Description
  

"Create Your Own Cartoons and Animations for professionals and digital artists!"
By SoftCns Editor:
Bring your imagination to life! Anime Studio Debut is your complete animation program for creating 2D movies, cartoons, anime and cut-out animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of SouthParkStudios.com and JibJab.com or use it to produce animations for film, video or streaming over the web.

New Features:

• Character Wizard
Creating your own characters has never been easier. Quickly design ready-to-animate characters using the built-in Character Wizard. Select a preset, dial in the body proportions and choose from dozens of predesigned 2D components such as hands, feet, mouths, eyes, noses and heads. The look and feel of each character is fully customizable with the help of easy-to-use sliders. Choose from various clothing choices and custom color combinations, or create a virtually endless amount of fun and different characters using the Randomize feature. Each character comes with multiples views and can be imported with a complete walk cycle, allowing you to have your characters walk in your scene with the click of a button. Even attach head shots of you and your friends for fast and easy jib-jab style animation.

• Automatic Image Tracing
Automatic Image Tracing uickly brings your scanned drawings and photos to life by converting them to ready-to-animate vector art with the click of a button. Color your vector art, resize without loss in image quality and animate using bones. Existing drawings, such as heads, can quickly attach to a pre-animated character that you created with the Character Wizard, providing versatility and speed when creating your own characters.

• Enhanced Drawing Tools
Combine the freehand tool’s smart welding feature with the Delete Edge tool to create complex shapes quickly. This eliminates the need for precise drawing, giving you the freedom to sketch as you desire. Additional brush styles have been included and optional rounded end caps have been added to the drawing tools.

• Vector Shape Selector
Quickly find and edit vector layers using the Vector Shape Selector. You no longer have to worry about naming each layer to find the one you’re looking for. Just click on a shape in your project and the corresponding layer automatically gets selected for editing.

• Layer Outline Effects Layer Outline Effects
Layer Outline Effects lets you quickly apply a cut-out style effect to any character or object. Set the width and color for each outline and customize the look and feel of your animation.

• Enhanced User Interface
Anime Studio 8 introduces new User Interface colors, allowing you to choose from various preset color schemes or create your own. The new Smart Tool Palette provides a less cluttered interface and a better user experience by hiding irrelevant tools.

• More Ready-To-Use Content
Anime Studio Debut provides an extensive content library with hundreds of pieces of ready-to-use content that includes fully rigged, vector-based characters like Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Liz, as well as props, scenes, action words, stock video and images, sound effects and more so you can start creating your own animations right away.

Design & Layout

• Easily Create Objects
Draw directly in Anime Studio with a suite of powerful drawing tools or import your favorite digital images or artwork to get started.

• Organize Your Project with Complete Control
Anime Studio's sequencer gives you total control over the creative process making it easy for you to organize and complete your project using multiple layers of audio, video, imagery, and animation.

• Finish for Web, TV, Film and Still Formats
With Anime Studio 8, you can output your finished work to a variety of standard formats.

Animation

• Techniques
Traditional animation was created by drawing frames one after another, each frame drawn slightly different from the last. Anime Studio will help you simulate frame-by-frame animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for frame-by-frame animation. Anime Studio offers you the flexibility to create animations using several techniques that can be combined to deliver the effects you need in your project.

• Rigging Your Characters Using Bones
Anime Studio's unique bone rigging allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be part of your animation, making animation easier than ever before. Even beginners new to animation will find this powerful feature to be a breakthrough.

• Animating in Layers
Anime Studio takes advantage of graphical layers called Switch Layers, which makes it easier to work with a combination of connected movements that occur along a timeline. This is especially valuable for animating body movements or facial expressions, such as creating lip-synch animations, when each graphical layer can be a mouth shape for a different sound.

• Animate the Individual Points on an Object
Using Anime Studio's vector-based graphics, you can add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.

• Animate Using Physics
Anime Studio Pro 8 features a powerful rigid body physics engine that allows objects to collide with and bounce off of each other. Set the density, springiness and gravity of objects and create stunning animations. Easily integrate physics animation into your existing animation projects. Set up motors to move shapes, force fields to control the direction of objects, or automatically convert characters with rigged bone systems to ragdoll physics objects. The Physics engine is a big timesaver, allowing you to automate parts of your animation.