Bahi JDInterview
Freelance animator
Adapted from Bahi JD's interview on Uses This, published 18 September 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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At home, I work on an iMac 27" (3.4 GHz Intel Core i7) which I've upgraded to 16GB of RAM and a 2GB AMD Radeon HD 6970M.
I draw on the Wacom Intuos 4 (L, A4 size) which is not that necessary, actually - I think a medium size tablet would be enough.
For printing stuff and scanning my analog pencil drawings, I use the Epson Stylus SX218.
But for serious sound editing, I borrow the Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones from the university where I study multimedia (we have all kind of equipment there).
Productivity
Sometimes Google Docs also helps with animation x-sheets.
Notes
For writing the screenplay of my short-film (which is still in production) I used Final Draft, which a friend suggested to me.
Design
For drawing/sketch/illustration/storyboard, I use Photoshop CS5, and some plugins like Coolorus (a nice color picker) or Alien Skin's Exposure 4 (I like the grain options) and Bokeh 2.
Everything you see on my site is animated or drawn in Flash (except the latest ones, which are EasyToon).
There's something similar to EasyToon on the Nintendo DS called Flipnote Studio.
Media
Sometimes I just plugin the earphones to the iPhone 4 and listen to my Soundcloud favorites at work.
Basically the whole CS5 package for most of my work, except Final Cut Pro for film editing.
Storage
While I work with Japan, we share all the files through Dropbox or email mainly.
Other
It's very simple animation software, but sadly only for Windows (thankfully there's Boot Camp for the Mac - I forgot to mention that I work on OS X Lion).