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Well, first Richard Williams releases an iPad version of his Animators Survival Kit, and now Disney releases "Disney Animated" for iPad. It includes 750 interactive illustrations, 400 short animated clips, interactive versions of the 12 principles of animation, background art, and lots of ...

This is an amazing site for vintage animation and cartoons. Everything is public domain and can be streamed or downloaded.

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If you have an iPad, you might be interested to know that Richard Williams just released a new, interactive version of his classic book designed specifically for the iPad. I've got his book but, since animation is motion it's nice to be able to see all the animated concepts in action. You can view t...

Yes, thank you, Mark and Eric!

3. the drawing view as it is now is too limited. I should have the option to draw outside of the view ,because sometimes,especially for close ups and zoom outs and other views where you don't see your whole character,I sometimes have to guess where the rest and the volumes of my characters would be...

Hi Charlie, Go into your applications folder and right-click (control-click) on TVPaint and select "Show Package Contents" in the pop-up menu. Double-click the Contents folder, then the Resources folder and you'll find your Papers folder. Simply drag & drop (or copy) your Mirage papers...

I rotate my canvas by pressing on Control+alt, although I'm not sure if that's a default shortcut or one that I set myself. When I release, I get back to my drawing tool. I couldn't find a default reset key so I assigned Shift+C, which I think may be similar to ToonBoom.

David,

Have you tried the cut brush custom panel in this thread? You'll find the newest version with an unproportional scaling option way down towards the bottom of the thread.

Ron

ArtRage is a really nice drawing and painting application and it's very inexpensive. It does not have animation capabilities however. They also offer a free starter edition. This along with The Gimp would really get him started.

David, Please check your Preferences/Display/Tool Display and make sure the "Hide Tools Preview" is not checked. I dealt with this issue in previous versions of Mirage & TVP until I figured this out. It's possible that the default setting enables the Hide Tools Preview and when you ins...

Thank you, Eric.

Here is what I got:

Eric and Fabrice, Thank you both for responding. I appreciate it. I am running OSX 10.4.11. (All my specs are at the end of my original post.) With TVPv.8.6 I would at least be able to launch the program, but the drop-down menus displayed nothing, shortcut keys did not work, and in general the progr...

Okay, I'm going to try again. As stated previously, TVP v.8.6 launches but is completely unusable and unresponsive on my Intel iMac. Now I've downloaded the 8.6.1 update and that's even worse. It simply crashes when I try to launch it. I've gone back to v. 8.5.10, which works fine, but it really con...

Regarding the playback speed of the tutorials, I agree . . . they zip right along. Have you tried setting the playback in Quicktime to half speed? It makes them a lot easier to watch and you can save the setting. I have Quicktime Pro so I'm not 100% sure that you can do this in standard QT.

Ron

Hi Glenda,

I downloaded and attempted to decompress a tutorial and discovered that, while they do seem to be Quicktime files, they are compressed with 7zip, which is a Windows application. In other words, it would seem that Mac users are unable to decompress the 7zip files.

Ron