Own Your Creativity with New Toon Boom Animate Family

Own Your Creativity with New Toon Boom Animate Family


MONTREAL, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Two-time Emmy award recipient,
Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced today the pre-launch of Toon Boom® Animate(TM) 3 and Toon Boom® Animate Pro(TM) 3, ideal for frame-by-frame and cut-out rigging animation respectively.
With these new versions, Toon Boom has reorganized its product line to
give each of these products a clear set of capabilities required for
the animation style of your choice.


Animate 3 is the ideal software for paperless, frame-by-frame animation. Whether
it's your first time using animation technology, or if you're a
professional looking for a new solution, you can learn Animate in no
time. As for Animate Pro 3, this is the best software for doing cut-out style animation. You can
build character rigs, animate, and do special effects--all in one
software.



Toon Boom Animate 3 highlights:



-- True Pencil
Animate 3 gives you the ability to draw with True Pencil, a
pencil line with variable thickness that supports pressure
sensitivity. Draw clean lines with the pencil and have the
ability to modify the lines easily. You can apply the style
across hundreds of drawings. Incorporate texture on your lines
for cool effects.
-- Texture Brushes
Animate allows you to draw with texture brushes using the Brush
tool. Take advantage of this to do rough drawings just like you
would on paper, simulating that pencil-on-paper feeling.
-- Tool Presets Toolbar
When creating paperless animation, you often want to save
frequently used brushes or pencils so you can quickly go back
to those preferences. Using the new Tool Presets toolbar, you
can save presets for any tool, remembering the properties of
that tool.


Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 highlights:



-- Bone Deform
Animate Pro 3 now comes with Bone-style Deform! Bring your
cut-out characters to the next level by adding deformers to
bend drawings around bones and articulations. Apply deform to
vector drawings, textures, or imported bitmaps.
-- True Pencil
Animate Pro 3 gives you the ability to draw with True Pencil, a
pencil line with variable thickness that supports pressure
sensitivity. Draw clean lines with the pencil and have the
ability to modify the lines easily. Incorporate texture on your
lines for cool effects.
-- Tool Presets Toolbar
When working in cut-out animation, you often want to save
standard brush or pencil settings for different areas of your
character rig. Using the new Tool Presets toolbar, you can save
presets for any tool, remembering the properties of that tool.


Both products are now supercharged on a 64-bit core. This gives you the freedom to use more of the computer's resources,
and output high-resolution files for a professional-quality production.
In addition, they both support standard two-finger Touch Gestures for zooming, rotating, and scaling of the canvas, when using a tablet.
 Finally, they both benefit from interface enhancements designed to simplify workflow and streamline the animation process.


Pricing and Availability

During this time-limited pre-launch period, you can buy Toon Boom
Animate 3 for $599 US and Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 for $999 US - a
saving of $100 US. Customers will receive a version 2 license which
will be replaced by version 3 upon release. Customers owning previous
versions of Animate and Animate Pro may upgrade on release day only.



Information about Toon Boom Animate family is now available online at: toonboom.com/animate3

About Toon Boom Animation Inc.
Toon Boom Animation Inc. (toonboom.com), a Corus(®) Entertainment Inc. company and a 2012 and 2005 Primetime Emmy
Engineering Award recipient, is the worldwide leader in digital content
and animation creation software, delivering products and services
online to its global community. Toon Boom carries user-friendly
applications for all, catering to children, home users, creative
professionals as well as students, educators and schools. Toon Boom is
fully dedicated to education and goes far beyond just developing
technology and curriculums that enhance the classroom experience. Toon
Boom is an influential advocate of bringing industry and education
together, while partnering with value-added partners to help students
achieve their goals.



At the high-end studio level, Toon Boom offers a wide product range from
powerful pre-production tools to leading-edge animation production
solutions. Relying on its extensive expertise in animation production,
Toon Boom provides consulting services in the fields of optimization,
pipeline integration, production assistance and custom development.



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Copyright © 2013 Toon Boom Animation Inc. All rights reserved. Toon Boom(®) is a registered trademark and Animate(TM), Animate Pro(TM), and the Toon Boom
logo are trademarks of Toon Boom Animation Inc. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.


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TOON BOOM ANIMATION INC.

CONTACT: Toon Boom Animation Inc.
Karina Bessoudo, VP, Marketing
kbessoudo@toonboom.com
+1 514 490 6479


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