The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has honored Toon Boom Animation with a 2005 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for its traditional animation software solution, USAnimation Opus. The package is used around the world by such companies as Walt Disney Television, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Nelvana, China Central TV, Alphanim, Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Warner Bros.
Opus allows studios to create higher-quality animation at significantly lower cost. The package features digital ink-and-paint, sceneplanning, effects and compositing tools and seamless 2D/3D integration, all in a configurable user interface.
“We are extremely proud to receive this award and are grateful to the Academy for recognizing the great contribution USAnimation Opus has made to the animation industry targeted for television, comments Toon Boom president and CEO Joan Vogelesang. "Since our vector technology extensively developed in Opus has been deployed to our entire family of products, this Emmy award applies to all of them.”
Vogelesang’s efforts in promoting the Indian animation sector earned her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 2004. Since 1999, Toon Boom has advocated the potential of India as an animation destination and has established working relationships with a number of successful studios.
Toon Boom will receive the Emmy statuette at the award ceremony on September 11, 2005, in Los Angeles. The company’s other animation products include Toon Boom Harmony and Toon Boom Studio. Some of the high-profile productions completed with these tools include The Triplettes of Belleville, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Rugrats and SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie. For more information, find Toon Boom online at www.toonboom.com.
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