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

Anime Studio Pro is Versatile and Powerful:

 Extensive Content Library - Anime Studio Pro includes many exclusive, royalty-free, vector-based characters and props, as well as stock video and images.
 3D Capabilities - Blend 2D and 3D with Anime Studio Pro. Easily import and orient textured OBJs from your favorite 3D applications such as Poser and Poser Pro.  
 Import Your Art - With vector-based drawing tools and the ability to import scanned drawings and images, you can create your own characters and objects.
 Bring Photos to Life - Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Design & Layout
Easily Create Objects
Create your characters and objects by drawing directly in Anime Studio or by importing your existing 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. Create your own fandubs and fansubs quickly and easily!

 
Total Layout Control
Layout and Organize Your Project

Anime Studio gives you total control over your canvas and makes it easy for you to organize and complete your project using layers.

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 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. Anime Studio Pro exports to JPG, BMP, PNG and TGA file formats, and even allows you to export your artwork as layered PSD files.
 
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.
Anima 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 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.

Papagayo is still supported in Anime Studio Pro 6.

Software Papagayo Documentation

Papagayo is free to Software and use and is specifically designed to work with Anime Studio & Anime Studio Pro. Sync 'till your virtual lips are sore! Papagayo is available for Windows, & Mac OS X.
Software Papagayo 1.2 Win
Software Papagayo 1.2 Mac
Papagayo allows you to use multiple dictionary files. Myles Strous, a Papagayo user and contributor, has provided an extended dictionary file available below.
Software Extended Dictionary
Papagayo is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). This means that you are free to Software the source code to Papagayo and make modifications to the program itself.
Software Papagayo Source

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

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 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 6.
 
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!

 
New Features
NEW! Redesigned User Interface and toolset provide a powerful and productive animation environments that minimixes production time and increases your productivity.

NEW! Sequencer - Easily adjust the timing and synchronization of sound and video tracks by utilizing the simple timeline. Mix and match sound, video, images and animated components to create digital shorts and animations.

NEW! Motion Tracking - Objects can now be attached to visual markers in any video clip allowing you to easily match object and video motion for pro results.

NEW! Integrated Lip-Syncing - Built on the AST production sync library you can now easily synchronize characters lips and mouths through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.

NEW! Scatter Brush - Paint with vectors while controlling the size and spacing of each individual object. Allows you to easily create seemingly random fills such as grass, bubbles or stars in a night sky.

NEW! Scripting with LUA 5.1 - An update to the versatile LUA engine with more exposure of Anime Studio's inner workings, provide you with the power to create your own tools and plug-ins, create particle effects such as fire and explosions, and customize tool behaviors, to help your workflow.

NEW! Auto Shading - Similar to Ambient Occlusion, Anime Studio creates realistic shading based on lines and object contrast within each layer creating stylistic 3D effects.

NEW! Content Library - Anime Studio 6 now boasts a visual content library containing hundreds of pieces of content including ready to use characters, props, 3D models, stock video, sound effects and imagery to enhance your creations.

NEW! Morph Targets - Create, save, and blend morph targets to combine character expressions and emotions. Save and reuse previous poses and character positions, even blend colors and fills with this time saving and versatile feature.

HD Video help - Buy help for importing and exporting High Definition video files then integrate with toon characters, props, sound, and unique effects for stunning High-Def creations.

help for layered Adobe Photoshop® documents.

Built-in Pen tablet help - Draw naturally with a pen tablet such as the Wacom Intuos® 4 and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper. Anime Studio 6 drawing tools help pressure sensitivity where applicable.
unique Effects
Add unique 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.

pro 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 video, 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.

System Requirements:

Windows
Windows XP, Win 7; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent.
250MB free Harddrive space
256MB RAM
1024x768 resolution
16-bit color display
CD-ROM drive (for physical version of application)

*Anime Studio Pro 6 is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio 6 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)