Toon Boom Studio 3.5 review
DownloadToon Boom Studio™ puts powerful creative tools in your hands and increases your productivity so that you can focus on what counts - your story, your characters and your vision.
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Toon Boom Studio™ puts powerful creative tools in your hands and increases your productivity so that you can focus on what counts - your story, your characters and your vision. With optimized output to Macromedia® Flash™ and QuickTime®, you can easily output your animations to the web, video, wireless and beyond.
Toon Boom Studio is ideal for individuals looking for an all-in-one animation solution, from drawing digitally, scanning hand-drawn animations, seamlessly importing existing artwork, to lip-syncing the animation, setting up the action in a 3D space and publishing animation projects for TV, HDTV, the Web and iPod!
Here are some key features of "Toon Boom Studio":
Content Creation
Full screen rotating drawing table
Virtual light table
Pressure sensitivity for variable lines thickness
Transform tool
Skew tool
Cutter tool
Scissors tool
Text tool
Intuitive drawing and shape tools
Full onion skinning
Standard field charts for cartoon animation
Bitmap vectorization
Auto feed scanner support
Drawing in 3D Sceneplanning
Full support for digital graphic tablet
Anti-aliasing in Mac OS X
Ink and Paint
Auto gap closing feature
Manual easy gap closing tools
Powerful color palettes with unique palette styles
Easy organisation of your swatches
Automatic update of painted zones with palette changes
Bitmap textures
Lip Sync
Sound analyser for automated lipsynching
Automatic lip chart generation
Easy Lipsynching with automatic drawing mapping
3D Layout and Camera
3D layout and motion paths for animation
Top Side and Camera view to get the ultimate shot
Multiplane camera moves and effects
Velocity profiles
Unique cell-swapping panel
Color transformation and clipping effects
Improved visualization and manipulation of key frames from the Timeline
Drawing in 3D Sceneplanning
Reuse
Global, local and external libraries of templates
Template preview and editing
Support for all major multimedia files as templates
Export media links as movie clips for reduced file size
Sound Synchronization
Support all major audio formats for the Mac and PC
Support for multiple soundtracks
Envelope editing
Sound streaming for perfect sycrhonization
Sound scrubbing
Import Files
Animation: Macromedia Flash SWF
Vector: AI (Adobe Illustrator), PDF
Bitmap: BMP, TGA, GIF, PSD, JPEG, PICT, SGI, etc...
Sound: WAV, AIFF, MP3
Export
Macromedia Flash SWF
QuickTime with alpha channel and sound
AVI
DV Stream (NTSC/PAL/WideScreen/HDTV)
Image Sequences
General User Interface
Real-time playback
Unified user interface
Animation-standard Exposure Sheet, with support for creation of cycles
Multi-layered timeline
Unlimited undos
Peripheral Support
WACOM compatible tablets
Any device (scanner, digital camera) with TWAIN support.
Limitations:
30 days trial.
What's New:
Over 30 improvements to boost your productivity
New wizards to get you started faster
Improved user interface for a more intuitive experience
Dynamic special effects to create richer animation
Greater interoperability for a more flexible workflow
Over 275 templates included.
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