To make things look more realistic, there's a lip sync analyzer to make sure your characters lip-sync in time. You can bring life to your animations with sound (in WAV, AIFF, MP3 format). The aim of the studio is to make animation on your PC as natural as drawing with pen and paper. But if you’re creating a movie for the Cartoon Network, you owe it to yourself to check out Toon Boom Animate 2.Toon Boom Studio allows you to import media such as templates, movies and photos in SWF, AI, PSD, JPEG, TGA and GIF format.

If you’re an ActionScript programmer, or if you’re creating simple animations, you should probably stick with Adobe products.

Animate 2 also includes goodies such blend modes, velocity controls, and, thankfully, the ability to auto-distribute individual parts of a drawing to multiple layers. The developers have made more than 100 optimizations, using multithreading, disk caching, and optimized OpenGL support. If you’ve already been using Toon Boom Animate, what you’ll enjoy most about this new version is its speed. Toon Boom Animate 2 not only fills that gap, it also includes much-needed features like Xsheets, advanced rigging (with inverse kinematics), a rich set of drawing tools, TWAIN support for in-app scanning, advanced color palettes, and virtual cameras. While Adobe Flash CS5 gives you the basic tools you need to tween images, it lacks many tools pro animators have come to expect from higher-end animation apps. It creates Flash animations but you can create Flash animations with other programs, too. The full name of the Adobe Flash-file-creating program is Adobe Flash CS5. As there’s some confusion surrounding the word “Flash,” you should know that it’s both a file format (used to display animations-and other kinds of multimedia presentations-on the Web and other platforms) and also a program used to create those files. Toon Boom Animate 2 is the gold-standard tool for creating Flash animations.

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