Feb 12, 2015 - Finally find out how this Program work. The result came out very good Retas Pro HD. I have been playing around with Retas Studio Pro HD for about a week, and cannot find many resources on it. There are no books in English, very few Youtube tutorials, and the tech support from its company, Celsys, has been less than helpful. I have been browsing the manuals, but they are huge and difficult for me to sit through; although, as translated manuals go, I've had worse. Now, I am very new to this forum and forums in general, so please bear with me. Also let me know if I am doing anything wrong here. OS: Win 7 Home Premium x64 CPU: Intel Core2Duo mobile 2.53Ghz RAM: 4GB DDR2 GPU: Nvidia Quadro NVS 160 Mobile 256mb Though I haven't actually done anything with it yet. The whole set costs $2400 on There is a Mac OS version for sale in English but good luck finding it English Manuals can be found And, finally, is the product page. EDIT: Also, the product is! Please let me know if any of you have experience with this software. I'll be more than happy to update when I find out anything else, whether by trial and error or in the manuals; or, if someone posts something revelatory, I will update as well. Thank you for your time, BP. Yes, well, in point of fact, I made an account here directly after getting the cold shoulder from Celsys. They kept telling me to message the English distributor's tech support, but there is no distributor in the West anymore, only China and Korea. D: The folks here have a lot of experience with different softwares, or so I figured. And as I stated in the op I can't turn up anything online that's definitive outside of what I listed; you might say Japan's best kept secret? I have played with Anime Studio a little bit, however. Outlook not accepting gmail password. Thankfully there's a lot of info on Youtube about it. Smith Micro is good about that. The split into 4 different applications sounds a lot like the setup of Animo (by Cambridge Animation Systems) in the 90's. Without having used or seen Retas in action, I can safely suppose that there will be a high level of interaction between the parts, and there must be some means of user management incorporated: who works on which scene, which parts are finished, which parts are approved - stuff you don't need as a single artist. Retas is optimized to mimick the 'painted cel' look, which means other styles are not possible or only very hard to create. But that's nothing you can't do with other software as well. If you're willing to put a bit more thinking and planning into your work, you're much better off with other software, and even save money. My preferred combination is Anime Studio plus TVPaint, price tags 200 and 1250 € for the pro versions. It all depends on your style. Don't ever buy stuff you don't need ('vectorization' would be one of them). Thank you muchly for your thoughts, slowtiger! I didn't expect to hear from a moderator on my first thread You are indeed correct that there is a built-in file management system with attached editable progress sheets and BBS, and it was created in the 90s, 1993 if I remember; maybe that style of software suites suited how studios operated back then? I could see how the workflow would lend itself to painted-cel styling, and that is definitely not for everybody. Having grown up on East-Asian style cartoons, I quite like it, though, and it can be hard to achieve nicely in some painting and photo software, I noticed. As far as not wasting money. You're probably right. The bauhaus band. For most people, a lot of these features are obsolete; however I have a number of impediments that make this piece uniquely useful to me, chiefest among them being that I am still uncomfortable with my tablet. So I want to stick with it if I can. I have Retas Studio which cost me about ¥37,000 ($300?) that I got from Amazon Japan. You need to be in Japan to get it though and you need Japanese Windows to run it. It's not difficult to use, if you know how to do frame-by-frame animation there isn't really any learning curve to it. Setup your scene folder > then fill in your x-sheet if you are importing frames / or open up Stylos and draw some keys then fill in the x-sheet > inbetween using Stylos > create 'shadow markup' using Stylos > color using PaintMan > composite scene using Core. I always wondered if SmithMicro would pick Retas Studio up since 'Manga Studio' is actually Clip Studio which is produced by the same company. It would had made more marketing sense calling Retas Studio 'Anime Studio' (since it's used to make 90% of all anime and is pandering to a specific production process) than Moho did, which is not. I dissagree with slowtiger that you might be better off with other software, you won't, Retas Studio has by far the most intuitive ink & paint system for this style of animation, nothing comes close and probably nothing ever will since all the focus is now on puppet/deform animation. TVPaint is archaic and Harmony is chaotic. Maybe you can try out CACANi instead? They appear to be catering towards the same industry as Retas Studio is. Their auto inbetween system is actually magical because of it's granular control, you can easily discard frames that aren't needed, for example you draw frames 1, 5 and 10 (k/b/k), CACANi auto-generates 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 making it look like a Flash tween, so you can just discard 3, 4, 6 and 7 and it has that limited animation feel to it with some slight slow-in/out padding.
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