and not cartoon designs.
Inkscape - if you had to pick one freeware that could be a perfect replacement to Adobe Illustrator then you can't go wrong with Inkscape. As a matter of fact, many artists in Deviant Art that do comic book art and animation use Inkscape. This is a very in-depth tool that not only allows to do work from scratch but it also allows you to convert bitmap images to Vector formats. This is perfect if you are transferring sketches from real paper to the computer for editing and coloring.
Inkscape looks and feels like a merging of Manga Studio and Adobe Illustrator. This is because it has all the usual Vector editing tools of Illustrator but the interface and additional tools are specifically for drawing. If you are going for comic strip art or even frame-by-frame then this is the freeware tool you are looking for.
Synfig Studio - so what freeware software can top Inkscape? If you have the time and patience to go over a very steep learning curve then Synfig Studio is the best choice. It has a lot more options for artists and is even capable of frame by frame animations. Many cartoonists use Synfig Studios to do cartoon animations especially for advertisements or when they want to present a sample (2-3 minutes) to a large animation studio. Some Japanese anime studios use Synfig when they are making episodes for their anime show.
Never limit yourself. Yes, the paid products might offer more tools and plug-ins but the free software can still get the job done. Inkscape pretty much handles the job pretty well but if you are hoping for more advanced options and animation capabilities for your drawings then Synfig Studios is your free option. You just have to take the time to study it well. In the end, it still depends on you and your team. After all, the majority of the work is still dependent on your ability to write and draw, whether on paper or on a computer peripheral.
Langganan:
Postingan (Atom)