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Toon Boom Studio Toon Boom Studio 4.0 with Studio 4 User Guideby Toon Boom
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Get a ahead on learning ToonBoom Studio 4 when you purchase this bundle.
The Toon Boom Studio 4 User Guide (over 450 pages) provides detailed information on how to use the features of the software. It includes in-depth instructions on drawing, inking and painting, lip synching, staging, animating and creating effects, as well as other topics. It also includes seven tutorials that show you how to use key features in the software for the production of animated movies.
Toon Boom Studio 4 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!
What’s new in Studio 4?
New User Interface
The new Studio 4 user interface offers unparalleled flexibility and allows you to create any combination of windows opened at the same time. Users can dock windows together to save space or create an unlimited amount of workspaces for a fully customized user interface.
Photo Animation Made Easy
Import and Vectorize with Texture is a powerful new feature that allows you to animate bitmap images or photographs similarly to any other vector drawing made inside Studio 4. Use this feature for digital cut-out animation with photos or simply have fun using lip sync on your home pictures.
Line Styles
In addition to the standard round dot, Studio 4 now offers a series of different brushes to create a multitude of line styles, including calligraphic painting.
Feather Edges
Create vector blur or glow effects by simply softening the edges of your vector drawing with the new Feather Edges feature.
More Peg Functionalities
Easily create new types of motion effects with the new peg functionalities, including the peg's Orient to Path feature that rotates your element to follow the motion path's orientation.
Advanced Web Publishing Options
In addition to the new Export Snapshot feature, Studio 4 offers more web publishing options for both QuickTime and Flash output formats. Publish directly to HTML with instant embedding or include pre-loader in your Flash files for seamless playback on the Internet.
Over 30 New Features and Improvements
Studio 4 also includes: support of Adobe Illustrator layers, the Vectorize Preview window, improved drawing tools, improved timeline, Alpha Onion Skinning and support of Tablet PC OS (for Windows XP and Vista).
Features:
Create Content
Toon Boom Studio offers intuitive and easy-to-use drawing tools. Developed by animators for animators, these drawing tools allow you to concentrate on what's really important: your story! In addition to onion-skinning features, a customizable grid, auto gap-closing and much more, Toon Boom Studio's powerful color palette system is a great timesaver and enables you to set up multiple palette styles.
Animation Software: Automated Lip-sync
Toon Boom Studio is the only software for creative minds that offers fully automated lip-syncing capabilities. Unlike the competition, Toon Boom Studio analyzes sound files and is completely language independent. Just import your sound file and click the lip-sync button to get the job done.
Animation Software: Template Library
Organize, save and re-use all of your assets and animations easily with the Toon Boom Studio Template Library. The template library is easy to use and can contain all kinds of media files like movies, photo collections, artwork from leading software packages including SWF, AI, PDF, PSD, JPEG, TGA and GIF file formats and much more.
Animation Software: Animating Elements
New in Toon Boom Studio V3.5, the animated elements make the animation process as easy as 1-2-3. Toon Boom Studio offers you a convenient tool to animate all sorts of elements over time. The transform tool allows you to animate motion, scaling, rotation and skewing using automatic key frame insertion into the time line. So everyone can animate!
Animation Software: Scene Layout
It’s simple to set up a scene in Toon Boom Studio. It takes only seconds to populate a scene with templates, using drag-and-drop and sceneplanning tools. Create an animation automatically with rotation, scaling, motion and skewing tools and making full use of Toon Boom Studio’s powerful animation peg system.
Animation Software: Camera Moves
Unlike any other software, Toon Boom Studio uses a camera in a virtual 3D environment to set the action. Be the director of your own masterpiece and create stunning visual effects in seconds setting up multiple cameras and using the camera, side and top views to plan your scene.
Animation Software: Drop Shadow
With the new dynamic drop shadow effect layer, it is easy to add astonishing special effects to your scene. Create convincing animation special effects with ease no matter how complicated your animations are. The dynamic drop shadow works well with any kind of elements as well as with groups of elements or even cut-out characters.
Animation Software: Publish
Toon Boom Studio creates high quality animation for the Web, iPods, PDAs, cell phones, TV, HDTV and more. Whether you use Toon Boom Studio to share your animations with your friends and family members by email or to produce high quality video for broadcasting, Toon Boom Studio supports the right format you need, including SWF, QuickTime, AVI, DV Streams, image sequences and more.
