and it would be in your favor to have an artist on hand to answer questions [as the person giving the presentation told us immediately he was not one], i noticed a bit of confusion when people were asking specifics about exports to illustrator, drawing tools, or things like putting shadows on characters and it seemed like people weren’t really getting their questions resolved.

i appreciate what you guys are doing with your program, and like i said i’ll try it out, but i think maybe instead of taking the angle that “we can do what after effects and flash do in the same program” you should maybe focus on that you can handle multiple animating styles. one of the benefits of flash is the ability to draw in the program [as weak as it is in flash] and sometimes people use symbols not because they like it but because it’s a speed necessity. otherwise we’d probably all be using after effects instead.

i would also suggest looking into what sorts of third party extensions people are using for flash and work with the people making them to incorporate their ideas into toon boom.

the information on the animo auto color you posted above is really helpful too. i can see that being a definite benefit of the pro version.

Non-biased? The CartoonSmart guy was one of your video evangelists!

Now I understand that it was more of a tech demo for the software than a showcase, and that alot of the industry has moved toward cut-out animation. But the drawing tools, onion skinning, scrubbing and frame-by-frame workflow should have been elaborated on, as well. I was wondering when looking at the product list whether or not I could just get by with Pencil Check. I was happy to see Storyboard Pro in action, though.