Toon Boom Studio: Detailed Features
Colored features are new to Studio 4.5
[-] Content Creation
- Supports live-action cartooning
- Supports rotoscoping
- Feather Edges
- Line Styles
- Photographs Animation
- Alpha Onion Skinning
- Content Creation
- Pressure sensitivity for variable width lines
- Digital light table
- Contour editor tool
- Free Transform tool
- Skew tool
- Sketching and cleaning tools
- Convert lines to brush
- Select Scene Operator
- Drop Shadows
- Different pen settings for Pen and Eraser
- Scissors tool
- Text tool
- Cutter tool
- Standard drawing and shape tools
- Onion skinning
- Outline onion skinning
- Rotary light table
- Standard field chart for cartoon animation
- Bitmap vectorization
- Scanner support
- Drawing in 3D scene planning
- Erasing with graphic tablet and digital pen
- OpenGL anti-aliasing
[+] Ink and Paint
- Unlimited color palettes
- Unlimited number of colors per palette
- Ability to name and organize color swatches
- Import and export palettes
- Automatic update of painted zones with palette changes
- Color Tranform tool (Flatten option)
- Palette styles
- Templates color management
- Copy paste texture and gradients mapping
- Global palette tinting
- Auto gap closing tools
- Painting with bitmap textures
[+] Lip Sync
- Automatic lip chart generation from voice tracks
- Automatic mapping of lip charts to lip drawings
[+] 3D Layout and Camera
- 3D layout and motion paths for animation elements
- Animated elements
- Animation peg System
- Advanced Motion Paths
- Multiplane camera moves and effects
- 3D velocity profiles
- Color transformation and clipping effects
- Copy frame properties to any key frame
- Improved visualization and manipulation of key frames from the Timeline
[+] Reuse
- Global and local templates for reuse in any animation
- Cell-swapping
- Support for all major multimedia files as templates
- Template preview and editing
- Export movie clips as media links for smaller file size
[+] Sound Synchronization
- Support for multiple soundtracks
- Fade envelopes
- Precision synchronisation of sound to frame and time
- Master volume control
- Sound streaming
- Sound scrubbing from the Timeline
[+] Import Files
- Import QuickTime videos with sound
- Support for Photoshop layers
- Support for Illustrator layers
- Import and Vectorize with Textures
- Import and Vectorize Preview
- Import Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects
- Animation: Macromedia Flash SWF
- Vector: AI (Adobe Illustrator), PDF
- Bitmap: BMP,TGA, GIF, JPEG, PICT, SGI, PSD...
- Sound: WAV, AIFF, MP3
[+] Publishing
- Print drawings to create flipbooks or use as a reference
- Export directly to iTunes and YouTube
- Export Snapshot
- Flash Pre loaders
- HTML Embeding
- Macromedia Flash SWF
- QuickTime
- QuickTime with alpha, sound
- PDF
- Color palette export in Flash files
- DV Stream
- AVI
- Image Sequences
[+] General User Interface
- Enhanced drag and drop capabilities
- Flexible Docking user interface
- Powerful workspace management
- Fast actions combo box
- Welcome Screen Wizard
- Simplified and improved timeline
- Unified user interface
- Velocity editor button in properties window
- Guide for straight actions
- Project dialog window with presets
- Simplified and improved Export window
- Enhanced dialog windows
- Tablet user friendly buttons
- Undo / redo buttons
- Minimize application when rendering
- File import menu option
- Double click actions
- Real-time playback
- Animation-standard exposure sheet, with support for cycle creation
- Multi-layered timeline
- Multiple undos
[+] Peripheral Support
- Windows Tablet PC (XP & Vista)
- WACOM compatible tablet
- Any device (scanner, digital camera) with TWAIN support
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