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Toon Boom Digital Pro: Detailed Features

General

Digital Drawing

• Pencil tool to draw center line stroke
• Brush tool to draw pressure sensitive contour line stroke with tablet
• Pressure sensitive Eraser tool available on all vector drawing
• Convert Center line to Contour and the opposite
• Use different texture brushes to create other line styles like pencil on paper, watercolour, etc
• Line Art and Colour Art layer available to keep line and painted color independent
• User friendly navigation in your drawing with virtual animation disk to simulate panning, zooming and rotation
• Duplicate and manipulate vector-based drawings such as position, scale, rotate, skew, flip or perspective
• Access a full range of digital tools such as cut, copy, paste, scale, rotate, squash, stretch, etc.
• Access a full set of tools to edit contours (contour editor, smooth)
• Use the light table and multi-level onion skinning features with flexible display available such as outline or fade
• Display bitmap images and/or live-action for rotoscoping
• Deform vector line to change its shape
• Adjust line texture opacity to balance opacity and contrast of vector texture based drawings
• Slice drawings with Freehand or rectangle Cutter tool
• Find quickly a color in a palette with the Dropper tool
• Use shape Ellipse, Line, Polyline or Rectangle shape for fast construction of geometric elements
• Flatten vector strokes to merge and remove overlapped lines
• Use Optimize to flatten vector strokes while preserving the visual aspect
• Display square, 12 field or 16 field Grid to register elements
• Mark In-Between, Breakdown, Keyframe drawings for precise frame by frame animation
• Reposition drawings from all cels instantly for immediate image manipulation

Palette and Colour

• Access 16 million colours; unlimited fill colours, line colours, transparencies per layer
• Create an unlimited number of palettes
• Create unlimited number of colour pots per palette
• Edit Gradient / Texture tool
• Fill palette colour pots with flat colours, gradients or bitmap textures depending on your animation look.
• Clone palettes to preserve dependencies
• Duplicate palettes to copy all the colours and have them independent

Paint

• Paint a single drawing, several sequences, or all drawings in a level simultaneously
• Paint colour art, re-colour line art, and check for paint errors
• Visualize line texture while you paint
• Paint with bitmap textures and gradients
• Close gap tools to manually close gaps
• Close gaps automatically on all your drawings
• Auto-paint all art levels simultaneously
• Manage colour models in independent views
• Paint quickly at all output resolutions
• Use Backlight for instant verification of the completeness of the paint process
• Highlight selected colour to select specific colour instantly

Libraries

• Create a library of animated elements and animated sequences
• Store multiple elements with their own drawings
• Create a library of effects
• Store movements with their own functions and transformations
• Preview drawings in real-time
• Swap drawings easily to manage media assets

Animation

• Create your in-betweening using the morphing tools
• Create natural-looking animation with IK tools
• Automatically generate lip charts and save time lip-syncing characters to voice tracks
• Position all elements interactively
• Create 3D trajectories for elements and camera
• Auto-calculate elements perspective in relation to camera position
• Auto-calculate different focuses on various elements
• Create complex movements with a hierarchy of elements and cameras
• Preview elements and camera moves in real-time
• View multi-plane perspective in real-time
• Preview line texture, gradients, textures, tones, highlights and cutters
• Create a peg or function automatically
• Click and drag positioning of elements and cameras
• Work simultaneously with multiple aspect ratios
• Increase bitmap preview resolution
• Pan and Scan in real-time using multiple aspect ratios
• Rotate, scale, translate and skew multiple elements at the same time
• Use Drawing substitution to swap elements easily on-the-fly

Timeline

• Display pegs and elements by hierarchy
• Use sound scrubbing on a frame-by-frame basis
• Set up groups of drawings, pegs and motion paths
• Easily create new elements and drawings
• Effortlessly create new motion paths and animated drawings
• Drag and drop keyframes, elements, motion paths and element transformations
• Display effects and their keyframes
• Display Audio waveform

Xsheet

• Emulates a traditional exposure sheet
• Create, edit and save exposure sheets
• Print exposure sheets
• Automatically build the timing in your exposure sheet with simple click and drag
• Use expression columns to create values for an effect based on mathematical operations
• Control the velocity values with Bezier or ease function curves; control the values in other columns with these functions
• Copy and paste cells with drag and drop
• Automatically visualize and update groups and hierarchies

Effects & Compositing

• Change output resolution without rescanning or repainting
• Blur Effects: Directional Blur, Radial Blur, Variable Blur, Focus, Matte blur and Motion Blur
• Colour Effects: Colour Card, Colour Scale, Colour Override, Colour Screen, Contrast, Greyscale, Remove Transparency, Transparency, Negate
• Image Effects: Anti Flicker, Dither, Crop, Cutter, External, Highlight, Tone, and Gradient
• Deformation Effects: Glue, Refract, Glow, Shadow, Pixelate, Grain, Scale, Line Art, Colour Art, Matte Resize, Quadmap
• Use the external node to perform additional effects with external programs
• Control line thickness when zooming-in
• Create mattes directly in the Frame View
• Use the network navigator that helps to manage large networks
• Scale vector artwork infinitely without pixilation
• Use any output resolution and aspect ratio
• Easily pan and zoom in the Network Effects View window
• Automatically connect Network modules, as well as reorder network cables
• Insert Network modules seamlessly between existing modules
• Intuitively drag and drop network modules
• Drag and drop to create Group modules
• Visualize data in tree views for groups, moves and effects
• Develop your own special effects plug-in using Digital Pro SDK
• Add notes to your network for reminder and collaborative work

Playback

• Play back current scene or external media inside Digital Pro
• Use integrated playback view to preview special effects
• Play back animation with sound in-sync
• Play back as a floating window or a stand-alone application
• View frame sequences at full D1 resolution
• Play back up to 60 fps

Import

• Bitmap TGA, PSD, PNG, JPEG, BMP, YUV, PAL, SGI, SCAN
• Import QuickTime video as sequence of images
• Vector TVG, SWF, PDF, AI
• Audio MP3, WAV, AIFF

Scan

• TWAIN support
• Automatic Feeder support (ADF)
• Register peg holes automatically
• Scan your drawings in black and white or greyscale
• Auto-assemble your drawings for paint
• Colour scan pre-coloured drawings and backgrounds
• Auto-splice pan cels (characters and backgrounds)
• Capture nuances of hand-drawn lines (using true-line vectorization and line texture)
• Preserve original line textures such as pencil, crayon or chalk
• Use advanced cleaning tools to remove dirt and hair easily

Render

• Render to any resolution and aspect ratio such as NTSC, PAL, HDTV, film (1K, 2K, 4K) and beyond
• Support Field rendering for interlaced format
• Optionally disable field rendering per pegs
• Command line render application
• Output to QuickTime Movie, Flash SWF and image sequence TGA, PSD, YUV, PNG, SGI, etc…