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Toon Boom Animate

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

Toon Boom Animate Key Features: Animation

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

Toon Boom Animate Key Features: Publication

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

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Latest features in Toon Boom Animate

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System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2 GHz Intel® Core Duo processor
1GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
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

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

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