I’ve been having trouble running TBS 6 on my old Mac mini. I use the bone feature a lot - building a lot of skeletons and it can barely keep up. I’m trying to decide whether to get a used Mac Pro tower. Do any of you have experience running Toon Boom Studio 8 on a Mac Pro with the latest version of Yosemite? I won’t be online and I won’t be running other programs besides TBS 8. I know I’ll need at least a 2010 or later so it can have a pair of powerful enough graphic cards - like an Nvidia GTX 760, 960 or 770 with at least 2G total. Will I have any problems working this way - is this adequate graphics power if I beef up the ram to 6 GB or so?
Also - I should add that I work almost exclusively in bitmap - hardly any vector.
Well, I am still running TBS 5 with OS X Yosemite / NVIDIA GTX 680 without any problems…
I see no reason why TBS 8 should work as well… (presumably even better).
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That’s good to know. Do you do a lot of bone deformations?
TBS 5 doesn’t have “Bones” yet…
Upgraded to Animate Pro 3 a while ago, “Bones” working there extremely well with my system.
Are you working mostly in bitmap or vector? I’m told that makes a huge difference.
Yes, it does, lots of Bitmaps can easily overload any system, especially when using HD-formats.
If so, keep your projects short, then assemble in your favourite video editor.
As I draw directly in Toon Boom my image of choice is Vector, using Bitmaps fairly rarely.