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Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available! Anime Studio Debut, the fun, quick and affordable 2D animation software solution, includes everything aspiring artists and hobbyists need to create and share quality cartoons, movies, anime and cut out animations from start to finish. Anime Studio simplifies the animation process, empowering artists to design their projects faster and easier than ever before.Quickly work in any style you chooseAnime Studio Debut includes a Beginner's Mode, allowing you to quickly make yourself familiar with the program. Anime Studio comes with a content library full of ready-to-use cartoon characters, props, video, and sounds so you can start creating your own animations right away. Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features giving you the jump needed from your first project onwards.

To get started, sketch your original art, scan it, import graphics or draw using your mouse or tablet. If you use a pen tablet, you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper. A variety of customizable brush styles make creating original artwork a snap.

Flexibility and controlVector graphics provide you with both power and flexibility. Create animations using multiple layers and resize your images with no loss in quality. Using Anime Studio's bone rigging system, bring any image to life. Simply point and click to add a skeleton! With Anime Studio, there's no need to create new art for each individual frame as you animate. Just adjust the bones to your desired position and the program will generate the movement for you. It's that easy!

Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.Add an audio soundtrack to your animationAdd emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV, MP3 and AIFF formats.
Anime Studio lets you to record your own sound clips right inside the program. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lip-synching.

Publish for multiple mediaOutput your finished creations directly to YouTube™ and Facebook® or save as popular video, TV, and web formats, including SWF Flash animation files, as well as AVI and Quicktime® MOV movie files.

Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available! Included ContentSave design time and fuel your creative power with the wide variety of content included in Anime Studio. Anime Studio Debut ContentHundreds of sample files make it easy to get up to speed, so you can start creating your own animations quickly. Samples serve as starting points for a project or you can examine samples to learn more about the features and capabilities of Anime Studio. Samples include anime characters, Liz, Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Thunder, video files, audio files, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props.

More Content at Content Paradise Content Paradise is an online marketplace designed to support artists and designers like you. You can buy and sell 2D and 3D content, audio, and software! From furniture and cars to trees and people, Content Paradise provides tools and materials that get your creative projects done faster. Are you into art, creativity, and digital graphics? Have an interest in making some money or even earning your living doing what you love to do? If that's your dream, Content Paradise can help! Every artist and designer has the opportunity to sell their creations at Content Paradise. Debut Product Features

Debut is full of great features that will help you bring your imagination to life.

NEW! Beginner's Mode
Start animating right away. The Beginner's Mode displays the key tools used in Anime Studio, and includes feature rollover descriptions and video tutorials to quickly get you familiar with the program. You can easily toggle between the Beginner's Mode and the regular Tool Palette.

NEW! Integrated Audio Recording
Record your own sound clips right within Anime Studio, and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lip-synching.

NEW! Content Library
Keeping all of your Anime Studio content organized has never been easier. Quickly browse through existing content or save your own content to the library. Add content to your scenes with a simple drag and drop or search for items by keyword. You can even browse for additional Anime Studio content available on Content Paradise right inside the library.

NEW! Toon Image & Video Filter
Apply a cartoon style effect to any image or video with a couple of mouse clicks. Fine-tune and customize the toon filter settings by adjusting the saturation, lightness, edge level and more.

NEW! Brush Styles
Choose from a variety of customizable brush styles and pattern brushes when creating your own artwork in Anime Studio. Adjust the angle and spacing of the brush style, and see a real-time preview of your customized brush before starting your drawing.

NEW! Image Masking
You no longer need other graphics applications to cut yourself out of a photograph and create cut-out animations in the style of JibJab.com.
Easily select and remove unwanted background colors from your images using the Image Masking tool.

NEW! Follow Path Tool
You can select any character or object to follow and bend along a pre-drawn path, making animating along curves easy. In addition to bending along the path, you can also choose to have the object automatically orient itself to follow the path it's been assigned to.

NEW! More Ready-To-Use Content
Anime Studio Debut provides an extensive content library with hundreds of pieces of ready-to-use content that includes fully rigged, vector-based characters like Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Liz, as well as props, scenes, action words, stock video and images, sound effects and more so you can start creating your own animations right away.

