I'm in the process of teaching myself ToonBoom Animate through the video tutorials on their site and the resources on their forums. It's definitely not a "simplistic" kind of program, but it seems like ToonBoom, Flash, and Maya are the industry standard programs used for animations. I'm an audio guy, and I'm versed in many of the different industry standard digital audio workstations out there, so transitioning to animation is quite different and definitely a challen...
This is pretty big news for a lot of animators out there. About a year ago I began actual production on my cartoon series (been writing and prepping things for the better part of 10 years), and after a lot of research and digging it seemed like the only real option that was widely used was Toon Boom. So we picked up Toon Boom Harmony 11 a few months before they came out with 12 and changed their pricing models. It's a very robust program with a lot of tricks and content to learn. I've...