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 star
t 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