Mercury Filmworks is well-known for being an innovator in both the development of animated content as well as its adoption of advanced production techniques, both of which have been essential to its strength and continued growth and prosperity. Approached by Shaftesbury Films, Toronto, Ontario, to produce 13 :30 episodes of Mischief City under a tight budget, they partnered with Toon Boom to implement a new product, Concerto, and workflow, that have helped them meet their ambitious production goals. [More]

Lichi, an animation and post-production facility located in Taipei, produces animation for advertising and television series. Lichi added Toon Boom Studio to their tool set in 2002 and have used the software on a number of productions since. [More]

When we think of web animation and online cartoons, we tend to think of either flying corporate logos or oddball webisodes full of lowbrow humor. But Broken Saints, an online graphic novel created by Brooke Burgess, Andrew West and Ian Kirby, defies categorization. This work of "cinematic literature", as its creators call it, catapults web animation into uncharted territory. [More]

Slappy Pictures is an independent, full service animation studio located in Southern California. The studio specializes in traditional cell, stop motion and CG animation for a variety of clients and media. Started up in February 2002 by Mike Dietz, studio director, Slappy Pictures has used Toon Boom Studio on two projects so far and plans to use it on many more in the future. [More]

Stone Soup is an award winning traditional cell animation and digital ink & paint shop in Houston Texas that produces animation for film, broadcast, video, and the Internet. Stone Soup's subcontractors have worked for high profile clients such as Disney, Dream Works, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, and Hanna Barbara to name a few. [More]

STVDIO Media is an American-managed animation studio located in Hong Kong. Collaborating with a network of animators from around the world, STVDIO Media produces traditional and flash style 2D cartoon animation for a wide variety of projects and budgets. To date STVDIO Media has used Toon Boom Studio for video, web animations, and even a print production! We spoke with studio director Larry Feign about STVDIO Media's experience and appreciation of Toon Boom Studio V2. [More]

Jean-Luc Gagé is a professional animator and filmmaker based in Paris. When not busy working on personal projects, Gagé collaborates as a storyboard artist and assistant-director on European animation series such as HIGHLANDER, BOB MORANE, ENIGMA, LE MAGICIEN, UNE FAMILLE D'ENFER, CARTOUCHE, MALO KORRIGAN, THE BOY... [More]

Toon Boom Studio, versatile animation package that it is, is steadily making headway as a choice animation tool for multimedia studios. Webfutur, a website design company based in south western France uses Toon Boom Studio regularly to create animation for their own site and those of their clients. [More]

What better way is there to bring home a message to kids than through animation? Patrick Cannon, Children's Pastor at Cedar Creek, a non-denominational church in the heart of Perrysburg Ohio, puts animation to work in exciting multimedia presentations that appeal to young audiences. [More]

And the winners are... Akira Nagano and Takashi Murakami! Wanna know what the contest was? Japanese artist Bird released a song called Flash. Naturally, Sony Music Entertainment decided to run a Flash animation contest to build interest and excitement for the new song. After several weeks of hard work, the lucky and skillful winners are quite happy to say that they couldn't have done it without Toon Boom Studio™, which was an instrumental member of their directorial team! [More]

The dawn is rising for animation shops like Sun King Studios, where vector technology makes it possible for small teams to create beautiful projects with tiny price tags. With Toon Boom Studio™, animation director Jeff O.Brien Myers can have a studio as small or as large as he needs, located anywhere, and produce high-quality, high-impact moving images for the large or small screen. [More]

Nicholas Da Silva is the founder of ZOOLOOK, a multicultural media company, and is the creator of the fantastic animation community site, I Want My Flash TV!. He engaged the creative power of Toon Boom Studio to construct a trailer to illustrate the Animation Magazine "Pitch Party Coop & Content Contest" and to pitch his latest project, Dread & Alive. [More]

Geoff Carley has worked as an animator for seven years and was lead animator at Heavy.com where he worked on such web classics as "Munchy Man and Fatty" and "Behind the Music that Sucks". While working on various freelance jobs, he's also taught animation at Dawson College, Montreal. [More]

During the school year, Brian Curwick teaches literature, language arts and US history at the Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma, California. In the summer, he works on the "Gifted and Talented" program, which gives him the opportunity to present students with challenging material not part of their regular subjects and learn something new with them at the same time. [More]

Academy-Award winning studio Pascal Blais Productions selected Toon Boom Studio to develop a series of TV ads for Coke. They worked with Oscar-nominated director Cordell Barker, who wanted a fresh, Internet style for the ads. [More]

Retail chain Prime Outlets wanted a bright, summery ad to open their new store in Puerto Rico with a big bang! Not only did the ad need to be fun and capture the excitement of a joint sweepstakes with US Airways, but it also had to be delivered in a week! [More]

Qantas presented Sixty40.com, the Sydney multimedia production house, with a difficult challenge: produce two 15 second, animated TV commercials in one week. Sixty40.com played to the strengths of Toon Boom Studio and Macromedia Flash MX and one week later they have produced two crisp, clever ads. [More]