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today announced the release of Toon Boom Digital Pro, its latest<br />
high-performance animation software. Packaged in an easy-to-use interface,<br />
Toon Boom Digital Pro is the complete animation software for professionals,<br />
offering advanced content creation, animation and compositing capabilities<br />
within a single application. </p>
<p>Productivity tools such as state-of-the-art vector engine, palette<br />
management, lip-sync, true 3D space, morphing and inverse kinematics enable<br />
users to unleash their creativity. Toon Boom Digital Pro comes with<br />
kick-start programs to ensure successful and seamless studio integration,<br />
extensive training material and reliable customer support. Digital Pro is<br />
the tool of choice for animation projects ranging from the simplest to the<br />
most detailed, from digital to complete cut-out styles.</p>
<p>"We are committed to releasing easier-to-use products to meet the demand of<br />
a broader range of users. Toon Boom Digital Pro certainly offers a smooth<br />
creative experience, in addition to significantly reducing operational<br />
costs with its integrated pipeline, leading-edge toolset and paperless<br />
production. Combined with Storyboard Pro, Digital Pro offers all creative<br />
minds the most advanced toolset to create animation digitally," shared Joan<br />
Vogelesang, President and Chief Executive Officer at Toon Boom.</p>
<p>Feature highlights include:</p>
<p>1. Superior Animation Tools with a rigging tool made for robust framework,<br />
morphing for automatic in-betweens, inverse kinematics for natural looking<br />
animation, automated lip-sync, a virtual light table and a rotary animation<br />
disk.</p>
<p>2. Asset Library to store animated cycles, sounds, effects, characters,<br />
backgrounds, props, templates for reuse and to maximize the drawing<br />
substitution tool to easily swap elements and create new poses and<br />
expressions.</p>
<p>3. Advanced Palette Management to create colour models with independent<br />
palettes, easily change colours of any element at any time during<br />
production, all in real-time.</p>
<p>4. True 3D Space to place elements at different depths and automatically<br />
preserve their perspective using the real-time multi-plane camera and<br />
easily add a depth of field effect for an even more realistic render.</p>
<p>5. Sparkling Effects and Compositing to apply any combination of effects on<br />
elements instantly anytime during the production using the effect network,<br />
selecting from over 50 special effects and seeing changes implemented in<br />
real-time with interconnected windows.</p>
<p>6. Unparalleled Image Quality, relying on a state-of-the-art real-time<br />
vector engine and offering full resolution independence for outputs to<br />
every media, from web and handheld devices to film and HD.</p>
<p>7. Artistic Style Unleashed to develop any project from cut-out animation<br />
to frame-by-frame without having to compromise quality or style, and to mix<br />
cut-out characters with traditional vector animation over bitmaps of 3D<br />
rendered objects.</p>
<p>8. Integrated Workflow, covering all the production steps from<br />
storyboarding to final rendering, working freely in a non-linear workflow.</p>
<p>Toon Boom Digital Pro is offered in three versions: commercial, educational<br />
and personal learning edition. Toon Boom Digital Pro sells at $2,999 US and<br />
is now available online at <a href="http://www.toonboom.com/products/digitalpro" title="www.toonboom.com/products/digitalpro">www.toonboom.com/products/digitalpro</a>.</p>
<p>About Toon Boom Animation Inc.</p>
<p>Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in animation software<br />
solutions for film, television, web, games, mobile devices and training<br />
applications. Toon Boom's solutions also include powerful pre-production<br />
tools ideal for all animated or live-action projects. In 2005, Toon Boom<br />
was granted the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award by the Academy of<br />
Television Arts & Sciences for its significant contribution made to the<br />
animation industry targeted for television, in North America and throughout<br />
Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In 2006, the IT Federation of Quebec<br />
(FIQ) awarded an OCTAS 2006 in the Multimedia -- educational and cultural<br />
sector category, for Toon Boom Studio V3. In 2007, FIQ awarded an OCTAS<br />
2007 in the Technological Innovation category, for Toon Boom Storyboard Pro.</p>
<p>Toon Boom's client base ranges from major studios creating Hollywood<br />
blockbuster animated films to individual animators creating their first<br />
masterpieces. Market-leading studios using Toon Boom's products include<br />
Nelvana, Warner Bros., Mercury Filmworks, China Central Television, Toonz<br />
Animation India, Starburst Animation, Answer Studio, Alphanim, Cosgrove<br />
Hall, Cromosoma and Lanterna Magica, to name a few. Some of the prestigious<br />
productions done with Toon Boom's technology include Les Triplettes de<br />
Belleville, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Rugrats, SpongeBob The Movie,<br />
Curious George, Go West: A New Lucky Luke Adventure and The Simpsons Movie.</p>
<p>For additional information, visit Toon Boom at <a href="http://www.toonboom.com" title="www.toonboom.com">www.toonboom.com</a></p>
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