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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.
Create professional animations. Anime Studio combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology to deliver the most unique animation program for digital artists.
* Bone-Based Animation Technology - Using Anime Studio’s bone rigging system, you can add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life!
* Ready to Use Content - Choose from pre-made Anime style characters or create your own using Anime Studio’s drawing and coloring tools.
* Import Your Own Artwork - Draw your own or import 2D imagery, 3D imagery or video files.
* Vector Graphics - Resize your images with no loss in quality using Anime Studio’s vector-based layer system.
* Intuitive Timeline - Anime Studio interpolates through your Timeline so you avoid the tedium of frame-by-frame drawing and save time.
* Audio Support - Add audio soundtracks to your animations. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.
* Adobe Photoshop Integration - Import layered PSD files using a Photoshop plug-in that converts files to Anime Studio format, included free with Anime Studio Pro.
* Pen Tablet Support - Draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.
* Publish for Multiple Media - Output your animations to video, TV, and web formats.
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* Additional Professionally-Designed Content - Anime Studio Pro includes 22 3D objects, 24 2D c...
If you're not a professional artist, take advantage of pre-built 2D characters to get a jump start on creating your own animations. The Character Collection comes complete with 15 pre-rigged characters, including: Cute Girl, Smiling Girl, Pig, Zoon, Xiao, Qiqi, Lei, Qib, Qim, Baicoapo, Kenami, Liji, Kexi, WanLu and YaLiShi. All 2D characters come pre-rigged, so you can start animating right away in both versions of Anime Studio. Simply add the character to your scene and you are ready to go!
Discover all of the unique capabilities of Anime Studio with this official guide book from Course Technology. Anime Studio: The Official Guide, by Kelly Murdock, shows first-time animators, hobbyists, and digital enthusiasts how to create, render, and animate characters and even entire scenes that can be exported to various video, TV, and web formats for viewing and sharing.
Using clear examples and step-by-step tutorials to help you conquer each feature and new skill, the book includes instruction on:
* Managing and configuring the workspace
* Working with layers
* Using drawing tools
* Editing curves
* Working with bones
* Adding sound
* Rendering and exporting a final scene
* Importing and integrating 3D models and textures, video, and Photoshop files
* Adding special effects
About the Author
Kelly Murdock: Kelly has over 15 years experience in the computer graphics arena, especially in the area of 3D graphics. Included in the experience is a variety of tasks from high-end CAD product design and architectural pre-visualization to virtual reality and games. Kelly is best known for his international best-selling books on graphics including the 3ds max Bible, Illustrator Bible and Naked Maya. He also is the author to Poser 6 and 7 as well as Edgeloop Character Modeling for 3D Professionals. Kelly currently works as a freelance designer for Logical Paradox Design, a company that he founded with his brother.
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* Vector graphics provide power and flexibility - Use multiple layering and resize your images with no loss in quality.
* Animate your characters using bones - Using Anime Studio’s bone rigging system, you can add a skeleton to any image by point-and-click to bring it to life. With Anime Studio, there’s no need to create new art for each individual frame as you animate. Just adjust the bones to your desired position and the program will generate the movement for you. It’s that easy!
* Direct your action with an intuitive timeline - Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.
* Add audio soundtracks to your animations - Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.
* Integrate with Adobe Photoshop - Import layered PSD files using a Photoshop plug-in that converts files to Anime Studio format, included free with Anime Studio.
* Publish for multiple media - Output your animations to video, TV, and web formats.
Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides what you need to create your own animations faster than ...
