Anime Studio 6 Pro

A vector-based animation suite, Anime Studio 6 Pro is a highly detailed animation application designed with the digital artist in mind. Allowing high quality animation without the frustration of endless frame-by-frame graphics, Anime Studio 6 Pro lets digital animators work with vector and layer models to create great graphics quickly and easily.

Traditional animation methods are becoming less and less effective in a digital age. While frame-by-frame animation was once standard, digital animation options such as Anime Studio 6 allow animators to create ultra-high quality animations without the endless busywork of frame-by-frame animation.

Anime Studio 6 Pro includes a built-in audio and lip-syncing tool, allowing animators to easily synchronize their visual and audio data. The built-in AST Production Synch libraries allow for accurate, clear, and believable lip and face animation.

Users will enjoy built-in special effects options, allowing them to easily transform and edit their anime creations. Although animations are vector-based, editing them to appear as watercolor paintings, manipulated images, and pattern-brushed characters is all possible using built-in effects. Particle effects and multiple layers make it easy to add dynamic weather, setting, and seasonal effects to animations.

Finally, Anime Studio 6 Pro tackles one of the major problems for digital animators: natural movement. By using different layers for animation - known as 'Switch Layers' - users can easily connect animation data to create 'chain' movements, dynamic facial expressions, and variable lip-synching animations. By combining different animations into one fluid motion, animators can deliver natural, smooth animation without having to create thousands of separate frames.

Anime Studio Pro: What We Liked

• Vector models are easy to edit and remove the need for tedious frame-by-frame editing.
• Built-in special effects are easy to use and add flair to animations.
• Chain movements make dynamic, fluid animation relatively simple.

Anime Studio Pro: What We Didn't Like

• Program operation can sometimes be sluggish, and stability could be a problem for low performance PCs.

Smith Micro Support

Anime Studio 6 Pro is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7, and Mac OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard. Smith Micro provide online support and documentation for users.

About Smith Micro

Smith Micro offer a range of PC design, animation, and drawing tools. Specializing in anime and digital art, their products allow users to create detailed digital drawings, animate through vectors and frames, and even design 3D models and settings.

     

Anime Studio Pro 6 is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame detailing when creating quality animations. The all-in-one animation tool for professionals and digital artists!

With an intuitive interface loaded with pre-rigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow. Anime Studio combines cutting-edge features with powerful technology to deliver the most unique animation program for digital artists. Resize your images with no loss in quality using Anime Studio's vector-based layer system. Also, using the bone rigging system you can add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life!

Create Professional Animations
With powerful vector based drawing tools and the ability to import scanned drawings and images, you can create your own characters and objects in Anime Studio Pro 6.

Integrated Lip Synching Lip-Synching is now possible with the integration of the powerful AST Production Synch libraries, giving you versatility and accurate lip and mouth movements.

Unlimited Professional Output - Output to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash and more.

Powerful Animation and Creation Tools - Improved bone-rigging and drawing tools make character creation and animation easier than ever. Save time with the new Auto weld and path-close features, vastly improved text and Adobe® Illustrator® import, and improved vector-based drawing tools.

Advanced Compositing - Anime Studio's new Sequencer makes it easy to visually arrange and edit all project components. Add multiple soundtracks and sound effects, composite video, images and animation and pan audio.

Special Effects
Add special effects to your animations. Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Splotchy, Spots, Halo and Gradients. Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects. Script commands to call in pre-made particle effects like smoke or explosions. Make your own styles by saving your favorite sets of effects for later use. Draw with pattern brushes, and create perspective shadows with Anime Studio's layer masking feature. Create glows and outlines with the shadow options or create other visuals. Use particle layers to create the flurry of flying objects, including water, smoke, swarms of insects and more.

Professional Output
Output video and animation of unlimited length to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV standard and Widescreen, HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p, as well as AVI, MOV and Flash.

Save Time With Advanced Animation Capabilities
Anime Studio offers you the flexibility to create animations using several techniques that save you time and make the animation process easier than ever before. Combine techniques to deliver the effects you need for any project.

Animate Using Bones
Anime Studio's unique bone-based animation technology allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be parts of your animation. Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. The program will interpolate the motion between positions for you! Animating is that easy.

Animate In Layers
Anime Studio takes advantage of graphical layers called Switch Layers, which make it easier to work with a combination of connected movements that occur along a timeline. This is especially valuable for animating body movements or facial expressions, such as creating lip-synch animations, when each graphical layer can be a mouth shape for a different sound.

Animate the Individual Points on an Object
Using Anime Studio's vector-based graphics, you can to add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.

Anime Studio Pro includes additional animation features that speed up your workflow and give you greater control over your projects. Use Actions to create reusable animations for movements that you expect to use over and over again. Speed up or slow down the movement within a given action using Tweening. Fine tune acceleration movements, changes in direction and other properties of motion using the Graph Mode to see an animation curve plotted as values on a graph.