Cartoon Animation

Animation is obviously one of the things that Flash is great for. Achieving professional results is easy with a little plug-in help.

• Toon Boom Studio (www.toonboom.com), created by USAnimation, lets you create movie-quality, two-dimensional animations for the Web. What makes Toon Boom stand out as an animation tool is its 3-D stage ”finally, camera angles in Flash. You saw in Chapter 10, "Animation Techniques," how time-consuming it can be to lip sync your animation to a sound track ”Toon Boom has built-in editing tools to help you do that. If you are working with character animation, you should definitely give this one a look. It's available for Windows and Macintosh.