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Linker Animation Stand Professional Edition
Animation Stand is the leader in cross-platform tools for
professional, cost effective, easy to use computer-assisted
2 1/2D character animation, compositing and film quality special
effects. Other key features of Animation Stand include, multiplane
camera control, automatic cel painting, 3-D shading, audio
editing, production cost reporting, and easy output to film,
HDTV, video, QuickTime, and files. It's the only animation
system with versions for all major platforms: Mac, SGI, and
Windows (95, 98, NT, and 2000). Versions of Animation Stand
can be intermixed, and all hot-link together to provide a
seamless workgroup environment. Since 1989, professional and
industrial animation studios, postproduction, and video facilities
have used Animation Stand, worldwide. The Professional Edition
handles resolutions up to and including HDTV. This version
is prefect for all uses except final rendering for theatrical
film release.
Toon
Boom Animation Inc Concerto
Digital Animation Made Easy and Efficient Ideal for paperless,
digital, re-use or cut-out animation, Concerto offers increased
productivity, raises the animation quality and eliminates
file management issues so common to the normal flash pipeline.
Concerto adds the following key features to the OPUS feature
set: advanced keyframing, sound scrubbing and the ability
to draw directly in 3D sceneplanning.
Androme
N.V., Belgium CreaToon
CreaToon is a powerful software solution for the PC to create
2D animation in the cut-out style.
Digital
Video The TAB
The TAB is not made just for drawing, but for ANIMATING. You
can start from a single drawing, and bring it to life by making
subsequent modifications, or you can interpolate two drawings
using the inbetweener...
MEDIAPEGS
PEGS
PEGS is the ground-breaking 2D animation production
software which digitizes the entire post-paper animation
production process from scanning to delivery . Running
on NT platforms, and SGI stations, PEGS has revolutionized
the world of animation production.
CAMBRIDGE
Animo
Animo is the World's foremost
2D cartoon software package. Warner Bros, Production
IG, Nelvana, Shine Digital and Tape House-its aficionados
span the complete animation spectrum. Once they've tried
them, animators soon become hooked on the flexible tools
that help creat animated productions in digital format.
Creature
House LivingCels
LivingCels is a unique
and very powerful 2D cel-animation system. It allows
stylish animation to be created entirely within the
system by creating vector keyframes. The system then
automatically creates the inbetweens. The correspondence
between objects in adjacent keyframes is also processed
automatically and flexibly. Adjacent keyframes do not
have to have exactly the same number of objects, and
corresponding objects can have different number of control
points or vertices. Almost all attributes can be key-ed.
The animation is frame rate and resolution independent.
Animators can render from the same animation project
a low resolution version with lower frame rate for web/multimedia
uses, and a high resolution version in full frame rate
(even with fields and motion blurring) for broadcasting
or for recording onto films.
Digital
Video Toonz
Toonz is a complete 2D Cel Animation
software for feature films, video, commercials, multimedia
and web animations. Designed by traditional cel animation
artists and producers Toonz 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.
Toonz includes tools for: input, ink and paint original pencil
drawings; compose, move and animate the inked cels over backgrounds,
according to the exposure sheet; move the camera and table;
add special effects and record composed sequences.
CRATER
SOFTWARE CTP
CTP is a PC compatible
computer program specifically designed for broadcast
quality animated series production. To run the CTP you
only need a standard PC, a simple scanner and any video
input/output board. This program is of special interest
to all cartoon freelancers and producers, because it
simplifies enormously their work flow: with a simple
click on their mouse, cartoonists will achieve what
previously took several hours. With the CTP, they can
accomplish the entire production process from start
to end, and become in this way full sequence producers.
In the same way, production houses will be able to work
with many more external systems at the same time, but
with unified criteria, increasing their productivity
which will result in more income. Its price is so affordable
that cartoonists will be able to have it at their house
or studio, and production houses will have more control
over job planning.
