Anime Studio Debut 9

Just got this thing about a few days ago. Started to look through tutorials and how-tos on this software. When I was messing with it for the last couple of hours, I had some likes and dislikes about it. Things I Liked: - Frame-by-Frame/Timeline: The timeline helped out a lot while I was messing around with making animations. Almost as easy as Adobe Flash. - Bone System: The bone system was also a nice little feature that saved me a lot of time. Its a nice feature, but I rather go with Frame-by-Frame animation as it gives me more control. -Freehand Drawing (Pen Pressure) The pen pressure feature helped when I was doing some rough sketches of making characters in animation. Things I Disliked: After 30 minutes of using the software, I found out this wasnt really as user-friendly as Adobe Flash. Heres why: -When doing the Freehand Drawing, there isnt any easy erase tool if you mess up your lines. Its either you have to undo it, or use the joints and fiddle around with the line until it fits your liking. -The scene settings didnt allow for me to have the resolution at HD. If you wanted something WideScreen, best go with 640x480 if you want to upload on Youtube. Conclusion: The software isnt entirely bad. For 22 dollars, its worth the money, but I kind of wish Smith Micro added a little bit more. Then again, they have a pro version, but its 300 dollars. Not worth my money. If you want something really user-friendly, try out Adobe Flash if you have 600 dollars lying around with you. Just be sure what you want to do with the software, for Anime Studio 9 isnt for everybody. I give it 4 stars because while its not the most user-friendly software there is, for only 20 dollars, its worth it.

I have been using Amorphium and other animation software for several years and got Anime Studio Debut 9 when I wanted to create some animated cartoons - the bones feature is a big time saver - great program.

Really nice program. The tutorial is not well laid out and can be difficult to use a 12 page pamphlet to really get out of this program. Does not give me promise for purchasing the full program, seeing that there are no tutorials. However, its a pretty neat program and does some pretty awesome stuff. I like it.

Its a great program to use if you want to learn how to do animations of your own. And if youre working on turning a manga into an anime its perfect.

Learned so much already, so easy to use. Works great with drawing pad. Additional tutorials lifesaving.

extremely limited. No real instruction. Not very useful. They should fotget the debut and go right to the real product if ththey arent going to give you a chance to use it.

I am looking forward to using this software soon. All the other online products I have tried did not work.

Sometimes when you dont spend a fortune of a product you end up wishing you had. This was a great price and it delivers more than I expected in terms of ease use and what it will do. I highly recommend this for anyone who is not an anime professional but still wants to do nice work easily.

Updated the manga studio 5. Bought by my daughter after taking a graphics art class at our local community college.

OMg, my son can spend hours on this! Cute creations.