Toon Boom Studio™ - the complete 2D animation application for creative professionals Version 2.0. Featuring mighty drawing tools, time-saving lip sync tools, and innovative 3D camera and scene planning tools, Toon Boom Studio will
unleash your creative potential and increase your productivity so that you can focus on what counts - your story, your characters and your dream. With optimized output to Macromedia® Flash™, and QuickTime® , you can easily broadcast your creations on the web or experiment with other production possibilities. Now, with Toon Boom Studio V2, you will enjoy greater power to create enchanting and engaging
animations. Cinematic control with multiplane camera and multidimensional tweening - Lay out and move elements in 3D stage. Frame your scene with the scene camera, which you can also use to create cinematic zooming and panning effects.
- Create multiplane effects - use pegs to move cameras and elements to add depth to your movies.
- Use the visual library browser to share and reuse animation elements across scenes and productions.
- Sit back while the system automatically interpolates size, rotation, and position changes (in-betweens) Control timing and sequence with industry-standard tools
- Import, organize and synchronize all
drawing, image, bitmap,sound and multimedia fi les in the Exposure Sheet. Track the timing of each object and maximize reuse of recurring images.
- Create a storyboard with the Exposure Sheet and convert it easily into an animatic that you can also use to develop fi nal material.
- Rename, hide and manipulate the timing of entire elements with the
Timeline window.
New in V2 Drawing - Draw with a Polyline tool to create closed, vector shapes of any dimension.
- Paint vector shapes with bitmap textures.
- Auto-gap closing for speed painting
- Even speedier painting with auto-paint
- Optimize vector shapes for output to the web.
- Improved stroke identifi cation so that you can easily close zones.
New in V2 Sound - Automap lip charts to lip drawings for fast and effi cient lip syncing of voice tracks.
- Sound scrubbing so you can fi ne-tune lip assignment.
- Support for sound streaming. Import
- and export SWF fi les with streamed sound.
New in V2 Export - Export media links as Macromedia Flash movie clips to decrease fi le size.
- QuickTime export includes all sound modifi cations you add.
- Improved optimization options for SWF output.
Clever drawing tools give you ultimate creative control - Draw directly into Toon Boom Studio with classic, vector drawing tools that make it easy to control your lines.
- See through the layers of your animated drawings with the Onion Skin and Light Table to animate precisely,
frame-by-frame.
- Power paint your drawings, use the advanced palette management system to change colors at any time and watch your drawings repaint themselves!
- Import and vectorize your hand-drawn creations and enjoy full, vector line control in Toon Boom Studio.
- Mix
essential media formats - images, sound, even live-action into your animated production. Merge sound and image to create a complete multimedia experience
- Edit sound clips, create effects like fades and loops. Automatically generate lip charts and save time lip syncing characters to their voice tracks! Output movies in different languages, easily. Export stunning movies, optimized for industry-standard formats
- Output to Macromedia Flash SWF - optimize fi le size and generate reusable symbol library.
- Output to QuickTime - control resolution, frame rate and aspect ratio.
- Output an iMovie project. Use iMovie to merge home movies and animation!
- Render an internal playback in real-time to validate changes at any step of your production.
Paperless - Pen style with pressure support for variablewidth lines
- Digital Light Table
- Sketching and cleaning tools
- Standard drawing and shape tools
- Onion skinning
- Rotary Light Table
- Standard field chart for cartoon animation
- Bitmap vectorization
- Ink & Paint
- Unlimited color palettes
- Manual gap closing tools
- Unlimited number of colors per palette
- Ability to name and organize color swatches
- Automatic update of painted zones with palette changes
- Global palette tinting
- Auto gap closing tools
- Painting with bitmap textures
Reuse - Global and local templates for reuse in any animation
- Support for all major multimedia fi les as templates
- Template
preview and editing Export media links as movie clips for reduced file size
Lip Sync - Automatic phoneme analysis from soundtrack
- Automatic lip chart generation
- Automatic mapping of lip charts to lip drawings Sound Synchronization
- Support for multiple soundtracks.
- Envelope creation for fades
- Precision synchronization of sound to frame and time
- Master volume control
- Sound streaming
- Sound scrubbing
- Additional Information
Multiplane Lay Out and Camera - 3D layout and motion paths for animation elements
- Multiplane camera moves and effects
- 3D velocity profi les Color transformation and clipping effects
Import Filers - Animation: Macromedia Flash SWF Vector: AI (Illustrator), PDF
- Bitmap: BMP, TGA, GIF, PSD, JPEG, PICT, SGI
- Sound: WAV, AIFF, MP3
Output - Macromedia Flash SWF
- QuickTime
- Plazmic Mobile SVG
- Audio: raw PCM and ADPCM
Peripheral Support Playback Support General User Interface - Real-time playback
- Animation-standard Exposure Sheet, with support for creation of cycles
- Multi-layered timeline
- Multiple undos
Macintosh: System Requirements - Power Macintosh® G4 (recommended) or G3
- Mac OS X or Mac OS X v10.1
- 128 MB of system RAM
- 100 MB of available hard disk space
- 24-bit color display with at least 8MB Video RAM, capable of 1024x768 resolution
- Wacom® Tablet (recommended)
PC: System Requirements - 233 MHz Intel® Pentium® II or higher processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP, 2000, 98 or ME
- 128 MB of system RAM
- 100 MB of available hard disk space
- 24-bit color display with at least 8MB Video RAM, capable of 1024x768 resolution
- Wacom® Tablet (recommended)
About Toon Boom Technologies
Based in Montréal, Canada, Toon Boom Technologies Inc. is a worldleadingsupplier of 2D animation software for businesses and individuals. With a
presence in more than 30 countries, Toon Boom Technologies provides a complete suite of high-performance, web-enabled animation tools and services to creators and producers of 2D animation, including USAnimation®, USAnimation® Web Edition and Toon Boom Studio™. Headquarters:
7 Laurier Street East
Montreal (Quebec)
CANADA H2T 1E4 |
