The following page is a general overview of Toonz 4.6; it is also available as a .ppt file ready to be downloaded.

More detailed information you can use for doing your presentation are available in the VoiceOver_Presentation.doc file, while the How to Sell Toonz.ppt file will help you to describe Toonz in general and to talk about the production flow, the licensing policy and the future pitch.

What is Toonz?

• Inknpaint and compositing system
• Designed for traditional cel animators, for creation of film, video andinteractive media
• Designed to emulate the traditional animation process
• Familiar and straightforward user interface that makes the user comfortable from the very beginning
• Original drawing style of the animator preserved
• Provides tools to accelerate and improve time-consuming tasks
• Allows to develop projects unachievable or simply too expensive using traditional means.
• Delivers superb final quality

Why Toonz?

• More than an ink ‘n’ paint package, it is a complete production system
• Production proven in motion picture projects
• Therefore working on video or multimedia will be very FAST !
• Digital Video sole focus
• Means word-wide distribution and rigorous quality assurance
• More than 2,200 licenses installed worldwide
• Completely re-engineered for the Windows porting
• Ready for rapid future developments to meet the industry's needs
• Rapid development is not a will, is a solid fact.

Key Accounts

• Production proven on film
  • Amblimation/Universal Picture
    • "Balto" was the first ever film done start-to-end with Toonz
      
      
  • Fox Animation
    • "Anastasia" has already become the most successful non-Disney animation movie of the story and is the first Cinemascope format since decades. Toonz complements the superb animations of Don Bluth.
      
      
  • Munich Animation
    • "Fearless Four" their last theatrical motion picture project has been released by WB on Oct. 2nd,1997; Pavarotti among the voices.
      
      
  • Studio Ghibli
    • "Spirited Away", Golden Bear Award winner at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2002, with 15,8 millions $ only in the first weekend, has far surpassed previous successes like "Princess Mononoke".
      
      
  • Gerard Hahn Filmproduction
  • The complex sequence of the sea storm in Asterix in America was completely done with Toonz.
    
    
• Production proven on video
  • MTV
    • "Beavis and Butthead".
      
      
  • Varga Studios
    • Many important series: the last was Johnny Quest for Hanna & Barbera.
      
      
  • GSA - Digitoon Imaging
    
    • Among their products: "Footman" and "Kleo the Misfit Unicorn".
      
      
  • China Central Television
    • China's largest nationwide television network: CCTV has four nationwide channels reaching an audience of 450 million throughout China.
      
      
  • Rough Draft Studio
    • To be mentioned, among others, "The Maxx".
      
      
  • Toons Factory
    • Among their works "Jonny Quest" and "Nanook".
      
      
• Production proven on Multimedia
  • Psygnosys
    • Many popular interactive titles like "Discworld II" : character animations done with Toonz
      
  • Terraglyph Interactive
    • Among their titles: "Hansel & Gretel", "Rumpelstiltskin’s Labyrinth" and many others.
      
      
  • MTV - Viacom New Media
    • Their first Toonz title was "Beavis and Butthead".
      
      
  • Time Warner Interactive
    • Uses Toonz for character animation in their interactive titles.

Tools which Help the Toonz User

• Toonz Web site: http://www.toonz.com
  • Users have a dedicated area
• Support:
  • gives you free upgrades
  • hot-line support
  • is handled by the developers of the product
  • covers two shifts
• Educational Program
  • tool to spread the toonz knowledge among new users
• Training
• available at your premises
• charged by the group

Toonz Configurations

• Toonz Ink & Paint
  • The I&P package has many more features enabled. All modules except xsheet, mattedit, ImageLibrary D-Kit and the Flash composer
• Toonz Ink & Paint Lite
  • A lighter and less expensive version of I&P. This version features the same capabilities of I&P, but without the Scan and Cleanup modules.
• Toonz Animation Render & Color Model
  • All modules except inknpaint and vectorization tool in I&P
• Toonz Render Only
  • Composer and many other modules which are common to each License Type; among them: bgtiler, batches, rec, filemanager, toonzaudio, flip and the utilities
• Toonz Scan&Cleanup
  • Starting from 4.5, you can purchase inexpensive Scan&Cleanup seats.
• Toonz Studio
  • All features are enabled
• Toonz Studio TV
  • All features are enabled but the output resolution is locked to TV resolution (PAL, NTSC)
• Toonz Edu
  • Aggressively priced version, only available for Universities and Colleges for educational purposes. All the features are enabled.

Hardware Requirements

• Windows NT/2000/XP Platform
  • Pentium based PC with 200 MHz CPU and 96 MB for video, 128 MB for film
  • Graphics Cards: 65536 color or higher graphics board display supported
    
• SGI platforms
• all of them that support 6.x operating system, latest models included
• Toonz runs on any graphics on Irix versions
• Linux platforms
  • Workstation with Intel Pentium II or higher processor
  • Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3
    
  • 128 MB RAM minimum
    
  • 65536 color graphics board display supported
    
• Input/Output
  • New scanners directly supported by Toonz 4.6.
    • Epson color scanners*
      GT-6500 aka ES-600C
      GT-7000 aka Perfection 630
      GT-7600 aka Perfection 1200
      GT-7700 aka Perfection 1240U
      GT-8000
      GT-8500
      GT-8700 aka Perfection 1640SU
      GT-9000
      GT-9600 aka Expression 800
      GT-10000+ aka ES-6000H
      GT-12000 aka ES-8000 aka Expression 836XL
      GT-30000 aka ES-9000H
      Perfection 1650
      Perfection 2450
      Expression 1600 aka ES-2000
      Expression 1640XL aka ES-8500
      Expression 1680
      
