How do they?

[plant-eating-cat]

how do they animate on cartoon network or nick toons , or anything like that , do they use flash or something else???

Any one know?

[TheWikKid]

At 5/15/08 04:22 PM, plant-eating-cat wrote: how do they animate on cartoon network or nick toons , or anything like that , do they use flash or something else???

Any one know?

Im not 100% sure but i dont think they use flash, then again i could be wrong.

[plant-eating-cat]

hmm , it just seems so good , i don't really think its possible.

[Oggy-cheese]

a lot of the stuff is hand drawn, lots of stuff is done on something similar to toon boom i reckon, i don't think they would use flash. Most stuff is becoming 3D animation now though, but you can create that same style of TV show in flash quite well if that's what you are aiming for :D

[FaltaViva]

At 5/15/08 04:22 PM, plant-eating-cat wrote: how do they animate on cartoon network or nick toons , or anything like that , do they use flash or something else???

Any one know?

Some cartoons do. I know Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, and almost ALL of the cartoons on Adult Swim do.

[Cojones893]

At 5/15/08 04:28 PM, FaltaViva wrote: Some cartoons do. I know Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, and almost ALL of the cartoons on Adult Swim do.

Proof?

[plant-eating-cat]

At 5/15/08 04:30 PM, Cojones893 wrote:

At 5/15/08 04:28 PM, FaltaViva wrote: Some cartoons do. I know Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, and almost ALL of the cartoons on Adult Swim do.

Proof?

oo guys i've just found this!

http://www.flashcartoons.org/interview1.
php

[Oggy-cheese]

I think Adult Swim does, i'm pretty sure Fosters doesn't, can't find anything that says what DOES make it though, is this question just out of interest or for some other purpose?

[plant-eating-cat]

At 5/15/08 04:35 PM, Oggy-cheese wrote: I think Adult Swim does, i'm pretty sure Fosters doesn't, can't find anything that says what DOES make it though, is this question just out of interest or for some other purpose?

read the thing above , it says that fosters is , just of interest :)

[Oggy-cheese]

ah, sorry, didn't see that, that's pretty awesome :D

[Battosai810]

I know from an interview with Jackson Publick, creator of Venture Bros. that at least some shows use a program called Animo. It's apparently somewhere between flash and photoshop. I know Venture Bros is made in it, not sure what other cartoons are.
I know some shows on adult swim are flash based though. Home Movies was for sure, after the squigglevision era at least.

[LCurtis]

A lot of companies use ToonBoom.

[StrikerF2]

Some programs use flash. I know the TV series Monkey Dust used to, but thats quite old now and hasnt been on for ages (Also, it wasnt a kids show)

[LCurtis]

List of Shows/Movies that use toonboom. Includes Family Guy, The Simpsons, Fairly Odd Parents and MORE!

Note I dont see any citations for these claims...

[Oggy-cheese]

yea, i thought most of them used toonboom. I've always wanted to give that a go, but never got round to it.

[Patcoola]

flash is just an animation tool, it doesn't have the power to produce a full 22 minute show, instead parts of the animations are done in flash then exported into quick time and imported to final cut.

this is how shows like Harvey Birdman or Chilly Beach is done.

[Luis]

I agree with the post above... Flash's strength is in its being optimized for online entertainment. Hypothetically you *could* make a show for tv but its a huge pain in the ass.... the converstion to tv formats are still a headache, and not that clean. Theres synching issues, sound issues, etc etc. In the future maybe Adobe will go hardcore and address that aspect of it. As of right now its at its greatest power in the online environment.

I've heard alot of companies using Toon Boom... which would make sense considering Toon Boom is a rasterbased animation program, it publishes to tv formats really well. The achilles heel of Toon Boom is that its not suited as an online entertainment animation tool like flash is... yea it exports to swf but it looks like absolute shit because it isnt vector based.

[KaynSlamdyke]

A fair few toons, as stated somewhere above, are made predomenantly in Flash. Not least of all one of my favourites, Metalocalypse (and if you analyse it, you can see exactly where the Motion Tweens kick in)

[source]

No one program can do it all, but Flash lends itself to the speed animation that Metalocalypse demands - the episodes have an approximate turn around of a week, and considering that the lead writer also has to compose a song and voice act during that period, the staff are under pretty tight deadlines.

Cold Hard Flash, mecca for monetising Flash, keeps a list of shows using Flash as thier main animation package here. A few major web toons are on that list (Brackenwood, Xombie and H*R), but some mainstream cartoons are on the list as well (like Atomic Betty, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Tom Visits the Mayor, Tek Jansen from the Colbert Report, and Johnny Test)

Flash = Serious Animation Tool. And if they have any sense, Adobe will make sure CS4 doesn't just have IK controls and AS4, but some decent animation tools and some fixed exporting options.