Toon Boom Digital Pro: Detailed Features
- Create resolution-independent scene with vector and bitmap animation
- True 3D Space environment for accurate camera setup and easy depth positioning
- Flexible User Interface with predefined Workspace supporting docked or floating View windows
- Automatic updates all View windows when changes are made to drawings
- Pencil tool to draw center line stroke
- Brush tool to draw pressure sensitive contour line stroke with tablet
- Pressure sensitive Eraser tool available on all vector drawing
- Convert Center line to Contour and the opposite
- Use different texture brushes to create other line styles like pencil on paper, watercolour, etc
- Line Art and Colour Art layer available to keep line and painted color independent
- User friendly navigation in your drawing with virtual animation disk to simulate panning, zooming and rotation
- Duplicate and manipulate vector-based drawings such as position, scale, rotate, skew, flip or perspective
- Access a full range of digital tools such as cut, copy, paste, scale, rotate, squash, stretch, etc.
- Access a full set of tools to edit contours (contour editor, smooth)
- Use the light table and multi-level onion skinning features with flexible display available such as outline or fade
- Display bitmap images and/or live-action for rotoscoping
- Deform vector line to change its shape
- Adjust line texture opacity to balance opacity and contrast of vector texture based drawings
- Slice drawings with Freehand or rectangle Cutter tool
- Find quickly a color in a palette with the Dropper tool
- Use shape Ellipse, Line, Polyline or Rectangle shape for fast construction of geometric elements
- Flatten vector strokes to merge and remove overlapped lines
- Use Optimize to flatten vector strokes while preserving the visual aspect
- Display square, 12 field or 16 field Grid to register elements
- Mark In-Between, Breakdown, Keyframe drawings for precise frame by frame animation
- Reposition drawings from all cels instantly for immediate image manipulation
- Access 16 million colours; unlimited fill colours, line colours, transparencies per layer
- Create an unlimited number of palettes
- Create unlimited number of colour pots per palette
- Edit Gradient / Texture tool
- Fill palette colour pots with flat colours, gradients or bitmap textures depending on your animation look.
- Clone palettes to preserve dependencies
- Duplicate palettes to copy all the colours and have them independent
- Paint a single drawing, several sequences, or all drawings in a level simultaneously
- Paint colour art, re-colour line art, and check for paint errors
- Visualize line texture while you paint
- Paint with bitmap textures and gradients
- Close gap tools to manually close gaps
- Close gaps automatically on all your drawings
- Auto-paint all art levels simultaneously
- Manage colour models in independent views
- Paint quickly at all output resolutions
- Use Backlight for instant verification of the completeness of the paint process
- Highlight selected colour to select specific colour instantly
- Create a library of animated elements and animated sequences
- Store multiple elements with their own drawings
- Create a library of effects
- Store movements with their own functions and transformations
- Preview drawings in real-time
- Swap drawings easily to manage media assets
- Create your in-betweening using the morphing tools
- Create natural-looking animation with IK tools
- Automatically generate lip charts and save time lip-syncing characters to voice tracks
- Position all elements interactively
- Create 3D trajectories for elements and camera
- Auto-calculate elements perspective in relation to camera position
- Auto-calculate different focuses on various elements
- Create complex movements with a hierarchy of elements and cameras
- Preview elements and camera moves in real-time
- View multi-plane perspective in real-time
- Preview line texture, gradients, textures, tones, highlights and cutters
- Create a peg or function automatically
- Click and drag positioning of elements and cameras
- Work simultaneously with multiple aspect ratios
- Increase bitmap preview resolution
- Pan and Scan in real-time using multiple aspect ratios
- Rotate, scale, translate and skew multiple elements at the same time
- Use Drawing substitution to swap elements easily on-the-fly
- Display pegs and elements by hierarchy
- Use sound scrubbing on a frame-by-frame basis
- Set up groups of drawings, pegs and motion paths
- Easily create new elements and drawings
- Effortlessly create new motion paths and animated drawings
- Drag and drop keyframes, elements, motion paths and element transformations
- Display effects and their keyframes
- Display Audio waveform
- Emulates a traditional exposure sheet
- Create, edit and save exposure sheets
- Print exposure sheets
- Automatically build the timing in your exposure sheet with simple click and drag
- Use expression columns to create values for an effect based on mathematical operations
- Control the velocity values with Bezier or ease function curves; control the values in other columns with these functions
- Copy and paste cells with drag and drop
- Automatically visualize and update groups and hierarchies
- Change output resolution without rescanning or repainting
- Blur Effects: Directional Blur, Radial Blur, Variable Blur, Focus, Matte blur and Motion Blur
- Colour Effects: Colour Card, Colour Scale, Colour Override, Colour Screen, Contrast, Greyscale, Remove Transparency, Transparency, Negate
- Image Effects: Anti Flicker, Dither, Crop, Cutter, External, Highlight, Tone, and Gradient
- Deformation Effects: Glue, Refract, Glow, Shadow, Pixelate, Grain, Scale, Line Art, Colour Art, Matte Resize, Quadmap
- Use the external node to perform additional effects with external programs
- Control line thickness when zooming-in
- Create mattes directly in the Frame View
- Use the network navigator that helps to manage large networks
- Scale vector artwork infinitely without pixilation
- Use any output resolution and aspect ratio
- Easily pan and zoom in the Network Effects View window
- Automatically connect Network modules, as well as reorder network cables
- Insert Network modules seamlessly between existing modules
- Intuitively drag and drop network modules
- Drag and drop to create Group modules
- Visualize data in tree views for groups, moves and effects
- Develop your own special effects plug-in using Digital Pro SDK
- Add notes to your network for reminder and collaborative work
- Play back current scene or external media inside Digital Pro
- Use integrated playback view to preview special effects
- Play back animation with sound in-sync
- Play back as a floating window or a stand-alone application
- View frame sequences at full D1 resolution
- Play back up to 60 fps
- Bitmap TGA, PSD, PNG, JPEG, BMP, YUV, PAL, SGI, SCAN
- Import QuickTime video as sequence of images
- Vector TVG, SWF, PDF, AI
- Audio MP3, WAV, AIFF
- TWAIN support
- Automatic Feeder support (ADF)
- Register peg holes automatically
- Scan your drawings in black and white or greyscale
- Auto-assemble your drawings for paint
- Colour scan pre-coloured drawings and backgrounds
- Auto-splice pan cels (characters and backgrounds)
- Capture nuances of hand-drawn lines (using true-line vectorization and line texture)
- Preserve original line textures such as pencil, crayon or chalk
- Use advanced cleaning tools to remove dirt and hair easily
- Render to any resolution and aspect ratio such as NTSC, PAL, HDTV, film (1K, 2K, 4K) and beyond
- Support Field rendering for interlaced format
- Optionally disable field rendering per pegs
- Command line render application
- Output to QuickTime Movie, Flash SWF and image sequence TGA, PSD, YUV, PNG, SGI, etc…
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