Toon Boom Studio: Detailed Features

Colored features are new to Studio 4

Content Creation

  • 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

  • Support for Illustrator layers
  • Import and Vectorize with Textures
  • Import and Vectorize Preview
  • Animation: Macromedia Flash SWF
  • Vector: AI (Adobe Illustrator), PDF
  • Bitmap: BMP,TGA, GIF, JPEG, PICT, SGI, PSD...
  • Sound: WAV, AIFF, MP3

Publishing

  • 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

  • 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