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Anime Studio Pro is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface, pre-loaded content and powerful features such as a bone rigging system, integrated lip-synching, 3D shape design, physics, motion tracking and more, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools to speed up your workflow and combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology for the most unique animation program for digital artists. Resize your images with no loss in quality with Anime Studio's vector-based layer system, and easily add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life.Create High Quality AnimationsMake your own characters, objects and scenes using powerful vector-based drawing tools combined with ability to import your scanned drawings and images. Powerful Production ToolsRobust bone-rigging and drawing tools make character creation and animation easier than ever. Save time animating with the new Curve Profile, Follow Path and Stroke Exposure tools, plus new automatic line smoothing features. 3D Shape Design

Make your own 3D objects from vector layers and bring them into your 2D animation projects. Choose from Extrusion, Lathe and Inflate, then select from multiple shading options for your 3D model, including Smooth. Physics Simulation

Intuitively integrate simulated physics into your projects and create stunning animations where you set the density, gravity, friction and springiness of objects and see how they collide.Unlimited Output FormatsOutput to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash and more; share them on YouTubeTM or Facebook® or export your projects at the ideal resolutions for iPad®, iPhone® or DroidTM. Included ContentSave design time and fuel your creative power with the wide variety of content included in Anime Studio.Anime Studio Pro Content: With over 700 sample files, Anime Studio Pro is filled with content that includes the standard Anime Studio content files such as vector based anime characters, Jace, Liz, Thorn, Anime Boy, Aya and Winsor and Thunder, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props. Anime Studio Pro also includes extra content such as 3D models, 3D movies.Additional content, provided by long-time users and community members, serves as great starting points for a variety of projects. User generated content includes characters, objects, 3D items, movies and more.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. Pro Product Features

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

NEW! Physics Simulation
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.

NEW! 3D Shape Design
Create your own 3D objects from 2D vector layers and integrate 3D into your 2D animation projects. Choose from Extrusion, Lathe and Inflation, and select from multiple shading options for your 3D model, including smooth, toon and hatched styles.

NEW! Content Library
Anime Studio 7 utilizes a powerful flex-based 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. You can easily categorize your content and search for items by keyword. Add your selected content to your scenes through a simple drag and drop. You can even browse for additional Anime Studio compatible content available through Content Paradise right inside the library. The library also contains hundreds of pieces of ready-to-use content including characters, props, 3D models, stock video, sound effects and imagery to enhance your creations. The new Content Library is a great timesaver, allowing you to organize content across Anime Studio projects.

NEW! Advanced Tool Set
Anime Studio Pro 7 contains a variety of new powerful tools. The Follow Path tool allows you to have any character or object follow and bend along a pre-drawn path while the Stroke Exposure tool lets you reveal, hide and animate the stroke of your curve or drawing. Quickly select and remove unwanted background colors from your images with the Image Masking tool and change the style of any existing shape using the Curve Profile tool. Anime Studio Pro 7 provides a powerful and productive animation environment that minimizes production time and increases your productivity.

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! Poser Scene Import
Import your Poser Scenes into Anime Studio and combine 2D and 3D animation. Anime Studio actions and Morph Blending are also supported with the imported Poser Scene. The Poser tool allows you to select figures and actors within a scene, and easily adjust the parameters for the selected figure by using sliders that correspond to the dials in Poser. Requires Poser 7 and up.

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! Multithreaded Rendering
In Anime Studio Pro 7, when rendering out an animation the program takes advantage of multiple processor cores for multithreaded rendering. Using up to four CPU cores, Anime Studio Pro 7 can render scenes dramatically faster than before.

NEW! SendStuffNow®
Collaborating on Anime Studio projects is now easier than ever before. 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 invites for people that you want to share your content with. This is an ideal feature for anyone wanting to collaborate on projects with team members,

and serves as a great alternative to an ftp client, since recipients 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.

Support for layered Adobe Photoshop® documents.

Import Adobe Illustrator® files.

Built-in Pen Tablet Support
Draw naturally with a pen tablet such as the Wacom Intuos® 4 and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper. Anime Studio’s drawing tools support pressure sensitivity where applicable.

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. 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. Draw with pattern brushes, and 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.

Professional Output
Output video and animation of unlimited length to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV standard and Widescreen, HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p as well as AVI, MOV and Flash. Export your projects at the ideal resolutions for iPad®, iPhone® and DroidTM.

Save Time With Advanced 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.

Animate Using Bones
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.

Animate In Layers
Anime Studio takes advantage of graphical layers called Switch Layers, which make 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.

Anime Studio Pro includes additional animation features that speed up your workflow and give you greater control over your projects. Use Actions to create reusable animations for movements that you expect to use over and over again. Speed up or slow down the movement within a given action using Tweening. Fine tune acceleration movements, changes in direction and other properties of motion using the Graph Mode to see an animation curve plotted as values on a graph.

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 determine 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.

Content Library

Utilize a powerful new flex-based library to browse ready-to-use content or add and organize all of your own files.

Integrated Audio Recording

Record sound clips, then adjust pitch to fit your characters. Enjoy automatic lip-syncing powered by the AST ProductionSync™ library.

3D Integration

Orient and animate OBJ files from your favorite 3D apps. Poser® users can also add scenes to combine 2D/3D animations.

Video Motion Tracking

Attach animated objects to multiple target points in your video and watch them track accordingly throughout the clip. New Features

Simulated Physics

3D Shape Design

Content Library

Audio Recording

Advanced Tools

Sounds and Special EffectsAdd 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 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..Papagayo is still supported in Anime Studio Pro 7

Download Papagayo Documentation

Papagayo is free to download and use and is specifically designed to work with Anime Studio & Anime Studio Pro. Sync 'till your virtual lips are sore! Papagayo is available for Windows, & Mac OS X..

Download Papagayo 1.2 Win

Download Papagayo 1.2 Mac

Papagayo allows you to use multiple dictionary files. Myles Strous, a Papagayo user and contributor, has provided an extended dictionary file available below.

Download Extended Dictionary

Papagayo is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). This means that you are free to download the source code to Papagayo and make modifications to the program itself.

Download Papagayo Source

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

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.

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 use later.

Draw with pattern brushes, 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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