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Create your own cartoons and animations!
Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio supplies what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available!

Anime Studio Debut, the fun, quick and affordable 2D animation software solution, includes everything aspiring artists and hobbyists need to create and share quality cartoons, movies, anime and cut out animations from start to finish. Anime Studio simplifies the animation process, empowering artists to design their projects faster and easier than ever before.

Get started quickly - Anime Studio Debut is packed with ready-to-use cartoon characters, props, video, and sounds so you can start creating your own animations right away. Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features giving you the jump needed from your first project onwards.
Your digital art, your way - To get started, sketch your original art, scan in or import video, or if you use a pen tablet you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.
Vector video provide power and flexibility - Use multiple layers and resize your images with no loss in quality.
Animate your characters using bones - Using Anime Studio's bone rigging system; you can add a skeleton to any image by point-and-click to bring it to life. With Anime Studio, there's no need to create new art for each individual frame as you animate. Just adjust the bones to your desired position and the program will generate the movement for you. It's that easy!
Direct your action with an intuitive timeline - Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.
Add an sound soundtrack to your animation - Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.
Publish for multiple media - Output your finished creations directly to YouTube™ or save as popular video, TV, and web formats, including SWF Flash animation files, as well as AVI and MOV movie files.
Anime Studio Debut Gets You Started Right Away!

 Free Characters - Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vector based characters you can use for your own animations.
 Free Tutorials - Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio’s powerful features and get you animating right away. 
 Import Your Art - Import your own illustrations or create unique characters for your cartoons. Animate anything within the reach of your imagination.
 Bring Photos to Life - Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Create your own cartoons and animations!

Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio supplies what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available

Design & Layout
Easily Create Objects
Create by drawing directly in Anime Studio with a new bundle of enhanced drawing tools or import your favorite digital images or artwork.

Draw directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or recreate the sensation of drawing on paper using a Pen Tablet. Anime Studio's vector-based drawing tools allow you to manipulate your art to get the exact look and feel you desire.
Anime Studio also allows you to import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Anime Studio Pro supplies 3D import capabilities, allowing you to import 3D OBJ files from Poser, Shade, Amapi and other 3D applications to use in your animations.
Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI format. Import sounds in WAV, AIFF, or M4A format and create your own fandubs and fansubs quickly and easily!

 
Total Layout Control
Layout and Organize Your Project

Anime Studio's new sequencer gives you total control over the creative process making it easy for you to organize and complete your project using multiple layers of sound, video, imagery, and animation.

Set up your 2D canvas to the exact dimensions you want. With Anime Studio Pro, you can even turn your canvas into a 3D stage with X, Y and Z coordinates. Easily produce your animation with added depth and dimension.
Using Anime Studio's vector-based video, you can freely adjust canvas resolution and size without losing image quality.
Anime Studio 6 incorporates a familiar layer based workflow, making it easy and efficient to organize your assets and create your animation. Save time by reusing your art - simply create an asset once and place it on a layer, then refer to that layer any time you need to reuse that piece of art.
Advanced layer features include Switch Layers. Anime Studio will rotate among all the layers in a set, showing only one layer at a time, saving you a great deal of time when animating body movements or facial expressions.
Rig your characters, objects and scenes with Anime Studio's revolutionary bone system that makes the animation process easier than ever before. Bones create a skeleton that determine joints or flex points in your artwork. Manipulate the bones your image into new positions without having to redraw! You can brainstorm of drawings in Anime Studio as soft rubber, and bones can be thought of as stiff wires inside the rubber that help you move and position objects on the screen. Bones are never displayed in a final render, they're just used as tools during the animation process.
Organize your project in Anime Studio using keyframe animation and a timeline. All you need to do is position your image on the canvas and manipulate the project timeline. The program will interpolate the motion between positions for you! In Anime Studio Pro, you can also fine tune your animations with powerful timeline controls, including onion skins, tweening and graph mode.
In Anime Studio, create animations up to two minutes long, or unlimited length in the Pro version.

 
Multimedia Finish
Finish for Web, TV, Film and Still Formats

With Anime Studio 6, you can output your finished work to a variety of standard formats.

Output your finished animations to popular movie formats, including AVI, MOV and Flash (SWF export for vector based animations).
With Anime Studio Pro, you can easily transfer your work to other popular video programs to utilize assets for other projects or to add color to your art. Output video and animation of unlimited length to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash and more.
 
