Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced the release of Toon Boom Studio Express 4, which offers a more user-friendly interface to facilitate the animation process. Other feature highlights include calligraphic line styles for a unique animation look, feather edges for creating blurs and glows, vectorization using textures for bitmap integration, more peg functionalities such as element orient to motion path, and more than 30 other new features including Flash pre-loaders and HTML embedding.
Released in December of 2007, Toon Boom Studio 4 boasts greater flexibility to customize convenient workspaces. Its features and improvements include the ability to animate bitmap images like any other vector drawing; extended line styles for creating a multitude of styles including calligraphy; feather edges to creating vector blur or glow effects; more peg functionalities for easily creating improved motion effects; and advanced web publishing options for seamless playback on the internet. Studio 4 also offers support for Adobe Illustrator layers, the Vectorize Preview window, improved drawing tools, Alpha Onion Skinning and support of Tablet PC OS (for Windows XP and Vista).
Toon Boom Studio Express 4 runs on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Tablet PC, as well as Mac OS X v10.4 and v10.5. The package can be purchased now at the special launch price of $99.99, which will go up to $149.99 after April 30. Current Studio Express customers can upgrade from previous versions at the launch special of $9.99, versus $39.99. More Information is available online
at www.toonboom.com/products/toonBoomStudio/express.php.