NEW! Gather Media
You no longer have to worry about broken images or missing files in your Anime Studio project file when moving any of the included assets (audio, video, images) to a different machine or location on your hard drive. The Gather Media function collects all files (audio, video, images) that are part of your animation project, and then creates folders for the collected media.

NEW! SendStuffNow®
Easily share your Anime Studio projects with friends. The integrated SendStuffNow feature allows you to create an archive of your project within Anime Studio and then seamlessly upload it to the web. You can then create email invites for friends whom you want to share your content with. This serves as a great alternative to an ftp client, since your friends can access the download link from any browser. A free one year subscription to the SendStuffNow service is included with your Anime Studio purchase, offering 2GB of storage and 4GB of bandwidth per month.

Design Your Own Characters and Objects
Design your own characters and objects by drawing directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or pen tablet. Import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI formats.

Animate Using Bones
Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation. Anime Studio's unique bone-based animation technology allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be part of your animation. Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. The program will interpolate the motion between positions for you! Animating is that easy.

Advanced, Time-Saving Animation Capabilities
Anime Studio offers you the flexibility to create animations using several techniques that save you time and make the animation process easier than ever before. Combine techniques to deliver the effects you need for any project.

Special Effects
Add special effects to your animations. Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo and Gradients. Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects.

Design and LayoutEasily Create ObjectsCreate by drawing directly in Anime Studio with a new suite of enhanced drawing tools or import your favorite digital images or artwork.

Draw directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or recreate the sensation of drawing on paper using a Pen Tablet. Anime Studio's vector-based drawing tools allow you to manipulate your art to get the exact look and feel you desire.

Anime Studio also allows you to import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Anime Studio Pro provides 3D import capabilities, allowing you to import 3D OBJ files from Poser, Shade, Amapi and other 3D applications to use in your animations.

Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI format. Import sounds in WAV, AIFF, or M4A format and create your own fandubs and fansubs quickly and easily!

Organize Your Project with Complete ControlAnime Studio's new sequencer gives you total control over the creative process making it easy for you to organize and complete your project using multiple layers of audio, video, imagery, and animation.

Set up your 2D canvas to the exact dimensions you want. With Anime Studio Pro, you can even turn your canvas into a 3D stage with X, Y and Z coordinates. Easily produce your animation with added depth and dimension.

Using Anime Studio's vector-based graphics, you can freely adjust canvas resolution and size without losing image quality.

Anime Studio 7 incorporates a familiar layer based workflow, making it easy and efficient to organize your assets and create your animation. Save time by reusing your art - simply create an asset once and place it on a layer, then refer to that layer any time you need to reuse that piece of art.

Advanced layer features include Switch Layers. Anime Studio will rotate among all the layers in a set, showing only one layer at a time, saving you a great deal of time when animating body movements or facial expressions.

Rig your characters, objects and scenes with Anime Studio's revolutionary bone system that makes the animation process easier than ever before. Bones create a skeleton that determines joints or flex points in your artwork. Manipulate the bones in your image into new positions without having to redraw! You can think of drawings in Anime Studio as soft rubber, and bones can be thought of as stiff wires inside the rubber that help you move and position objects on the screen. Bones are never displayed in a final render, they're just used as tools during the animation process.

Organize your project in Anime Studio using keyframe animation and a timeline. All you need to do is position your image on the canvas and manipulate the project timeline. The program will interpolate the motion between positions for you!

In Anime Studio Pro, you can also fine tune your animations with powerful timeline controls, including onion skins, tweening and graph mode. Create animations up to two minutes long with Anime Studio Debut, or unlimited length with the Pro version.

Finish for Web, TV, Film and Still FormatsWith Anime Studio 7, you can output your finished work to a variety of standard formats.

Output your finished animations to popular movie formats, including AVI, MOV and Flash (SWF export for vector based animations).

With Anime Studio Pro, you can easily transfer your work to other popular graphics programs to utilize assets for other projects or to add color to your art. Output video and animation of unlimited length to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash and more.

Create.

Make your own characters and objects with intuitive draw, paint and fill tools.

Animate.

Just point-and-click to create a skeleton that is easily animated.

Edit.

