There are many editors and converters for pre-existing videos, but much less attention is usually paid to the editors that allow creating your own videos of animations. Anime Studio Debut is here to fix that.
Despite its name, the program is not dedicated exclusively to Japanese style of animation. In fact, in it, you can make animation of any style you want - from Disney to anime to something even more exotic. Various features of Anime Studio Debut let you have full creative control over visual style and framing.
The basis of the program is the so-called bone-rigging - a technology of animation that saves a lot of time sparing you the tedious work of frame by frame animation. Bone-rigging makes creating scenes with the characters you design a lot easier and faster. Basically, you appoint bodily physics to the models of your characters, so that they move realistically without having to adjust their every move every time you want them to move. You just find a bone point you want to move, and the model moves appropriately.
Bone-rigging is used together with the interface timeline - a tool for scheduling and controlling your scenes. It lets you assign tasks and tools, as well as use Key Frames, a core element in creating animations and provide a level of speed and organization to your workflow previously unimaginable to amateur animators.
You can also draw the pictures you want to animate directly in Anime Studio Debut. The program is equipped with complex drawing tools for vector-based picture creation. After you draw and animate what you need, you can add audio tracks and sound effects, and even provide automatic lip syncing.
Other useful functions include image and sound tracking, extended character creator, options to convert the finished video into WEB-formats, etc.
The editor is supplied with extensive manuals, training tips and even Beginner's Mode helping inexperienced users grasp the full potential of the program. It makes Anime Studio Debut a product even children can learn to use.
v9.2.1.7295 [Feb 27, 2013]
Character Wizard
Hundreds of new characters. Quickly design ready-to-animate characters using the built-in Character Wizard. Select a preset, dial in the body proportions and choose from dozens of predesigned 2D components such as hands, feet, mouths, eyes, noses and heads.
Smart Tool Palette
The Smart Tool Palette provides a super-efficient, improved interface, which make using Anime Studio's enhanced drawing tools faster than ever. The translate, scale and rotate tools have been combined into one super tool called the Transformation tool.
Text Input, Line width and Word Balloons
Text input now allows for greater flexibility in specifying font, line width, color, kerning, and more. Use built-in word balloons in your animations. Adjust thickness of line width with more control. Magnet mode allows you to adjust and influence multiple points on a line.
Enhanced Keyframe Editing
Key Frames are a core element in creating animations and the enhancements in Anime Studio 9 provide a level of speed and organization to your workflow that will impress even the most proficient animator. You can now double click on the timeline to add key frames. One or several key frames can now be moved past each other. Scale your key frames vertically on the motion graph and apply relative key frame changes. Assign colors to keyframes in the timeline, to help keep track of animation sequences that relate to each other. You can also hold the duration of a particular key frame as long as you want now.
Enhanced Timeline with Colored Layers
Even easier to use than before, with a more intuitive user interface, faster access to critical and often-used tasks and tools, and new color-coding options that keep your project organized. Assign colors to layers in the layers palette, helping you keep track of layers that relate to each other in some way. You can also Undo/Redo layers now too.
Wacom Multi-Touch Support
Wacom Multi-Touch support allows you to use Wacom's new generation touch tablets with Anime Studio. Easily edit characters, scale, rotate, pan, zoom in and out of the canvas with simple finger gestures. Available on Bamboo, Intuos and Cintiq touch based tablets.
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