Animation
Animation Techniques
Traditional animation was created by drawing frames one after another, each frame drawn slightly different from the last. Anime Studio will help you simulate frame-by-frame animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for frame-by-frame animation.

Anime Studio offers you the flexibility to create animations using several techniques that can be combined to deliver the effects you need in your project.

Rigging Your Characters Using Bones.
Anime Studio's unique bone rigging allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be parts of your animation, so the animation is easier than ever before. Even beginners new to animation will find this powerful feature to be a breakthrough.

Bones rigging helps to build animations by creating joints or flex points in your artwork. Add bones simply by point-and-click to your character, drawing or object. Then move the bones like puppet to manipulate your image into new positions without having to redraw!
Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. Creating animation is that easy.
Bones are interdependent just like a skeleton. When you adjust one bone, all other bones connected will be moved in response to this movement.
Anime Studio's bone rigging also uses spring-like simulation to calculate dynamic bone movement, making a wide range of movements seem real, such as jumping, waving flabby body parts, and bouncing hair.

Animating In Layers.
Anime Studio takes advantage of graphical layers called Switch Layers, which makes 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 video, you can to add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.

 
More Features

Extra animation features include:

Cycling keyframe interpolation. Anime Studio will automatically cycle a section of animation, repeating it over again as many times as you wish.
Onion Skins show the position of the objects in your scene at a given point in time. Click on any point in the timeline to see onion skins in Anime Studio.
Actions are little clips of animation that are associated with a layer or group of layers. In Anime Studio Pro, use Actions to create reusable animations for movements that you expect to use over and over again.
In Anime Studio Pro, tweening adjusts the pace of movement within a given action, you can slow it down or speed it up.
Anime Studio Pro's Graph mode allows you to inspect an animation curve plotted as values on a graph, which helps with evaluating acceleration, changes in direction, and other properties of motion.
 
Sounds & unique FX
Sounds & Lip-Synching
Add a soundtrack to your animations, including lip-synching!

Import sound clips into your project and Anime Studio 6 will automatically insert them into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing and length to fit your scene. With the new Sequencer you can freely move multiple sounds along the timeline to adjust synching. Anime Studio 6 supports WAV, AIFF, and M4A formats.

Lip-Synching functionality is now built into Anime Studio 6. Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer you wish to synch, select the sound file from a pull-down menu. Anime Studio 6 does the rest.

Lip Synching in Anime Studio Debut 6 - Easily synchronize characters lips and mouth movements to sound file through a simple and intuitive process. This version of lip-synching is based on sound amplitude making the approach simple and straight forward yet still offering realistic results.
Lip Synching in Anime Studio Pro 6 - Built on the AST Production sync library you can now easily synchronize characters lips and mouth through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.

 
Create Amazing unique Effects
Anime Studio 6 allows you to add many unique effects to your projects, or you can create your own using Anime Studio Pro.

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.

Anime Studio Pro includes additional features to create effects for your work:
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 use later.
Draw with pattern brushes, 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.
 
Included Content
Save design time and fuel your creative power with the wide variety of content included in Anime Studio.
 
Anime Studio includes the following content:
Hundreds of sample files make it easy to get up to speed, so you can start creating your own animations quickly. Samples serve as starting points, or explore them to learn more about the richness of Anime Studio. Samples include anime characters, Jace, Thorne and Thunder, video files, sound files, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props.
 
Anime Studio Pro includes the following content:
With over 700 sample files, Anime Studio Pro is filled with content that includes the standard Anime Studio content files such as vector based anime characters, Thorne, Thunder, and Jace, Aya and Winsor, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props. Anime Studio Pro also includes extra content such as 3D models, 3D movies. Additional content has been provided by long time users and community members, that also serve as great starting points. User generated content includes characters, objects, 3D items, movies and more.
 
Add-On Content Available Through Content Paradise :
Smith Micro will be creating additional content, images and materials for use in Anime Studio, which will be available through Content Paradise. Visit Content Paradise!

 
System Requirements:

Windows

Windows XP, Win 7; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent.
250MB free Harddrive space
256MB RAM
1024x768 resolution
16-bit color display
*Anime Studio Debut is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32Bit Application.

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 1 Year Product Support (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)