Developed by animators for animators, Toon Boom Studio offers intuitive and easy-to-use drawing tools. In addition to onion skinning, automatic gap-closing and a full screen rotary light table, Studio 4.5 can import a wide range of media to create live-action cartoons and rotoscoping.

Toon Boom Studio offers true animation features designed to facilitate the creation of any styles of animation, including traditional frame-by-frame animation, keyframe animation, cut-out, photo animation and live-action cartoon.

In addition to printing, Toon Boom Studio creates high quality animation for any media including the web, iPod, YouTube, cell phones and PDAs, TV and HDTV. Studio 4.5 supports all major industry standards including SWF, QuickTime, AVI, DV, and image sequences.

Import movie files and start drawing on top of them to create Roger Rabbit style live-action cartoon animation. Use Toon Boom Studio 4.5 to combine animation with home videos to create unique stories. You can also explore rotoscoping by tracing over live-action videos and create even more realistic animation.

  Content Creation

	Design Content Toon Boom Studio offers intuitive and easy to use drawing tools. Take advantage of customizable grid, auto gap closing and a unique powerful Colour Palette system. Use advanced features such as feathered edges or line styles to create a personalized look. Import and Manage Content With Toon Boom Studio, you can import and manage all kinds of assets, including digital pictures, movies or sound files. In addition to supporting all-well known standard formats, Toon Boom Studio includes advanced import and vectorizing capabilities to import and animate paper drawings or digital pictures.
Automated Lip Synching Toon Boom Studio is the only software for creative minds that offers fully automated lip-syncing capabilities. Unlike other tools, Toon Boom Studio analyzes sound files and is completely language independent. Just import your sound file and click the lip-sync button to get the job done.
Animation & Scene Planning Traditional Animation Developed by animators for animators, Toon Boom Studio offers all the traditional animation features such as a full screen rotary drawing table with onion skinning, a virtual light table, exposure sheet and much more.
Keyframe Animation Easily click and drag to animate your assets with the Transform tool. Use the powerful peg system to create more advanced movement to animate using a motion path. Access advanced features or fine tune your animation with the function editor to set the perfect timing. Cut-Out Animation Create a character structure to animate your cut out characters using forward kinetics. Use the Transform tool to easily add animation to your characters and props. No need to add keyframes, focus on the movement and let Toon Boom Studio do the rest.
Add Special FX Adding special effects in your project is a great way to raise the quality of your animation. Use adapted tools to add tones and highlight effects. Use special effects including the dynamic drop shadow, masking layers and color transform.
3D Scene Planning It’s simple to set up a scene in Toon Boom Studio. It takes only seconds to populate a scene with templates, using drag-and-drop and sceneplanning tools. Take advantage of a virtual 3D environment to layout your assets in your projects and create realistic depth. Camera Effects Toon Boom Studio uses a camera in a virtual 3D environment to set the action. Be the director of your own masterpiece. Create stunning visual effects in seconds setting up multiple cameras and using the camera, side and top views to plan your scene.

What's new in ToonBoom Studio

Use your digital camera as a high quality source of photographic material to create animations with. Import your photos and build a library of key poses which you can animate using cut-out techniques. The more facial expressions and body positions you have, the more interesting your animation!

Create multi-layer backgrounds and characters in Adobe® Photoshop® and import them into Toon Boom Studio 4.5 preserving all layer information. Easily create even more impressive camera moves and explore new cut-out techniques to animate your characters.

Easily drag and drop templates, movies, photos into Toon Boom Studio 4.5 to consolidate your material and start animating faster. This new and exciting user interface capability offers greater flexibility and speeds up the creation process.

Bring your Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects to the next level by adding sound, effects and camera moves in Toon Boom Studio 4.5. With Studio 4.5, you can expand your publishing options and show even more of your animation talent.

In addition to the new printing capabilities, Toon Boom Studio 4.5 increases your export options by using iTunes and YouTube formats. Print drawings to create flipbooks or to use as a reference. Export directly to iTunes and YouTube and share your animation with your friends.