Drawing Ned Zombie from Punch Card Zombies

I had some time tonight to play around with Toon Boom Animate some more, I've learned quite a bit about the program, but I'm still far from an expert. After I grew tired of failing at new software, I wanted to test out Camtasia Recording Studio a little more. I first got the demo disk at Flash Camp Philly last year and I used it for a presentation I gave at work, but never opened it after that.

I recorded how I drew Ned Zombie in Adobe Flash. Pretty much I just do a rough sketch then trace over that with basic shapes. I was in debate if I wanted to the cartoon to always look sketched out or if I wanted it to be more refined. Eventually I decided to do the more traditional method and have smooth lines.

New Comic

Posted a new comic on Punch Card Zombies' homepage. This one shows Sam's cubical at Zombeets, Inc. and also hints that he's the graphic designer of the advertising campaigns there. I haven't done too much research, but hopefully the internet isn't already saturated with web comics and cartoons about office zombies. Judging by the sudden surge of popularity of zombies, it very well might be done to death so to speak. I'm not trying to make any money off of the cartoon so I'm not really concerned, it's just a project I enjoy creating.

I got to play around with Toon Boom Animate over the weekend. It seems very similar to Flash in some aspects and very different from Flash in other aspects. I think with about a solid week of playing around with it I'd be comfortable enough to use it for animations. I may continue to make the first episode of Punch Card Zombies in Flash anyway since I already started the storyboard in instead of Toon Boom Storyboard Pro.