Explore true digital animation

Toon Boom Animate Pro enables you to create tradigital and bitmap animation as well as combining both styles. You can access advanced lip-sync and cell swapping tools to give an extra edge to your content creation process.

Keep traditional art alive

Animate Pro masters traditional art thanks to advanced clean, ink and paint tools as well as an Xsheet with drawing capabilities to simulate a paper exposure sheet. Animate Pro supports Pencil Check Pro to preserve the line test exposure sheet.

Artistic style unleashed

With Toon Boom Animate Pro, you can develop any project without having to compromise quality. Refine your artwork style using multiple brush tools, textures and gradients to get a unique look and feel.

Beyond multi-plane camera

Animate Pro delivers full control on all 3 axes. Move, scale and rotate any of your elements to create amazing 3D scenery with real-time playback. Access a powerful Graph editor and apply subtle acceleration with ease motion control.

Animation’s holy grail

Easily perform frame tweening using the timeline; expose your drawing using the Xsheet; quickly create key poses with inverse kinematics; create in-betweens automatically with morphing tool and even let Animate Pro detects the audio phonemes for you.

Animate faster

Symbols and pegs work in unison. Keyframing in cut-out and tradigital animation is a breeze. Easily fine tune your animation to get the result you have imagined.

Sparkling effects and compositing

Toon Boom Animate Pro compositing takes place at any time during the production cycle. Manipulate the effect network to apply any combination of effects on elements in real-time. Over 50 special effects, ranging from blurs to colour correction and deformation.

Enjoy an adaptable user interface

Whether you want to create artwork, set up your action or add special effects, customize your workspace as you need. Each tool comes with a contextual interface that will let you set your preferences in a click.

Smooth pipeline and workflow integration

Toon Boom Animate Pro can import leading file formats, including MOV, SWF, PSD, AI and PDF, as well as export to video in MOV and FLV. In addition, Animate Pro comes with full scripting capabilities and command line tools. Add Storyboard Pro to integrate the pre-production stages seamlessly into your existing pipeline.

Mac OS X Systems:

• OS: Mac OS X v10.5
• 2 GHz Intel® Core Duo processor
• 1GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 300 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for product activation

Microsoft Windows

• OS: Microsoft Windows XP or Vista (certified for 32 bits)
• 2GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
• 1 GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 300 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for product activation

Pipeline Integration

Storyboard Pro provides an integrated pre-production pipeline to facilitates data exchange and the creation of production libraries for assets re-use. Storyboard Pro supports script from Final Draft with automatic parsing and pre-cut, all major bitmap, vector and audio formats, Storyboard Pro exports still images, layered panels to Photoshop, Movies, Metadata as well as complete storyboard project to Toon Boom Harmony and Animate Family.

Parallel Workflow

Whatever the number of storyboard artists in the studios, Storyboard Pro can handle easily the load balancing of the storyboard creation over several artist at the same time. Split, Extract, Merge, Revise, Storyboard Pro is production proven and can sustain large project from episodic to feature film.

Reduce Pre-production Time

Paperless logistics mean no shipping costs and instant delivery, no printing or photocopying to create, reuse or reduce of artwork ! Save up to 30% compared to traditional paper storyboarding methods.

Built-in animatic tools

It’s more than just a storyboard with independent motion per layer, dynamic camera movement and unlimited soundtracks. Storyboard combines powerful storytelling tools with animation and editing capabilities to create stunning animatics and leica reels. For more advanced editing, Storyboard Pro includes native timeline export to Avid, Premiere and Final Cut Pro.

Ease of use

Storyboard Pro comes with an intuitive interface presenting either an elegant traditional panel window layout or an overview window layout. Storyboard Pro mimics the traditional storyboarding process. Packed with video training material, Storyboard Pro only requires few hours to be up and running.

Rich drawing toolset

Create art directly inside Storyboard with true WYSIWYG vector based drawing tools with pressure sensitivity connected with your tablet. Preserve your own style with ink brush, air brush or crayon texture brush. Use vector text tools with word processing and paragraph options for overlay comments.

real-time storyboard revision

Storyboard Pro intuitive drag and drop interface lets you reorder all your panels on-the-fly. With the overview workspace, you can view the story flow as if you were pinning your drawings on a wall. Storyboard Pro allows you to red line, add reviews fields and record audio comments.

