Not much of Note

 I wasn't able to accomplish much at the beginning of this week. I did a little more research into Digital animation programs. Looking back at both Toon Boom Harmony and Adobe Animate I was able to find a simple list of pros and cons for each program and found out while Adobe Animate is a good program it doesn't really have all the built in settings and background that Toon boom has and requires additional help from some of the other Adobe software such as using After Effects for lighting and technical effects. Toon Boom seems to be more of an industry standard for the most part but to get the highest use out of it you need to pay more for a better version of the program that adds a ton of new features, and unfortunately it has a steeper learning curve.


While toon boom is a less cost effective program I definitely want to stick with is because I would rather try and get over its learning curve so that I am able to work better within the industry standard of digital animation.


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