What software was used to create Pink and Ain ?
About half the original animation was done with pencil and paper, using Acme punched 8.5″x11″ paper. There were about 1500 frames drawn on paper. The frames were then captured to video tape with the help of an Animation Lunchbox from Animation Toolworks. I captured the video from the tapes to my computer using a MiroVideo DC30+ video capture/encoding card from Pinnacle Systems. I used a Wacom drawing tablet and Aura from Newtek to trace the lines on all the frames and fill in color in a cartoon-fill style. I used Aura to create most of the backgrounds, as well as the overlay effects. I used Adobe Premiere to assemble the clips and audio into the final package. Randy Nelson was nice enough to write the score, and we found a bunch of musicians and recorded it onto DAT tape. The DAT tapes were then converted to WAVs and inserted into Premiere. Adobe Illustrator was used for the opening and closing credits, and Adobe After Effects was used for the fight scene and the closing credits. CVS w
