In this oh-so-festive time of year what kind of blogger would I be without doing something for Thanksgiving? This article will show you how to create your own cartoon turkey with Toon Boom. If you don’t feel like making your own turkey drawing, you should feel free to download the free Toon Boom template here.

Note that this template will be drawn with Toon Boom 4.0, so if you’ve recently upgraded to 4.5 some of these screenshots may not look identical to your version of Toon Boom.

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Animating is far more enjoyable when the characters you’re working with have a strong personality, and the recorded voice audio is of high quality. Cheese is an amazingly funny character from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, a great show on Cartoon Network. This Toon Boom tutorial will walk you through recreating this short commercial found on YouTube:

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In a previous animation tutorial we discussed the steps necessary to create your own cartoon. I’ve since come to the conclusion that the article, while complete, was a bit too complex for a beginner and contained too many steps. The animation tutorial has been condensed into a more succinct five steps that will be used in the future. All Calico Monkey animation projects will follow this five step plan from now on, so expect to be referred to this page in the future.

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Creating Flash animation for the internet involves a diverse set of skills, each one seemingly more important than the last. Not all of these steps are required and the order listed is only a general order, but following this outline will help you create your own cartoon.

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