Main Features
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features and improvements
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A
description of the Toonz
4.6 modules. |
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Toonz
is designed to simplify and
speed up the animation production
and includes tools for: importing
original pencil drawings and
adding changes when necessary;
building color models; inking
and painting; creating exposure
sheets; compositing; creating
special effects and recording
the final images to video or
film.
Among
the several Toonz features we
can mention:
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Easy to learn: thanks to its
friendly UI, Toonz allows
the animators to become productive
almost immediately.
- Flexible
database management tools
to quickly and easily access
your work.
- Supporting
directly a range of scanners,
and any scanner via TWAIN
drivers.
- Multi
center drawings scanning capability.
- Autocenter
tool to register the drawings
after the automatic scanning
session.
- Mirror
and Rotate options to handle
shadows and large images.
- Studio
Palette to store your productions
palettes; it can contain an
unlimited number of colors.
- File
locking mechanism to protect
levels being painted more
than one inknpainter at the
same time.
- Matchlines
feature to add shadow or highlight
lines.
- Patch
tool to split the image into
separate z-planes that can
hide or reveal part of the
level in Xsheet.
- Pins
option to animate and corner-pin
textures and patterns.
- Hooks
to keep a character from skating
or to track an image to a
specific animated point of
another image.
- Wide
range of FX available in Xsheet,
with customizable presets.
- Fast
previews in full color matching
exactly with the final render,
and in b&w or greytones
for quick animation tests.
- Quick
Time™ movie output available
directly from within the exposure
sheet.
- Access
to the Scan, Inknpaint, Pltedit
and Flip modules from within
Xsheet to follow an xsheet-driven
production work flow.
- Support
for dual screen monitor (windows
only).
- Fast
vectorization tool embedded
in Inknpaint to produce Web-ready
Toonz animated levels.
- Rendered
scene ready for the Web thanks
to the output in the Flash
.swf format.
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