No need to draw

Storyboard Pro allows everyone, from amateur to professional alike to build boards, shot lists, complex shot sequences and any idea imaginable simply by importing digital images into Storyboard or by using the template library.

Mac: System Requirements

• OS: Mac OS X v10.4 and v10.5
• PowerPC (minimum) G5 and Intel (Recommended)
• 512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
• 500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution
• One free USB port required for Dongle
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)

Microsoft Windows
PC: System Requirements

• OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and TabletPC 32bits
• 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (Recommended)
• 512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
• 500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• nVidia video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution
• One free USB port required for Dongle
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Apple Quicktime

Playback Composition Instantly

Preview your line test animation with a real-time playback interface synchronised with sound and camera motion. Define the transparency and colour of each column to identify drawings easily. Resolution independent, Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro can render line test as an image sequence, a QuickTime movie or a SWF vector animation at any resolution. Overlay time code information for easy referencing of later modification.

Professional Line Testing Tools

Developed with professional animators, Pencil Check Pro integrates an extensive feature set including real-time capture preview, vectorization presets, paper feeder support for batch capture, alignment and registration for acquisition of large backgrounds and automatic matte creation for instant overlay preview. You can also import images and capture or draw directly within Pencil Check Pro to quickly create a line test. Complete your line test by easily adding camera motion.

Acclaimed Exposure Sheet

With more than ten years of legacy in animation, Toon Boom’s exposure sheet includes everything an animator could dream of. Fill the xsheet manually, randomly or sequentially, adjust the duration on-the-fly or simply let the capture module fill it for you. Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro xsheet can display the sound waveform for accurate timing. You can also draw or import annotations as if you had a paper margin and mark key and breakdown drawings.

Draw, Ink and Paint Digitally

Line testing can also be done paperlessly with Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro, thanks to its unique vector and pressure-sensitive drawing tools . Sketch, clean and paint in colour to produce a high quality line test. Pencil Check Pro comes with all the tools required for animation such as Onion Skin, Light Table, Backlight and Toon Boom’s legendary rotary animation table to fully mimic a traditional animation workspace.

Extensive Capture Devices Supported

Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro comes with an impressive list of built-in capture technology such as Microsoft DirectShow and WIA as well as Apple QuickTime and Image Capture. Combine this with TWAIN interface and proprietary drivers for high speed production scanners, Pencil Check Pro supports the widest variety of devices available for a line test application and fits into your pipeline and your budget.

Toon Boom Harmony significantly reduces the operational costs with its integrated pipeline, leading-edge toolset and paperless production. These savings can be realized whether the production is a low-budget one or a feature length film project.

The leading studios worldwide have made Harmony the industry standard to produce and create animation.

Toon Boom Harmony covers all production steps from design to final rendering in a non-linear workflow. Configure workspaces to match specific tasks and focus on required execution processes. Optimize the production pipeline with the built-in scripting capabilities to save time. Manage assets efficiently with the centralized library and let animators populate it during the production for reuse purposes. Harmony is the most fl exible solution for animation studios looking for a seamless integration in their current set-up.

With its impressive track record, Toon Boom Harmony is the solution of choice to manage all production stages and assets within a common central repository. Harmony’s control continually updates production information, enabling users to quickly locate assets and monitor the status of any production on site or remotely. Break down complex tasks to enable animators to easily work together on the same scene at the same time. Render scenes on an unlimited number of render nodes and change the priority depending on the deadlines.

Based on a state-of-the-art real-time vector engine, Toon Boom Harmony is resolution independent and outputs to all media from web to handheld devices, film and HD. Thanks to its smart ID-based palette manager, designers can create colour models with independent palettes and easily change colours of any element during production, all in real-time. In Harmony, animators can draw using line textures for a natural media look and feel. They can also set the action in a true 3D space, creating stunning camera moves in real-time and let Harmony take care of preserving the elements perspective with depth of field effect for an even more realistic render. If seeing is believing, Harmony will make you a true believer and a devoted practitioner.

Toon Boom Harmony supports any kind of 2D animation project without compromising quality or style. Freely mix cut-out characters with traditional vector animation over 3D rendered props with high resolution bitmap backgrounds and maintain the production’s creative look throughout the project. Harmony includes the most advanced toolset with its acclaimed node–based compositing which is available at any time during production. From timeline to exposure sheet, everything is available to create all styles of animation.