Ink and Paint Frustration
May. 14th, 2004 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaInking directly in Flash is impossible. There just isn't enough control over the tool behaviours.
Inking in Illustrator has the control but it's such a convoluted process to get to a tracethrough that it hardly seems worth it. (Place image, align image to page, select last cel, dim to some percentage, etc, etc,etc) I can't find the shaft for my quill pen and can't find any tech pens in the gauge I want (and I wanna use quill pen anyhow) If I could find that I could at least hand ink them and throw them into Flash and hit 'Trace Bitmap' which would work adequately for a short project but nooo. Nothing but frustration tonight.
*sigh* I suppose I need Toonz or ToonBoom or something. Anyone got a few thousand extra dollars laying around that they wouldn't mind giving me?
Edit: Actually ToonBoom is pretty darned cheap ($120 student, $500 pro) and runs on the Mac. Hmm. I may have to seriously think about that one. Gotta see how good the demo runs first.
Inking in Illustrator has the control but it's such a convoluted process to get to a tracethrough that it hardly seems worth it. (Place image, align image to page, select last cel, dim to some percentage, etc, etc,etc) I can't find the shaft for my quill pen and can't find any tech pens in the gauge I want (and I wanna use quill pen anyhow) If I could find that I could at least hand ink them and throw them into Flash and hit 'Trace Bitmap' which would work adequately for a short project but nooo. Nothing but frustration tonight.
*sigh* I suppose I need Toonz or ToonBoom or something. Anyone got a few thousand extra dollars laying around that they wouldn't mind giving me?
Edit: Actually ToonBoom is pretty darned cheap ($120 student, $500 pro) and runs on the Mac. Hmm. I may have to seriously think about that one. Gotta see how good the demo runs first.
