Anime Studio Debut 9

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.

A great starter program for animation at a really great cost! Easy to learn and good on-line tutorials from the company. Im happy... and even though I say starter, I think this will take me a long way before Ill need more.

Anime Studio Debut 9 is by far one of the least user-friendly programs I have ever used. Even very simple actions take an excessive amount of clicks through menus to get done. For example, lets take an incredibly simple function like drawing a vector-based circle. You draw your circle and you want to modify the fill and stroke. Sorry, but you cant, those options are greyed out. Even though the circle is already selected because you just drew the darn thing you have to first click on the Select Shape tool, click the shape, THEN you can change properties of the circle. WHY?! I just drew it, let me change its attributes right there and then! Another massive gripe I have with Debut is that your project dimensions are limited to 788x768! This is a huge limitation that basically cripples the software for me. ASD9 has some cool features, like bone-rigging, that work really well, but is rendered unusable due to the frustrating and unintuitive user interface. Fortunately the software is cheap enough that trying it out isnt going to break the bank.

This software was only $30 but it doesnt do the bones and other features that are advertised for the full software package. Good tutorials, but it really leaves out too many basic features.

I am a beginner with cartooning, so this software is a bit intimidating although I am impressed with the capacity it has to actually make the cartoons.

dis program is exactly what I wanted, easy to follow intros and tons of fun drawing and bringing to life yo :)

I was amazed at how much the product does. I am just starting to learn how to do the cartoons. But I am very happy with the price and the product. I would recommend it to anyone.

Just what I needed

I was waiting a very long time to buy this, for I had never had an animating program. Once I got it though, it told me that I had to pay $40 if I wanted to go more than 2 minutes. And it was very confusing to use if you wanted to draw your own figure, unless it was a shape. And to learn how you had to read this large instruction manual. I am sad to say that this is two stars, but I was just expecting better from it.

Seems good so far. My disk came a little scuffed, but installed just fine. Ive been busy so I havent really got to use it much. But its totally work the 6 something paid.