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Committed to top-of-the-line professional animation and with more than a decade of animation production expertise backing it, Toon Boom Animate Pro has more than one hundred new features. This is the answer to surpassing your client's expectations and making a profit at the same time.

Discover Top Animate Pro new features:

User Interface
Animate Pro’s new user interface has been enhanced with; redesigned icons, simplified contextual interface for each tool allowing you to set your preferences in a click and optimized with smaller views and toolbars providing maximum space for content creation.

• Colourful and intuitive Icons (new)
• Contextual property views (new)
• Swatch mode in Colour view (new)
• Coordinates toolbar (new)

Engine
Take full control of all 3 axes with Animate Pro. Move, scale and rotate any of your elements to create amazing 3D scenery with real-time playback.

• Rotation on all 3 axes for creation of complete 3D environment (new)
• Perspective view (new)

Content Creation
Creating amazing artwork is even easier with Animate Pro. Enjoy an enhanced Brush tool with new tips and shapes, Erase textures and vectors simultaneously, see the WYSIWYG preview, thanks to real-time antialiasing at camera resolution, edit several gradients or textures at the same time or edit cut areas on-the-fly.

• Brush tool (enhanced)
• Soft Eraser (new)
• Antialiasing (new)
• Smooth Tool (new)
• Overlay/Underlay drawing layer (new)
• Gradient and Texture editor (enhanced)
• Auto-Matte creation (new)
• Cutter selection editing (enhanced)
• Snap and Align (new)

Animation tools
Symbols and pegs work in unison. Save time with a new animated read module and avoid connecting Peg module everywhere before animating. Simulate a traditional exposure sheet by drawing your slugging or pacing directly in the Xsheet.

• Symbol (new)
• Animated read (new)
• Annotation column (new)
• Audio in Exposure Sheet (new)
• Timeline (enhanced)
• Inverse Kinematics (enhanced)

Supported Format
Toon Boom Animate Pro pipeline integration is extended with built-in import for MOV and built-in export to FLV. Imported Adobe Photoshop file preserves layers independently for flexible compositing.

• Export Flash Video FLV file (new)
• Import multi-layer Photoshop PSD file and maintain layer independent (new)
• Built-in QuickTime importer (enhanced)
• Import Animate and Digital Pro project (new)

Core Engine
At the heart of Animate Pro, the core engine is faster and supports OpenGL antialiasing. Activate securely over the internet and say goodbye to USB security dongle.

• Activation based licensing, no more dongle (new)
• Save As (new)
• Performance improvements (enhanced)
• External Player supports audio (enhanced)
• OpenGL support enhancement (Triple Buffer, Antialiasing…) (enhanced)
• Blending mode effect (Lighten, Soft-light, Hard-Light, Overlay) (new)

Windows

• Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or 7 (certified for 32 bits)
• 2GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
• 1 GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 300 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• NVIDIA® or ATI® Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for product activation
• Free Apple QuickTime® Player

Mac OS

• Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
• 2 GHz Intel® Core Duo processor
• 1GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 300 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for activation