Toon Boom Animate 3 is the ideal software for paperless, frame-by-frame animation. Learn to Animate in no time. Benefit from the robust, Emmy Award-winning code base, and achieve professional quality output. Whether you’re creating animation for the web, commercials, shorts, or games, own your creativity with a solution made just for you.
Toon Boom Animate 3 New and Improved Features:
Tools:
- NEW: Brush lines with texture for doing rough drawings
- NEW: Pencil lines with variable thickness and texture support for nice, clean lines
- NEW: Save presets of tools you reuse often to streamline your workflow
Frame-By-Frame Animation:
- NEW: Shift and Trace allows you to temporarily overlap drawings for easy in-betweening
- IMPROVED: Xsheet with Annotation columns to keep notes and organize animation
- IMPROVED: Live sync of Xsheet and Timeline
Colour Tune:
- IMPROVED: Paint multiple frames quickly and easily using advanced paint options
- NEW: Ink tool for inking coloured pencil lines
New Tools in Toon Boom Animate 3:
True Pencil:
- Draw directly in the software with a pencil line that supports pressure sensitivity.
- Modify the position, length, or thickness information on a line after you draw it.
- Copy and paste the style from one line to another, or apply the style across hundreds of drawings.
- Incorporate texture on your lines for cool effects like charcoal, chalk, and many more.
- Import your own textures from Photoshop and apply them to the line style.
Texture Brushes
- Draw directly in the software with texture brushes.
- Simulate that pencil-on-paper feel for rough drawings.
64-Bit
- Take advantage of the new 64-bit core technology.
- Use as much memory as your machine allows.
- Import images without memory limitations.
- Export hi-res images and movies for professional results.
Tool Presets Toolbar
- Save tool properties that you frequently use.
- Quickly jump to brushes, pencils, paint buckets, and other tools.
- Save the colour along with the properties of the tool.
- Use your own custom icon on the toolbar if desired.
Interface Enhancements
- Autosave, specifying the time interval.
- New user interface for Brush and Pencil tool properties.
- Ability to drag and drop keyframes, drawings, or both on the Timeline.
- Improvements to the Annotation columns in the Xsheet to sketch notes.
- Ability to export different resolutions directly from Export Movie.
- Performance enhancements.
- …and more!