Use multiple layers to edit your animation, add sound and special effects.

Publish.

Upload and share on YouTube™ and Facebook® from within Anime Studio.

Free Characters

Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, Liz, Anime Boy and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vector-based characters you can use for your own animations.

Tons of Tutorials

Tutorials, videos and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.

Bring Photos to Life

Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Import & Export Your Art

Import your own illustrations including layered Adobe Photoshop art. Export all your project's files in one click with the Gather Media function.New Features

Sounds and Special EffectsSounds and Lip-SynchingAdd a soundtrack and lip-synching 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 7 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.

Built-in lip syncing in Anime Studio is a huge timesaver. Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer you wish to synch, select the sound file from a pull-down menu. Anime Studio 7 does the rest.

Lip Synching in Anime Studio Debut 7
Easily synchronize characters lip and mouth movements to sound file through a simple and intuitive process. This version of lip-synching is based on sound amplitude making the approach simple and straight forward yet still offering realistic results.

Lip Synching in Anime Studio Pro 7
Built on the AST Production sync library you can easily synchronize characters' lips and mouth movements through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.

Create Amazing Special EffectsAnime Studio Debut 7 allows you to add many special effects to your projects, or you can create your own using Anime Studio Pro 7.

Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo and Gradients

Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects.

Anime Studio Pro includes additional features to create effects for your work.

Script commands to call in pre-made particle effects like smoke or explosions.

Make your own Styles by saving your favorite sets of effects for later use.

Create perspective shadows with Anime Studio's layer masking feature.

Create glows and outlines with the shadow options or create other visuals.

Use particle layers to create the flurry of flying objects, including water, smoke, swarms of insects and more.

AnimationTechniquesTraditional animation was created by drawing frames one after another, each frame drawn slightly different from the last. Anime Studio will help you simulate frame-by-frame animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for frame-by-frame animation. Anime Studio offers you the flexibility to create animations using several techniques that can be combined to deliver the effects you need in your project.

Rigging Your Characters Using Bones
Anime Studio's unique bone rigging allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be part of your animation, making animation easier than ever before. Even beginners new to animation will find this powerful feature to be a breakthrough.

Bone rigging helps to build animations by creating joints or flex points in your artwork. Add bones simply by point-and-click on your character, drawing or object. Then move the bones like a puppet to manipulate your image into new positions without having to redraw!
Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. Creating animation is that easy.
Bones are interdependent just like a skeleton. When you adjust one bone, all other bones connected will be moved in response to this movement.
Anime Studio's bone rigging also uses spring-like simulation to calculate dynamic bone movement, making a wide range of movements seem real, such as jumping, waving flabby body parts, and bouncing hair.

Animating In Layers
Anime Studio takes advantage of graphical layers called Switch Layers, which makes it easier to work with a combination of connected movements that occur along a timeline. This is especially valuable for animating body movements or facial expressions, such as creating lip-synch animations, when each graphical layer can be a mouth shape for a different sound.

Animate the Individual Points on an Object
Using Anime Studio's vector-based graphics, you can add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.

Animate using Physics
Anime Studio Pro 7 features a powerful rigid body physics engine that allows objects to collide with and bounce off of each other. Set the density, springiness and gravity of objects and create stunning animations. Easily integrate physics animation into your existing animation projects. Set up motors to move shapes, force fields to control the direction of objects, or automatically convert characters with rigged bone systems to ragdoll physics objects. The Physics engine is a big timesaver, allowing you to automate parts of your animation.

More FeaturesExtra animation features include:

Cycling keyframe interpolation. Anime Studio will automatically cycle a section of animation, repeating it over again as many times as you wish.

Onion Skins show the position of the objects in your scene at a given point in time. Click on any point in the timeline to see onion skins in Anime Studio Pro.

Actions are little clips of animation that are associated with a layer or group of layers. In Anime Studio Pro, use Actions to create reusable animations for movements that you expect to use over and over again.

In Anime Studio Pro, tweening adjusts the pace of movement within a given action, you can slow it down or speed it up.

Anime Studio Pro's Graph mode allows you to inspect an animation curve plotted as values on a graph, which helps with evaluating acceleration, changes in direction, and other properties of motion.

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