TRIMEDIA
RETAS! Pro
RETAS! Pro is the Award-Winning
2.5D digital animation production system which puts
all the power and flexibility of professional creativity
at your fingertips: digital drawing, pencil test, line
trace, ink & paint, compositing & special effects. Its
combination of an intuitive user interface and the most
powerful features makes it the most convenient and the
most cost-effective system of choice for all professional
animation creators who want to make their works really
fly.
AXA
Team 2D 2001 Pro
AXA Team 2D 2001 is designed
to follow the traditional process of cel animation as
closely as possible. We just convert the traditional
steps to "digital" steps but otherwise remain the same.
Shooting your drawings under a camera for pencil test
is done by our Capture module. ScanIt takes the place
of xeroxing drawings onto cels. Either way you choose
to get your drawings into the computer, AXA Team 2D
automatically cleans-up and positions the drawings in
the exposure sheet during the capture process.
AXAweb
AXAweb automatically converts
scanned images into vector images. Reading standard
faster formats and output from scanners, automatic tracing
is controlled by a set of easy-to-use parameters. Contours
can then be edited using dynamic editing features. All
you have to do is import your image! The TraceArt is
aimed at providing smooth and clean vectors, which are
most suitable for Animators.
AXA
Pencil Test
AXA Pencil Test is a complete
program all by itself. It includes both Capture and
ScanIt to help you to capture your pencil drawings into
the traditional exposure sheet where you can edit the
timing and play them back at any frame rate with synchronized
audio.
TRIMEDIA
PencilMan
PencilMan is an application
that allows the creation of layouts, key animation,
and inbetweens on the computer. When all the animation
drawings are done on a tablet the entire production
process becomes digital making animation paper unnecessary
and creating a completely paperless environment, as
well as making creative exchange over a network possible.
TRIMEDIA
QuickChecker
QuickChecker is a multi-layer
line testing tool for hand-drawn animation. Our newly
developed technology provides a much lower cost and
higher performance tool than legacy expensive multi-layer
line test machines which cost anywhere from $25,000
to $30,000 dollars. It simply captures cels with a home
video or DV camera and has the capability to play uncompressed
full screen and with full motion up to 60 frames per
second without special hardware. This indispensable
tool for increasing animation quality is now available
for the Macintosh.
TRIMEDIA
TraceMan
TraceMan brings sequences
of animated pencil drawings and live video backgrounds
into the computer through scanners or a digital camera.
and clean up the outlines for best suitable for subsequence
painting. It can distinguish unlimited colors of lines
(up to 7 at a time) in 256 grades of scale and save
them on different planes for outline protections in
the subsequent painting process. It can features real
time playback of sequence of scanned drawings for quick
pencil test and output to video recorders.
TRIMEDIA
PaintMan
PaintMan is a powerful
paint tool for efficiently painting large numbers of
drawings PaintMan colors traced pencil drawings and
also allows direct drawing through a digital tablet
eliminating the hassles of pencil drawing and scanning.
Lines and colors are stored in separate layers for protection
during painting. Users can create their own color charts
from more than 16 million colors, or use predefined
color models for high speed sequence painting, gap auto-closure,
sequence color replacement and outline color changes.
PaintMan also has the world's first auto-airbrush effects
feature.
TRIMEDIA
CoreRETAS
This is the core of RETAS!
Pro. You can compose a traditional exposure-sheet with
up to 100 layers of 2D "cels", 3D graphics and video
frames. CoreRETAS allows true freedom of camera work,
various compositing modes and unlimited special effects
through plug-ins. Your animation can be previewed and
exported to multiplatform formats or recorded directly
onto professional disk or film recorders.
TRIMEDIA
RenderDog
RenderDog is the most
economic and efficient way to batch render animated
sequences composited in CoreRETAS You can use one or
more machines to do batch rendering which frees your
CoreRETAS systems to do more work. The price is very
inexpensive and greatly reduces your overall software
investment.
