Recommended Configuration
800 MHz Intel® Pentium® III
Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Vista
512 MB RAM
24bit colour display capable of 1024x768 resolution
Video card supporting Direct 3D or OpenGL
Wacom® Digital Drawing Tablet optional
Free QuickTime® Player

  Minimum Configuration
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
XP requires Service Pack 2
256 MB RAM
100 MB of available hard disk space
Video card supporting Direct 3D or OpenGL
Free QuickTime® Player

Complete Animation for Professionals and Digital Artists

Anime Studio Pro is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious framebyframe detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface, preloaded content and powerful features such as a bone rigging system, integrated lipsynching, 3D shape design, physics, motion tracking and more, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools to speed up your workflow and combines cuttingedge features with powerful technology for the most unique animation program for digital artists. Resize your images with no loss in quality with Anime Studio's vectorbased layer system, and easily add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life.
Anime Studio Improves Workflow with New, Comprehensive Tools 

Create High Quality Animations
Make your own characters, objects and scenes
using powerful vectorbased drawing tools
combined with ability to import your scanned
drawings and images.

Physics Simulation
Intuitively integrate simulated physics into
your projects and create stunning animations
where you set the density, gravity, friction and
springiness of objects and see how they collide.

Unlimited Output Formats
Output to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV
Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p
and 1080; AVI, MOV, Flash and more.  3D Shape Design
Make your own 3D objects from vector layers
and bring them into your 2D animation
projects. Choose from Extrusion, Lathe and
Inflate, then select from multiple shading
options for your 3D model, including Smooth,
Toon and Hatched.

Powerful Production Tools
Robust bonerigging and drawing tools make
character creation and animation easier than
ever. Save time animating with the new Curve
Profile, Follow Path and Stroke Exposure tools,
plus new automatic line smoothing features. 

Content Library
Utilize a powerful new flexbased library to browse readytouse content or add and organize all of your own files.   

Integrated Audio Recording
Record sound clips, then adjust pitch to fit your characters. Enjoy automatic lipsyncing powered by the AST ProductionSync library. 
 
3D Integration
Orient and animate OBJ files from your favorite 3D apps. Poser users can also add scenes to combine 2D/3D animations   

Video Motion Tracking
Attach animated objects to multiple target points in your video and watch them track accordingly throughout the clip. 

Key Features

NEW Set the density, gravity, friction, and springness of objects and see how they collide with Simulated Physics
NEW Make 3D objects from 2D vector layers
NEW Quickly organize and access your content with the new library resource
NEW Animate curves with precision tools
NEW Record your own sound clips from within Anime Studio
NEW Use StuffIt Connect to upload video and project files to the web and make collaboration easier than ever
NEW Import Poser Scenes and combine 2D and 3D animation
NEW Gather up and organize all your project files in one location
Implement realistic shading based on line and object contrast within each layer
Make your characters talk with automatic lipsyncing features
Easily combine video, audio and animation
Attach objects to video with Motion Tracking
Import Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator files
Pen tablet support simulates drawing on paper
Add effects like motion blur and shadows
Output in HD or for the web; easily export your projects at ideal resolutions for iPad, iPhone, and Droid
Customize functionality with LUA scripts
Upload directly to YouTube and Facebook

System Requirements
Windows 7, XP, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent; 600 MB free hard drive space

Note Anime Studio Pro is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32bit Application

Common System Requirements 256MB RAM; 1024x768 resolution; 16bit color display; CDROM drive; Adobe Flash Player 9 or newer embedded library, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or newer; Internet connection required for Content Paradise; Poser Scene Import Requires Poser 7 or later.

Create Your Own Cartoons & Animations

Create.
Make your own characters and objects with intuitive draw, paint and fill tools

Animate.
Just pointandclick to create a skeleton that is easily animated.

Edit.
Use multiple layers to edit your animation, add sound and special effects.

Publish.
Upload and share on YouTube and Facebook from within Anime Studio

Free Characters
Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, Liz, Anime Boy and many other exclusive, royaltyfree, vectorbased characters you can use for your own animations

Bring Photos to Life
Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Tons of Tutorials
Tutorials, videos and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.

Import & Export Your Art
Import your own illustrations including layered Adobe Photoshop art. Export all your project's files in one click with the Gather Media function.

Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides 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

Quickly work in any style you choose
Anime Studio Debut includes a Beginner's Mode, allowing you to quickly make yourself familiar with the program. Anime Studio comes with a content library full of readytouse 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

To get started, sketch your original art, scan it, import graphics or draw using your mouse or tablet. If you use a pen tablet, you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper. A variety of customizable brush styles make creating original artwork a snap.

Flexibility and control
Vector graphics provide you with both power and flexibility. Create animations using multiple layers and resize your images with no loss in quality.

Using Anime Studio's bone rigging system, bring any image to life. Simply point and click to add a skeleton 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

Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.

Add an audio soundtrack to your animation
Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV, MP3 and AIFF formats.
Anime Studio lets you to record your own sound clips right inside the program. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lipsynching.

Publish for multiple media
Output your finished creations directly to YouTube and Facebook or save as popular video, TV, and web formats, including SWF Flash animation files, as well as AVI and Quicktime MOV movie files

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

Included Content
Save design time and fuel your creative power with the wide variety of content included in Anime Studio.

Anime Studio Debut 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 for a project or you can examine samples to learn more about the features and capabilities of Anime Studio.

Samples include anime characters, Liz, Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Thunder, video files, audio files, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props.

More Content at Content Paradise
Content Paradise is an online marketplace designed to support artists and designers like you. You can buy and sell 2D and 3D content, audio, and software From furniture and cars to trees and people, Content Paradise provides tools and materials that get your creative projects done faster.

Are you into art, creativity, and digital graphics Have an interest in making some money or even earning your living doing what you love to do If that's your dream, Content Paradise can help Every artist and designer has the opportunity to sell their creations at Content Paradise.

Debut Product Features
Debut is full of great features that will help you bring your imagination to life.

NEW Beginner's Mode
Start animating right away. The Beginner's Mode displays the key tools used in Anime Studio, and includes feature rollover descriptions and video tutorials to quickly get you familiar with the program. You can easily toggle between the Beginner's Mode and the regular Tool Palette

NEW Integrated Audio Recording
Record your own sound clips right within Anime Studio, and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lipsynching.

NEW Content Library
Keeping all of your Anime Studio content organized has never been easier. Quickly browse through existing content or save your own content to the library. Add content to your scenes with a simple drag and drop or search for items by keyword. You can even browse for additional Anime Studio content available on Content Paradise right inside the library.

NEW Toon Image & Video Filter
Apply a cartoon style effect to any image or video with a couple of mouse clicks. Finetune and customize the toon filter settings by adjusting the saturation, lightness, edge level and more.

NEW Brush Styles
Choose from a variety of customizable brush styles and pattern brushes when creating your own artwork in Anime Studio. Adjust the angle and spacing of the brush style, and see a realtime preview of your customized brush before starting your drawing.

NEW Image Masking
You no longer need other graphics applications to cut yourself out of a photograph and create cutout animations in the style of JibJab.com.
Easily select and remove unwanted background colors from your images using the Image Masking tool.

NEW Follow Path Tool
You can select any character or object to follow and bend along a predrawn path, making animating along curves easy. In addition to bending along the path, you can also choose to have the object automatically orient itself to follow the path it's been assigned to.

NEW More ReadyToUse Content
Anime Studio Debut provides an extensive content library with hundreds of pieces of readytouse content that includes fully rigged, vectorbased characters like Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Liz, as well as props, scenes, action words, stock video and images, sound effects and more so you can start creating your own animations right away.

NEW Gather Media
You no longer have to worry about broken images or missing files in your Anime Studio project file when moving any of the included assets audio, video, images to a different machine or location on your hard drive. The Gather Media function collects all files audio, video, images that are part of your animation project, and then creates folders for the collected media.

NEW StuffIt Connect
Easily share your Anime Studio projects with friends. The integrated StuffIt Connect feature allows you to create an archive of your project within Anime Studio and then seamlessly upload it to the web. You can then create email invites for friends whom you want to share your content with. This serves as a great alternative to an ftp client, since your friends can access the download link from any browser. A free one year subscription to the StuffIt Connect service is included with your Anime Studio purchase, offering 2GB of storage and 4GB of bandwidth per month.

Design Your Own Characters and Objects
Design your own characters and objects by drawing directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or pen tablet. Import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI formats.

