Meet Toon Boom Ember, a suite of AI-powered tools designed to enhance creative workflows in Storyboard Pro and Harmony so artists can work with fewer interruptions, iterate faster, and focus on the creative process. Ember seamlessly integrates six powerful new features into the tools which artists already know and trust, to streamline workflows and automate repetitive tasks. Toon Boom Ember is here to help, enabling artists to focus on what matters most: the crafts of storytelling and animation.
Toon Boom Ember isn’t a separate download. It is an optional add-on built into Storyboard Pro and Harmony. No extra installations. No switching between programs. Just helpful automation where artists need it, without getting in the way of your artistic process. As this is a tool for professional artists, these features only rely on service providers who do not store user data and do not use your projects to train AI models.
Automate time-consuming tasks such as breaking down screenplays into scenes, applying masks to images, and recording scratch audio.
Powerful image manipulation tools for upscaling background bitmap assets when you need to zoom-in on your image.
Our artist-centric approach to AI tools allows humans to remain in control of the production process.
Removing elements from a flat bitmap image is now effortless thanks to Storyboard Pro and Harmony with Ember. Mark the area to be removed and Toon Boom Ember fills in the gap seamlessly by creating a separate layer ready to be used in your scene.
Storyboard Pro and Harmony with Ember’s new Mask Generation feature allows artists to quickly isolate elements in your artwork by accurately creating masks, allowing you to select and edit them in seconds. Used to cut multiple layers from a flat image or remove unwanted elements, this smart tool is designed to integrate with your storyboarding and animation workflows seamlessly.
Storyboard Pro and Harmony with Ember’s Expand Image feature offers helpful ways to extend the borders of your image in a separate new layer, always keeping your original assets intact. Whether you need more space to broaden your canvas or expand your camera framing outside the borders of your artwork, Storyboard Pro and Harmony with Ember help artists explore new possibilities in their scenes.
Efficiently enhance image resolution with this new tool in Storyboard Pro and Harmony with Ember. Whether you are working on a bitmap image or TVG textures, you can upscale the resolution of your original artwork from 2x or 4x up to a resolution of 8192 x 8192. This feature ensures your creation stays crisp no matter what your production requirements dictate.
Storyboard Pro with Ember’s new Rough Track Generation feature is the ultimate way to bring your screenplay to life. Ember analyzes the script, accurately identifying the characters in your story, and lets artist choose temporary voices to use for timing purposes while inserting blank panels and scratch tracks on the timeline! With everything in place, you can direct professional voice actors and edit your animatic with ease.
Integrated seamlessly inside of Storyboard Pro and Harmony, Toon Boom Ember is an optional suite of AI-powered features designed to assist story artists, production designers, animators and studios with repetitive and time consuming tasks. These features have been carefully developed to enhance artistic workflows, focusing on respect for privacy and transparency above all else.
Toon Boom Animation has been developing tools for artists in the animation industry since 1994. We have always been interested in the potential for software to assist professional artists working in the animation industry and believe that we can work with our community to develop responsible and helpful applications for emerging new technologies.
Ember is a suite of tools designed to assist artists, not replace them. Toon Boom Animation develops software for professional artists working in the animation industry. Our AI-powered features can be individually activated or deactivated as required by your studio or user preference, and are designed to fit into an artist’s workflow. Toon Boom Ember is not a replacement for artistic skill or creativity, or a “make the animation for me” button.
Toon Boom Ember's features are currently integrated in Storyboard Pro 25 and Harmony 25. We designed the experience to be seamless while working in Harmony or Storyboard Pro.
Toon Boom Ember introduces intelligent features, such as screenplay analysis, script breakdowns as well as contextual masking and image manipulation tools. These features are meticulously designed to streamline workflows and assist artists.
Yes. Toon Boom Animation will always be transparent about who and how we work with our partners. We are consistently doing exhaustive research to ensure that we adhere to existing ethical and privacy policies, for us and for our service providers. Should you want more information please contact us and we will gladly address any concerns you may have.
Toon Boom Ember is now available as an add-on to users of Storyboard Pro 25 and Harmony 25. Please stay tuned for further updates.