    • Ricoh color scanners**
      
    IS 330DC
    *Epson scanners at the moment are not directly supported under Windows 2000 due to an OS bug. **Custom DPI values not supported
    
    
  • Any other scanner supported via TWAIN drivers
    
    
  • Black and white
  • Ricoh® suited to mass volume / A3 / ADF
    IS 410, IS 420 from Toonz 4.1 on
    IS 410, IS 420, IS 430 and Aficio IS 01 from Toonz 4.2 on
    IS 410, IS 420, IS 430, IS 450 and Aficio IS 01 from Toonz 4.3 on
    
  • Bell+Howell; Ricoh® rebranded
    4000F, 5000F, 6000F, 500FB from Toonz 4.2 on
    
  • Fujitsu® suited to mass volume / A3 / ADF
    M3096 Family from Toonz 4.1 on
    M3096/7/9 Families from Toonz 4.2 on
  • Color
    • Hewlett Packard also allow black and white scanning / A4
      HP ScanJet 4C from Toonz 4.1 on
      HP ScanJet 4C, HP6100C from Toonz 4.2 on
      HP ScanJet 4C, HP6100C, HP6250C from Toonz 4.3 on
      
    • Fujitsu Scanpartner also allow black and white scanning / A4
      300C, 600C from Toonz 4.3 on
      
    • Sharp JX610 - A3
      Note that this model is actually out of production and it seems that Sharp doesn't produce scanner devices anymore.
      
    • Avision AV A3 - from Toonz 4.2 SP1 on
      
    • Avision AV A3 PLUS - from Toonz 4.3 on
      The only authorized AVISION reseller in Europe is
      BHS Gmbh
      Am Riedbach 3
      D-79774 Albbruck-Birndorf
      Germany
      
• Output
  • Networked Digital Disk Recorder via Ethernet (e.g. Abekas, Accom, etc.)
  • SierraQuickframe DDR, HP® 4:2:2 Video Disk Recorder via SCSI connection

Toonz also supports SGI Indy video.

Film devices (such as MGI Solitaire®) are not directly supported, but you can use these devices with third-party softwares.

• Graphics tablets
  • Most of the graphics tablets are connected to the parallel port, so as soon as they are recognized by the operating system, they are also recognized, that's to say supported, by Toonz.
    

Highlights of the new features in Toonz 4.6

• Windows XP platform supported.
  
• Linux 7.2 and 7.3 platform supported.
  
• New scanners supported in native mode.
  
• Levels and images retain ink line color when exported in
  Macromedia Flash format.
  
• Multiple selection available for Pins and Hooks for an
  easier management of textures and reference points.
  
• Keyboard arrows shortcuts for calibrating the Pins and
  Hooks position.
  
• Vectorization on the fly of Toonz levels when exporting to Flash from Xsheet.
  
• Option to export to Flash the Xsheet columns as separate
  layers.
  
• Avi format output supported both from the Preview window
  and in the final rendering.
  
• PNG format supported as input and output.
  
• New FXs added: Calligraphic, ArtContour, Tile, Blend TZ and Blend RGB.
  
• Calligraphic FX to control the line thickness of Toonz images.
  
• ArtContour FX to apply a pattern to the line of Toonz images for achieving hair or fur-like effect.
  
• Tile FX to tile an image and create a pattern that will always fill the camera shot.
  
• Blend FX to create smooth shading of colored areas of both Toonz and full-color images.
  
• The soundtrack can be used to drive channel values, e.g. to move the camera to the rhythm of the music.
  
• Option available to create aliasing along the edge of images when rendering in Multimedia mode.
  
• Automatic clapboard with Production, Scene and Animator information when rendering an xsheet.
  

Highlights of the new features in Scintillae 1.1

• Particles’color can be animated
• Particles can be now loaded from user's selected directory
• Crowds, bird flocks and complex random animation is now much easier
• Trail feature included in Particle
• Impressionist: canvas folder added
• Impressionist: brushes can be loaded from any directory
• Brushes Fx added: you can now animate your brushes
• Scripting capability added

Highlights of the new features in LineTest 3.0

• New composer implemented with dramatic improvement of
  the rendering speed.
  
• Smart preview behavior: if some editing is performed in the exposure sheet, only the frames affected by this editing will need to be recomputed.
  
• Play/Pause buttons in the preview window update/freeze the rendering of the scene.
  
• The video camera resolution can automatically fit the camera set for the scene, for an easier definition of the shot.
  
• Blind Overwrite mode to replace previously grabbed images.
  
• Configurations, such as preview and grab settings, and interface layout are stored and reused in the following sessions.
  
• Soundtrack is saved along with QuickTime and Avi movie.
  
• Framerate ranges from -50 to 50 fps, and is retained when a QuickTime or Avi movie is saved.
  
• Print xsheet feature to directly print on paper the exposure sheet contents.
  

Toonz plug-in for Softimage|XSI

• The plug-in reads the movements of the camera, objects and changes of the camera "field of view" in the 3D environment; then it computes the projections in the 2D Toonz environment.
• The output of this plug-in is a .xsh file for the Xsheet module of Toonz. This file contains all the information to move 2D levels on the 3D objects and background as if they are attached to the animated 3D environment.

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