From the Manufacturer
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Everything you need to get started with 2-D animation
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Anime Studio Debut is fun, easy, and exciting. It's a great tool
for artistic expression and ideal for any age group. This
entry-level animation software program is powerful yet
affordable. You won't find your ideas or projects limited by the
features of the software. Detailed video tutorials make learning
the tools a snap, and pre-made content and characters help you
get started right away.
Character Wizard Brand New Content
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Hundreds of new characters. Quickly design ready-to-animate
characters using the built-in Character Wizard. Select preset,
dial-in body proportions, and choose from dozens of predesigned
2-D components such as hands, feet, mouths, eyes, noses, and
heads.
Beginner's Mode
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Start animating right away by choosing Beginner's Mode. Get
exactly the help you need for each tool or feature with automatic
roll over tips and built-in tutorials and sample files. You don't
even have to leave the application to watch a video tutorial.
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Rigging Your Characters Using s Makes Animating Easy
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-rigging is a fast and efficient alternative to tedious
frame-by-frame animation. Add a skeleton to any image by pointing
and clicking to create s that overlay the parts of your
image, to control arms or legs for example. Then bring your image
to life by moving any individual point to create the pose or
motion you want, while keeping your project organized with the
sequencer and timeline.
Video/Motion Tracking
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Add an object to an imported video that will follow the position
and rotation of something, like a person's thumb. Just add
tracking points that identify the item on the screen you want to
follow.
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Automatic Image Tracing Use Your Own Artwork
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Import your scanned drawings or existing images and photos then
convert them to vector drawings with the click of a button. Trace
as black and white or edges only and adjust a number of settings
to style your vector image. Color your vector art, resize without
loss in image quality and animate it using s.
Audio , Sound Effects, and Automatic Lip Syncing
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Add a soundtrack and lip-syncing to your animations. Record your
own sound clips inside Anime Studio and adjust the pitch from
high to low to fit your animated characters or import existing
audio files into your project. Anime Studio will automatically
insert them into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing
and length to fit your scene. Using the Sequencer, freely move
multiple sounds along the timeline to adjust syncing. Anime
Studio supports WAV, AIFF, MP3 and M4A formats.
Huge Content Library Free Characters, Props, and Scenes Included
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There is a huge variety of content included with Anime Studio,
and the Pro version utilizes a powerful, flex-based Content
Library, a great timesaver that allows you to organize content
across Anime Studio projects. Browse through existing content,
save your own creations to the library, and easily categorize
content and search for items by keyword. Add selected content to
your scenes through a simple drag and drop.
Lip-Syncing
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Built-in lip-syncing in Anime Studio can help you save time.
Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer
you wish to sync, select the sound file from a pull-down menu.
Anime Studio does the rest. Easily synchronize characters' lip
and mouth movements to a sound file through a simple and
intuitive process.
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Enhanced, Powerful Drawing Tools; Easy-to-Use Automatic Effects
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Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style
palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo, Image
Texture, and Gradients. Apply a cartoon style effect to any image
or video with a couple of mouse clicks. Easily select and remove
unwanted background colors from your images using the Image
ing tool. Draw with pattern brushes and create perspective
shadows with Anime Studio's layer ing feature.
Finish for Web, TV, Film, and Still Formats
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Output finished animations to popular movie formats, including
AVI, MOV, and Flash (SWF export for vector-based animations).
Upload your creations directly to Facebook or YouTube. Gather up
and organize all your project files in one location using the
Gather Media feature.
Follow Path Tool
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The Follow Path tool allows you to have any character or object
follow and bend itself along a pre-drawn path (like a snake),
making tons of animation possibilities easy.
Wacom Multi-Touch Support
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Wacom Multi-Touch support allows you to use Wacom's new
generation touch s with Anime Studio. Easily edit
characters, scale, rotate, pan, zoom in and out of the canvas
with simple finger gestures. Available on Bamboo, Intuos, and
Cintiq touch-based s.
- The revolutionary rigging system makes animating fast and an efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame animation. You can easily add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, and then bring it to life..
- With powerful vector based drawing tools, including a variety of brush styles and the ability to import scanned drawings and images, you can create your own characters and objects in Anime Studio Debut 9..
- The built-in Character Wizard lets you quickly design your own characters complete with walk cycles. Creating your own animations has never been faster or easier..
- The Beginner's Mode guides you through using the key tools in Anime Studio so you can start creating animated videos and shorts right away..
- Choose from a library of content including ready-to-use characters, props, scenes, stock audio and video clips, scatter brushes and more.