Singaporean students fascinated by the delightful two-dimension animation cartoons of Sponge Bob Square Pants, The Simpsons and The Rugrats now have the opportunity to master the technology behind these celebrated cartoon series and showcase their creative works for international voting and judging as part of a digital animation competition.
Singapore is the first country to host the inaugural Toon Boom Animation Festival, which kicks off on April 2 2007.
The festival is co-organised by Toon Boom Animation, tghe Canadian High Commission and Media Development Authority of Singapore, with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) as a Technology Partner. It aims to encourage Singaporean students to express their creativity and talent through creating animation content using Toon Boom software, which has been used extensively by industry professionals to create popular animation series such as Spongebob Squarepants and the Simpsons.
If Singapore edition is successful, Toon Boom says that the Festival will travel to the other parts of the world, starting with Brazil later this year.
Toon Boom Animation has released the first Service Pack for its Toon Boom Studio 3.5 cartoon animation software, which adds support for Microsoft's newly released Windows Vista operating system.
Toon Boom Animation has released version 3.5 of its Toon Boom Studio cel-animation software, with a number of new features based on customer feedback, according to the company.
Toon Boom has announced version 3.5 of its Toon Boom Studio cel animation software, which will ship in September.
Toon Boom Animation has announced a new cel animation package aimed at independent animators and small studios.
Digitized 2D cell animation is a tricky thing to get right. The toolset required seems similar to those in any other drawing application, but in reality they need to be a lot more specialized. Toon Boom Studio 2.5 offers a decent and robust toolset together with a clearly set-out workflow for 2D animation.
Toon Boom Animation has announced that Toon Boom Studio 2.5 will ship in early December.
Toon Boom Animation has released Opus II and Concerto Service Pack 1, significant updates to the 2D animation and workflow tools.
Toon Boom Animation has introduced Symphony, a 2D animation solution offering drawing and asset management tools.
Toon Boom has announced the launch of Concerto, an animation and production workflow system for large collaborative projects, based on the USAnimation OPUS system. Toon Boom claims that Concerto offers studios increased productivity, raises animation quality and eliminates file management issues.
Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio v2.5 for Mac OS X, the latest upgrade to the company's cartoon animation software. New features in Toon Boom Studio v2.5 include sound scrubbing in the timeline, the ability to draw in Sceneplanning and support for scanning.
A public beta of Toon Boom Studio 2.5 for Mac has been announced. The beta will be available from Toon Boom Technologies’ Web site from February 25. Registered owners of previous versions of Toon Boom Studio for Mac will be eligible to take part in the beta testing.
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