Toon Boom Animate 2 - The Most Reliable Flash Animator's Companion.
Toon Boom Animate 2 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.
All-in-one Animation Software. Toon Boom Animate adapts to your creative ways, whether you are trained in traditional or Flash-style animation. From start to finish, Animate enables you to draw digitally or scan paper drawings, colour, animate, synchronize sound, set camera moves, apply effects and render your projects in the leading output formats.
True Space. Toon Boom Animate comes with a powerful camera tool that enables you to move your 2D objects in a full 3D environment. Enjoy the beauty of the built-in multiplane camera when you set up your action in real-time and effortlessly while seating comfortably in the director's chair.
Smart Puppet. Toon Boom Animate brings together the most advanced Flash animation feature set available on the market, all embedded in a flexible environment; vector, bitmap, symbols, pegs, morphing, hierarchy-based rigging, forward and inverse kinematics as well as advanced lip-sync to name just a few. In addition to its Flash shortcut set, Animate fits so nicely into your friendly circle of Adobe� products and animation techniques that you will feel at home in minutes.
Colour Tune. Toon Boom Animate shines when it comes to colouring and creating animation with a unique look and feel. Animate�s Smart Colour ID system, palette management, painting tools using vector, gradient and texture translate into significant time-savings. At any point, changing character colours and fine-tuning colour ambiance is faster than filling up your coffee cup!
What�s New in Animate 2 - Professional Animation Software:
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
