Looping backgrounds or environments are useful for creating a prolonged panning effect. It can also help cut down on resources in some situations. Anime Studio’s cycling abilities allow us to create this effect.

With a character drawn and a skeletal structure set, creating a walking animation in Anime Studio is a pretty easy process. Here I show you how to keyframe your bones and move the character across the screen.

In this lesson I demonstrate how to organize, save and reuse assets using the Library in Anime Studio. This is useful if you have large projects or plan on reusing assets for future cartoons.

In this 45 minute lesson, I demonstrate how to draw a cartoon character in Anime Studio. Many techniques will be used here, including layer usage, the Add Point tool, the shape tool, modifying lines and more.

The Timeline Sequencer in Anime Studio allows you to sequence animations and other assets on the timeline. This is useful for moving a bunch of keyframes at once, adjusting audio and timing the appearance of your assets.

The text tool is useful for creating written on-screen dialog, credit sequences, environmental pieces and much more. The good thing is that it acts like every other vector graphic in Anime Studio, providing an easy way to animate and make changes.

Animation is a very complicated process and the best way to tackle it is to absorb all the knowledge you possibly can. Below are a list of books I recommend you try reading if you’re really interested in this subject:

• Animation Unleashed: 100 Principles Every Animator, Comic Book Writers, Filmmakers, Video Artist, and Game Developer Should Know
• The Animator’s Survival Kit, Expanded Edition: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
• Beginner’s Guide to Animation: Everything you Need to Know to get Started
• Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
• Layout and Composition for Animation

While Anime Studio wasn’t designed to be a robust frame by frame animation software, you can still achieve the effect with Switch Layers.

Ready to share your Anime Studio work with the world? Learn how to export videos, image streams and Flash SWFs files in this easy to follow tutorial.

Did you know you in Anime Studio you can create movements for characters and save them to be used later on? You can also combine actions to create more complex effects! The Actions Panel in Anime Studio is your key to saving time and creating more dynamic animations.