Toon Boom Animate

Toon Boom Animate is a unique all-in-one vector-based professional animation software that includes content creation, compositing and delivery to audiences no matter what the media. Ideal for the professional Flash animator and educator, Toon Boom Animate is the most complete Flash-style animation software for paperless creation.

User Profiles:

• Flash animators
• Digital animators
• Web designers
• Students

Key Benefits:

• True animation tool
• Flexible rigging techniques
• Integrated lip-sync tool
• Impressive 3D camera

Features:

The Best Animation Toolset, Period

Toon Boom Animate offers powerful vector-based drawing tools, superior timeline with symbols support, a robust library and interactive camera tools, offering significant timesaving benefits from start to finish. In addition, Animate includes morphing, inverse kinematics and compositing capabilities conveniently set within one application.

What's New In Animate 2

Content Creation Tools

• Fast distribution of character parts to layers
• Easy adjustment of velocity on multiple character parts
• Efficient creation of richer-looking ambiance
• Greater control during inverse kinematics manipulation
• Practical colour sample display
• Convenient text capability

Input/Output Capabilities

• Full-fledged SWF export with effects
• Fast SWF preview
• New sound display in Xsheet
• Direct import of scanned drawings (TWAIN)

Faster performance due to these major improvements:

• Improved HD image compositing (Disk Caching)
• Increased rendering speed (Multi-Threading)
• Optimized OpenGL support with better video card performance, refined anti-aliasing capability and real-time preview of effects (transparency, colour scale and colour override)
• Enhanced Effect preview with sound
• Over 100 performance improvements

Key Features:

All-In-One: Content Creation

• Superior drawing tools with multiple brush options
• Comfortable drawing position with the rotary light table, rotating canvas and onion skin
• Convenient text capability
• Added TWAIN support for scanning
• Excellent import capabilities

All-In-One: Animation

• Advanced animation tools with tweening, forward kinematics, cell swapping and transform tool
• Live sync of Xsheet and Timeline
• Smart combination of pegs and symbols

All-In-One: Effects

• Effects everywhere
• Easy access to the top 15 FX
• Richer looking FX with blending modes
• Full-fledged SWF Export with new vector effects

All-In-One: Publish

• Flexible export options as image sequence, Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV) and movie (QuickTime)

Colour Tune

• Fast colouring using palettes
• Fine-tune colour ambiance using cloning
• Well-established paint tools
• Smart colour effects with invisible lines
• Advanced textures and gradients paintings

Smart Puppet

• Smooth character motion using forward and inverse kinematics
• Sophisticated morphing
• Flexible rigging and hierarchy options
• Reusable library structure
• Automated lip-sync

True Space

• Integrated real-time camera
• Impressive depth movement on Z-axis
• Powerful motion path settings
• Efficient ease and velocity settings

System Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32 and 64 bits), Vista or XP
• 2GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
• 1GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• NVIDIA® or ATI® Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for activation
• Free Apple QuickTime® Player