Toon Boom Animate 2 review
Sam Hampton-Smith checks out a fully-featured, Flash compatible animation suite for professionals
Toon Boom Animation articles
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Toon Boom Animate 2 announced
The upgrade offers more power and flexibility for creating traditional, digital, cut-out, and Flash-style animation.
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Toon Boom drops prices across cel animation software line
Citing feedback from users and the challenging economic climate, Toon Boom Animation has announced that the pricing of selected products has been significantly reduced. The company says that the new pricing strategy reflects Toon Boom's commitment to make its products more accessible and to offer animators better value.
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Activision sues Double Fine to stop release of Brutal Legend
At last week's E3, Tim Shafer gave us more of a taste of what his upcoming Brutal Legend would be like, and it looked tasty, only affirming it's title as being one of the most anticipated games of this year. However, "anticipated games of this year" could turn into "anticipated games of next year", as Activision is looking to halt the release of the game by suing the games developer Double Fine Productions.
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Toon Boom's Studio 5 gains stop-motion animation tools
Toon Boom Animation has launched Toon Boom Studio 5, a new version of the Toon Boom Studio 2.5D animation software that adds stop-motion animation tools to its existing array of animation capabilities.
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Toon Boom updates Storyboard tools
Toon Boom Animation has released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Storyboard 1.5 and Storyboard Pro 1.5 pre-viz and storybaording software.
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Toon Boom Animate Pro, Manager debut
Toon Boom Animation on Monday announced Toon Boom Animate Pro and Toon Boom Manager, two new products for animation professionals.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 raises the bar
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may "raise the bar for the shooter genre" yet again when it hits this holiday season, according to Activision CFO Thomas Tippl speaking at the Wedbush Morgan Securities annual meeting. "For 2009, we expect [Modern Warfare 2] will be the most anticipated game of the year," Tippl boldly claims, "Perhaps the number one game of the year despite the fact that it's only going to launch in the holiday season."
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Toon Boom Animation partners with iStockphoto
Animation software company Toon Boom Animation has announced a partnership with royalty-free stock library iStockphoto that provides Toon Boom users with access to free images as well as a special discount to buy credits.
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Toon Boom Animate review
In terms of both features and price, the new Animate sits between Toon Boom Studio and the more expensive Toon Boom Digital Pro. There are some anomalies, however.
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Toon Boom buys Animo-maker Cambridge Animation
Toon Boom Animation has announced it has closed a definitive agreement with Cambridge Animation Systems, to acquire all of the Intellectual Property of Cambridge and the Animo product line. The company says that "this acquisition furthers Toon Boom’s market consolidation strategy in the global animation industry and reinforces its leadership in the media, entertainment and educational arenas."
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Toon Boom Studio 4.5 released
Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and its Toon Boom Studio Importer to Flash (TBSi). This latest version enables users to create photo animation and live-action cartooning. Additional new features include a better integration with Photoshop files, extended ease of use, the ability to print, more export options to iTunes and YouTube as well as the import of Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects.
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Toon Boom releases Studio 4.5, Flip Boom Classic
Toon Boom Animation on Friday released two products, Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and Flip Boom Classic.
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Toon Boom ships Studio Express 4
Toon Boom Animation has released Studio Express 4 a new version of its animation creation software for Mac OS X and Windows aimed at enthusiasts. It costs US$99.99 (normally $149.99; approx. £50, normally £75)). Upgrades are priced at $9.99 (approx. £5) for a limited time.
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Toon Boom Studio 4.0 review
Toon Boom Studio offers many advanced features for animation, particularly among the vector-drawing tools used to create the scenes.
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Toon Boom Studio 4 ships
Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 4, increases the user's ability to create a wider range of animation styles easily, all within a more user friendly interface.
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Toon Boom Studio 4 offers new interface
Toon Boom Animation has today announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Studio 4, which creates animations for video, Web sites, television, film, games, and mobile devices, and more.
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Activision overtakes EA as top publisher
Activision is now the world's largest video game maker according to the LA Times. The company's rise above Electronics Arts as the top publisher is a result of Guitar Hero's massive success in addition to Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, and Spider-Man games.
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Toon Boom Storyboard released
Toon Boom Animation has announced the release of Toon Boom Storyboard for Mac OS X and Windows. It costs $249.99 (around £125), or $199.99 (£101).
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Toon Boom intros Storyboard Pro
Toom Boom Animation has announced the release of Storyboard Pro. The software costs $799.99 (£407).