DIGI
Cel FlipBook PT (Pencil Test)
The PT in FlipBook PT
stands for Pencil Test and nobody does pencil test like
FlipBook. You can draw on paper and then scan or shoot
your drawings or draw right into the computer with your
mouse or tablet. Either way FlipBook automatically builds
your exposure sheet for you and will play your scene
back INSTANTLY!
DIGI
Cel FlipBook SE (Standard Edition)
In addition to everything
that FlipBook PT offers, FlipBook SE adds Painting and
more Publishing options. So when you've completed your
testing you can paint your film and then Publish it
in AVI, FLASH or QuickTime formats.
DIGI
Cel FlipBook Lite
FlipBook Lite is an entry
level program for people who want to try their hand
at traditional style animation. It has all the main
features of FlipBook but it only has 2 levels in the
xsheet (a foreground and a background) and it won't
output Flash. It also doesn't support scanning or shooting
(camera capture). But it does let you draw your animation
right on the computer using the light table (onion skin)
to see multiple drawings at a time, paint them, play
them and publish them in the Windows standard AVI format.
Other than that you get everything else. And you can
upgrade whenever you want for the price difference.
DIGI
Cel FlipBook Pro
In addition to everything
that FlipBook PT offers, FlipBook Pro adds Painting,
Publishing options, soft-edged shadows and multi-plane
camera moves with overlays. . So when you've completed
your testing you can paint your film and then Publish
it in AVI, FLASH or QuickTime formats.
Toon
Boom STUDIO
Toon Boom Studio is based
on the logic of the traditional animation production
process. You can use Toon Boom Studio to develop all
aspects of your Web animations - from drawing, lip syncing,
inking and painting your drawings, to laying out entire
element layers in a 3D space and animating changes over
time.
Toon
Boom USAnimation
USAnimation V5 is the
most advanced 2D animation system for handling projects
of any scale and volume, while preserving superior image
quality. The system was conceived as a complete production
solution with tools for project management based on
a traditional work style. All tasks are covered: drawing
directly into the system or scanning your drawings,
laying out your scene using the interactive, real-time
3D sceneplanning, and producing the final output. USAnimation
provides maximum speed and throughput at all production
stages, with features including the fastest available
scanning and Ink & Paint, highly flexible compositing,
and unlimited visual and lighting effect capabilities.
Toon
Boom USAnimation. Web Edition
Toon Boom USAnimation
Web Edition is teh 2D Cartoon Animation Tool to create
spectacular and compeling animation for the Web, spend
more time on creative tasks, and focus on higher-quality
content.
MorphInk
Corporation Morphink animation tool
MorphInk 2.0 is a free
style animation tool based on truly automatic morphing.
It is designed to let everyone discover the joy of creating
animation. Use MorphInk animations for fun, for decorating
web sites, for presentations, and to e-mail animated
greetings to friends. Whether you are an inexperienced
user or a design professional, MorphInk will instantly
convert your sketches into charming movies. MorphInk
line of products incorporates technological innovations
reflecting the company's R&D in Automated Morphing,
Shape Editing and Shape Modeling.
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is the
key to designing and delivering low-bandwidth animations, presentations,
and Web sites. It offers scripting capabilities and server-side
connectivity for creating engaging applications, Web interfaces,
and training courses. Once you've created your content, 96% of the
online audience will be able to view it with the Adobe Flash
Player.
Smith Micro Anime Studio Pro
The Professional Solution for Creating Animations! Anime Studio Pro is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface and loaded with pre-rigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow.
Stop
Motion Pro
Stop Motion Pro is computer software designed
for stop motion animation - traditional cel, claymation, cutout
or experimental techniques. All you need is a video camera, computer,
a video capture device.
Tapptoons
Linetester
Tapptoon linetester is a 2D animation
linetester for animators to input images from a scanner or video
camera, view and edit the animated sequences.
Smith Micro Anime Studio
The Fun, Quick and Affordable Way to Create Animations! Anime Studio is the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts. Draw original art, import your digital pictures, dub and add subtitles to your existing videos or choose from many built-in characters to get started! Use Anime Studio’s intuitive tools to create and share your own original animations.
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