Digital Drawing
- Create resolution-independent animation
- Use the virtual animation disk and digital exposure sheet with full control of timing and order
- Hand-draw with pressure-sensitive pen and graphic tablet
- Create your in-betweening using the morphing tools
- Speed up the process of animating joints in a framework using inverse kinematic and glue tools
- Duplicate and manipulate vector-based drawings
- Access a full range of digital tools: cut, copy, paste, scale, rotate, squash, stretch, etc.
- Access a full set of tools to edit contours
- Use the light table and multi-level onion skinning features
- Automatically generate lip charts and save time lip syncing characters to voice tracks
- Display bitmap images and/or live-action for rotoscoping
- Deform line art to change its shape
- Use different texture brushes to create other line styles like pencil on paper, watercolor, etc.
Scan
- Twain support
- Auto-feed or manually scan drawings
- Register peg holes automatically
- Clean scanned lines automatically
- Scan your drawings in black and white or grayscale
- Auto-assemble your drawings for paint
- Color scan pre-colored 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
- Maintain scanning resolution based on fielding or output resolution
Libraries
- 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
Paint
- Paint a single drawing, several sequences, or all drawings in a level simultaneously
- Paint color art, re-color line art, check for paint errors
- Access 16 million colors; unlimited fill colors, line colors, transparencies per layer
- Visualize line texture while you paint
- Instantly update all View windows when changes are made to drawings
- Re-touch vector drawings
- Paint with pixmap textures and gradients
- Close gaps automatically
- Auto-paint all effect levels
- Manage color models
- Paint quickly at all output resolutions
- Create an unlimited number of palettes per character
- Create unlimited number of colors per palette
Timeline
- Display pegs and elements by hierarchy
- Use sound scrubbing on a frame-by-frame basis
- Set up groups of drawings 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
Xsheet
- Emulates a traditional exposure sheet
- Create, edit and save 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
Sceneplanning
- Position elements interactively
- Create new 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
- Draw directly in the Frame View
- 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
Render
- Render to any resolution and aspect ratio such as TV, NTSC, PAL, HDTV, film (1K, 2K, 4K) and more
- Optionally disable field rendering for pegs
- Command line render
- Output to QuickTime; import and export Flash renderings
Effects & Compositing
- Change output resolution without rescanning or repainting
- Employ complete effects module including directional blurs, film grain, gradients, textures, glows, radial blurs, shadows and fades
- 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 new 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
- Intuitively drag and drop network modules
- Drag and drop to create Group modules
- Visualize data in tree views for groups, moves and effects
Playback
- Play back animation with sound
- Use integrated playback to preview special effects
- Play back as a floating window or a stand-alone application
- View frame sequences at full D1 resolution
- Play back up to 60 fps
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