Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the upcoming release of Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and Flip Boom Classic. The enhanced products offer new features designed to streamline the animation process for both professional users and animators just getting their start.
The latest version of Studio offers better integration with Photoshop files, extended ease of use and more export options to iTunes and YouTube. Toon Boom is promoting it as the perfect upgrade for Flip Boom and Animation-ish, which are geared more to novice animators. Users can employ Studio 4.5 to add animation over videos, print drawings to create flipbooks or use as a reference and import multi-layer Photoshop files and create more impressive multiplane effects. The release also offers enhanced drag-and-drop capability and allows animators to import Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects for enhanced animation.
Toon Boom Studio 4.5 can be purchased at the special pre-launch price of $329.99 in the U.S. The offer is valid until July 31, 2008. All new clients will receive a Toon Boom Studio 4.0 key. Their Studio 4.5 license key will be automatically registered and emailed to them upon product release this August. More information is available online at www.toonboom.com/products/toonBoomStudio.
Flip Boom Classic is a new and improved version of Flip Boom, an animation solution for kids which won a Parent’s Choice Gold Award and was a finalist for the Canadian New Media Awards. The software allows youngsters to print flip books of their drawings. The new version features a resizable, user-friendly interface and gives users the ability to set up animation within the new camera frame, lay out drawings on top of each other and publish animation directly to an iPod.
Available in electronic format only, Flip Boom Classic runs on Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The software can be purchased for $39.99, and current Flip Boom customers can upgrade for $9.99. For more information, go to www.toonboom.com/products/flipboom.
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