System Requirements
Macintosh
Power Macintosh G5, G4 (Minimum), or Intel® CoreTM processors
Mac OS X v10.4.7 (Tiger)
512 MB Ram (Recommended), 256 MB (Minimum)
120 MB of available hard disk space
24-bit color display, with 64 MB (Recommended)or 8 MB (Minimum) video RAM, capable of 1024x768 resolution
Wacom Tablet (Recommended)
Windows
800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (Minimum)
Microsoft Windows VISTA, XP or 2000
512 MB Ram (Recommended), 256 MB ((Minimum)
120 MB of available hard disk space
24-bit color display with 32 MB Video RAM or more, capable of 1024x768 resolution
Wacom Tablet (Recommended)
The Toon Boom Studio 4 User Guide (over 450 pages) provides detailed information on how to use the features of the software. It includes in-depth instructions on drawing, inking and painting, lip synching, staging, animating and creating effects, as well as other topics. It also includes seven tutorials that show you how to use key features in the software for the production of animated movies.
Toon Boom Studio 4 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!
What’s new in Studio 4?
New User Interface
The new Studio 4 user interface offers unparalleled flexibility and allows you to create any combination of windows opened at the same time. Users can dock windows together to save space or create an unlimited amount of workspaces for a fully customized user interface.
Photo Animation Made Easy
Import and Vectorize with Texture is a powerful new feature that allows you to animate bitmap images or photographs similarly to any other vector drawing made inside Studio 4. Use this feature for digital cut-out animation with photos or simply have fun using lip sync on your home pictures.
Line Styles
In addition to the standard round dot, Studio 4 now offers a series of different brushes to create a multitude of line styles, including calligraphic painting.
Feather Edges
Create vector blur or glow effects by simply softening the edges of your vector drawing with the new Feather Edges feature.
More Peg Functionalities
Easily create new types of motion effects with the new peg functionalities, including the peg's Orient to Path feature that rotates your element to follow the motion path's orientation.
Advanced Web Publishing Options
In addition to the new Export Snapshot feature, Studio 4 offers more web publishing options for both QuickTime and Flash output formats. Publish directly to HTML with instant embedding or include pre-loader in your Flash files for seamless playback on the Internet.
Over 30 New Features and Improvements
Studio 4 also includes: support of Adobe Illustrator layers, the Vectorize Preview window, improved drawing tools, improved timeline, Alpha Onion Skinning and support of Tablet PC OS (for Windows XP and Vista).
Features:
Create Content
Toon Boom Studio offers intuitive and easy-to-use drawing tools. Developed by animators for animators, these drawing tools allow you to concentrate on what's really important: your story! In addition to onion-skinning features, a customizable grid, auto gap-closing and much more, Toon Boom Studio's powerful color palette system is a great timesaver and enables you to set up multiple palette styles.
Animation Software: Automated Lip-sync
Toon Boom Studio is the only software for creative minds that offers fully automated lip-syncing capabilities. Unlike the competition, Toon Boom Studio analyzes sound files and is completely language independent. Just import your sound file and click the lip-sync button to get the job done.
Animation Software: Template Library
Organize, save and re-use all of your assets and animations easily with the Toon Boom Studio Template Library. The template library is easy to use and can contain all kinds of media files like movies, photo collections, artwork from leading software packages including SWF, AI, PDF, PSD, JPEG, TGA and GIF file formats and much more.
Animation Software: Animating Elements
New in Toon Boom Studio V3.5, the animated elements make the animation process as easy as 1-2-3. Toon Boom Studio offers you a convenient tool to animate all sorts of elements over time. The transform tool allows you to animate motion, scaling, rotation and skewing using automatic key frame insertion into the time line. So everyone can animate!
Animation Software: Scene Layout
It’s simple to set up a scene in Toon Boom Studio. It takes only seconds to populate a scene with templates, using drag-and-drop and sceneplanning tools. Create an animation automatically with rotation, scaling, motion and skewing tools and making full use of Toon Boom Studio’s powerful animation peg system.
Animation Software: Camera Moves
Unlike any other software, Toon Boom Studio uses a camera in a virtual 3D environment to set the action. Be the director of your own masterpiece and create stunning visual effects in seconds setting up multiple cameras and using the camera, side and top views to plan your scene.
Animation Software: Drop Shadow
With the new dynamic drop shadow effect layer, it is easy to add astonishing special effects to your scene. Create convincing animation special effects with ease no matter how complicated your animations are. The dynamic drop shadow works well with any kind of elements as well as with groups of elements or even cut-out characters.
Animation Software: Publish
Toon Boom Studio creates high quality animation for the Web, iPods, PDAs, cell phones, TV, HDTV and more. Whether you use Toon Boom Studio to share your animations with your friends and family members by email or to produce high quality video for broadcasting, Toon Boom Studio supports the right format you need, including SWF, QuickTime, AVI, DV Streams, image sequences and more.
System Requirements
Macintosh
Windows