Review by Shevi

It takes a while to get the hang of creating animation with Anime Studio, but once you do learn it, it does provide a fairly quick way to produce very basic but smooth animation.

The learning curve is frustrating, though. I’ve studied digital animation, but the approach here is a bit different. Characters are built on skeletons, and you have to determine how flexible you want joints to be. That took some getting used to.

There are exercises designed to help you learn the program, but they’re not the clearest and kind of boring. Videos that show you exactly what you’re supposed to do would have been more helpful, and allowing users greater freedom would have made it less tedious. I would not recommend this program for kids younger than 13 simply because it is a little hard to learn.

If you want to create animation for YouTube or something similar, and you have the time to learn it, this is an okay place to start.