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Toonz
"The Softimage toolset provides the most comprehensive integrated array of imaging tools, which allows a director's imagination to soar without compromising production and cost."
Peter Jungck, TerraGlyph Interactive
Toonz

Toonz: It's All About the Art
(and Productivity)

Nothing beats hand-drawn art for 2D cel animation - the subtlety, the nuance, the creative freedom of the medium. Digitize it and it loses heart, right? Wrong: With Toonz, you can capture the emotive quality of hand-drawn art - then fast forward through tedious steps like ink and paint, compositing and special effects. Designed by cel animation artists and producers, Toonz is an Xsheet-driven digital ink and paint program that precisely traces the steps of hand-drawn animation, giving you the familiar tools and process and all the efficiencies and options of a digitized medium.

The Best of Hand-Drawn Animation, The Best of Digital Magic

So, with Toonz you can keep the familiar workflow, keep the style and personality. Lose the labor of hand-painting tens of thousands of cels, lose the practical and expensive limitation of re-shoots. And gain real-time previews, smoother collaboration, and a faster path to the level of quality you want.

Digital Ink and Paint

Preserve the Quality, Expand Your Options

It's the ability to scan your drawings, keeping the artistic style and automatically register them according to peghole. The ability to scan an exact replica of watercolor backgrounds with all the original brush strokes and automatically register it. The control of setting your color palettes in stone for every member of the production team to guarantee that the colors are right in your Hong Kong and L.A. studios. The freedom in Xsheet to use unlimited levels on unlimited pegbars over an unlimited number of frames. The familiar traditional-style camera tools to create depth, movement and effects beyond traditional limitations. It's the power to preview in real time before film, avoiding countless re-shoots. The ability to import files from other software programs to quickly and easily create unique environments, characters, effects or motion. And it's cross-platform support for Windows NT® and SGI, so you can choose the combination of hardware that best fits your creative and financial needs. And finally - a long list of supported file formats so you can share work with other studios without worrying about compatibility.

 Toonz

New in 4.1

Cross platform compatibility. Choose or combine the Windows NT and SGI hardware that best fits the productions needs.
Credits
(Top Left) Linley Dodd's Hairy Maclary ©Animation by Gnome Productions
(Bottom Right)RAMM Productions

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