The Better Question: What Does Being an Animator Mean to You?īack to the first questions about what makes an app 'professional' and what app is for 'professional quality' animation? well their business model is a subscription service to the app, so you're going to need professional quality art skills to get professional quality results). (Not to mention MOHO also has its own content pack addons you can buy if you can't draw, and Toon Boom. The people who create professional content for you to buy for CA4 don't have to buy anything to create professional quality animations, therefore, logically, if you can produce professional quality art yourself, then you don't need to buy any assets either. The implication was that learning Cartoon Animator had been a waste of time.Ī secondary part of the question was incorrectly thinking that you needed to buy hundreds of dollars worth of assets to do professional work with Cartoon Animator, where as with Toon Boom and MOHO you don't need to buy any assets. The consensus was that learning Toon Boom Harmony or MOHO was the better option because both those applications have track records for producing animation for TV and Cinema. In a discussion in the Cartoon Animator Users Facebook group a member noted that they had been learning Cartoon Animator (CA4) for four months, only to find out that the application isn't used by professional animators (based on asking 30 professionals on LinkedIn).

Is it the target market of an animation tool that makes it professional? Is it the skill of the person using it that determines whether a tool is capable of professional quality output or the specs of the app? There is an ongoing debate in animation circles about what animation tools are considered 'Professional' and capable of producing 'Professional Quality' animation? Can only tools with the status of 'Industry Standard' be considered professional and by extension be the only tools that can produce professional quality animation?

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