Toon Boom Animation announced today that it has decided to phase out Toon Boom Concerto, its year-old solution for paperless, digital, re-use or cutout animation production. The company says the package’s swan song was written by the superior toolset offered by its latest release, Toon Boom Harmony.
Concerto was launched in April of 2004 to enable studios to work in one single, integrated pipeline and create fewer drawings due to a high level of re-use. Key features it added to the Toon Boom OPUS toolset include advanced keyframing, sound scrubbing and the ability to draw directly in 3D scene planning.
Building on Opus and Concerto’s capabilities, Toon Boom Harmony boasts more advanced features such as morphing, inverse kinematics and "glue." Harmony, which runs on Linux, PC and Mac, also includes a global template library that facilitates the reuse of assets, all set up in an integrated pipeline.
Toon Boom will still offer Opus, an industry standard for traditional animation production that offers scanning, inking, painting, compositing and rendering capabilities. Also available is Toon Boom Studio, a application that is more ideal for independent animators working out of their home studios. Toon Boom also offers consulting and training services dedicated to increasing animation production efficiency and quality.
Major companies using Toon Boom’s products include Nelvana, Klasky Csupo, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal, Mercury Filmworks, Wild Brain, King Camera, Cromosoma and Lanterna Magica. For more information, visit Toon Boom at www.toonboom.com.
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