Toon Boom Studio

Toon Boom Studio is ideal for individuals looking for an all-in-one animation software. From drawing digitally, scanning hand-drawn animations or seamlessly importing existing artwork, Toon Boom Studio enables you to lip-sync your animation, setup the action in a 3D space, and publish your animation projects for TV, HDTV, the Web, and iPod!

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Covering the entire animation workflow from sketching to final publishing, you will find Toon Boom Studio to be a great tool to create or learn animation. Toon Boom Studio offers true animation features designed to facilitate the creation of any styles of animation, including traditional frame-by-frame animation, key-frame animation, cut-out, and photo animation.

Toon Boom Studio offers intuitive and easy to use drawing tools. Take advantage of customizable grid, auto gap closing and a unique powerful Color Palette system. Use advanced features such as feathered edges or line styles to create a personalized look.

With Toon Boom Studio, you can import and manage all kinds of assets, including digital pictures, SWF movies or sound files. In addition to supporting all well-known standard formats, Toon Boom Studio includes advanced import and vectorizing capabilities to import and animate paper drawings or digital pictures.

Toon Boom Studio is the only software for creative minds that offers fully automated lip-syncing capabilities. Unlike other tools, Toon Boom Studio analyzes sound files and is completely language independent. Just import your sound file and click the lip-sync button to get the job done.

Traditional Animation

Developed by animators for animators, Toon Boom Studio offers all the traditional animation features such as a full screen rotary drawing table with onion skinning, a virtual light table, exposure sheet, and much more.

Keyframe Animation

Easily click and drag to animate your assets with the Transform tool. Use the powerful peg system to create more advanced movement to animate using a motion path. Access advanced features or fine tune your animation with the function editor to set the perfect timing.

Cut-Out Animation

Create a character structure to animate your cut out characters using forward kinetics. Use the Transform tool to easily add animation to your characters and props. No need to add keyframes, focus on the movement and let Toon Boom Studio do the rest.

Add Special Effects

Adding special effects in your project is a great way to raise the quality of your animation. Use adapted tools to add tones and highlight effects. Use special effects including the dynamic drop shadow, masking layers, and color transform.

3D Scene Planning

It’s simple to set up a scene in Toon Boom Studio. It takes only seconds to populate a scene with templates, using drag-and-drop, and scene-planning tools. Take advantage of a virtual 3D environment to layout your assets in your projects and create realistic depth.

Camera Effects

Toon Boom Studio uses a camera in a virtual 3D environment to set the action. Be the director of your own masterpiece. Create stunning visual effects in seconds setting up multiple cameras and using the camera, side and top views to plan your scene.

Toon Boom Studio creates high quality animation for the Web, iPods, PDAs, cell phones, TV, HDTV, and more. Whether you use Toon Boom Studio to share your animations with your friends and family members by email or to produce high quality video for broadcast, Toon Boom Studio supports the right format you need, including SWF, QuickTime, AVI, DV Streams, image sequences, and more.