Animate Using Bones
Pointandclick to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional framebyframe animation. Anime Studio's unique bonebased animation technology allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be part 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.

Advanced, TimeSaving 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.

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, Halo and Gradients. Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects

Design and Layout
Easily Create Objects
Create by drawing directly in Anime Studio with a new suite 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 vectorbased 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 provides 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
Organize Your Project with Complete Control
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 audio, 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 vectorbased graphics, you can freely adjust canvas resolution and size without losing image quality.
Anime Studio 7 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 determines joints or flex points in your artwork. Manipulate the bones in your image into new positions without having to redraw You can think 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. Create animations up to two minutes long with Anime Studio Debut, or unlimited length with the Pro version.
Finish for Web, TV, Film and Still Formats
With Anime Studio 7, 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 graphics 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.

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 framebyframe animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for framebyframe 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 part of your animation, making animation easier than ever before. Even beginners new to animation will find this powerful feature to be a breakthrough.
&9702;Bone rigging helps to build animations by creating joints or flex points in your artwork. Add bones simply by pointandclick on your character, drawing or object. Then move the bones like a puppet to manipulate your image into new positions without having to redraw
&9702;Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. Creating animation is that easy.
&9702;Bones are interdependent just like a skeleton. When you adjust one bone, all other bones connected will be moved in response to this movement.
&9702;Anime Studio's bone rigging also uses springlike 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased graphics, you can add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.
Animate using Physics
Anime Studio Pro 7 features a powerful rigid body physics engine that allows objects to collide with and bounce off of each other. Set the density, springiness and gravity of objects and create stunning animations. Easily integrate physics animation into your existing animation projects. Set up motors to move shapes, force fields to control the direction of objects, or automatically convert characters with rigged bone systems to ragdoll physics objects. The Physics engine is a big timesaver, allowing you to automate parts of your animation.
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 Pro.
Actions are little clips of animation that are associated with a layer or group of layers.

Sounds and Special Effects
Sounds and LipSynching
Add a soundtrack and lipsynching to your animations Record your own sound clips inside Anime Studio and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters or import existing audio files into your project. Anime Studio 7 will automatically insert them into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing and length to fit your scene. Using the Sequencer, freely move multiple sounds along the timeline to adjust syncing. Anime Studio supports WAV, AIFF, MP3 and M4A formats.

Builtin lip syncing in Anime Studio is a huge timesaver. Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer you wish to synch, select the sound file from a pulldown menu. Anime Studio 7 does the rest.

Lip Synching in Anime Studio Debut 7
Easily synchronize characters lip and mouth movements to sound file through a simple and intuitive process. This version of lipsynching is based on sound amplitude making the approach simple and straight forward yet still offering realistic results.

Built on the AST Production sync library you can easily synchronize characters' lips and mouth movements through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.
Create Amazing Special Effects
Anime Studio Debut 7 allows you to add many special effects to your projects.

Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo and Gradients
Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects.
Script commands to call in premade particle effects like smoke or explosions.
Make your own Styles by saving your favorite sets of effects for later use.
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.

System Requirements
Windows 7 64bit support, XP, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent; 610 MB free hard drive space Note Anime Studio Debut is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32bit Application
Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4 or higherincluding Snow Leopard, PowerPC G4/G5 or newer 500MHz or above; 680 MB free hard drive space
Common System Requirements 1024x768 resolution; 16bit color display; CDROM drive; Adobe Flash Player 9 or newer embedded library, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or newer; Internet connection required for Content Paradise.

The allinone animation tool for professionals and digital artists Anime Studio Pro 6 is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious framebyframe detailing when creating quality animations.
 
With an intuitive interface loaded with prerigged characters and additional content, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools and effects to speed up your workflow. Anime Studio combines cuttingedge 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 vectorbased 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 LipSynching 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 bonerigging and drawing tools make character creation and animation easier than ever. Save time with the new Auto weld and pathclose features, vastly improved text and Adobe Illustrator import, and improved vectorbased 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.

Anime Studio Pro is Versatile and Powerful

 Extensive Content Library Anime Studio Pro includes many exclusive, royaltyfree, vectorbased 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 vectorbased 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 vectorbased 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 provides 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 graphics, 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 think 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 graphics 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 framebyframe animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for framebyframe 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 pointandclick 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 springlike 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased graphics, 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 & Special FX
Sounds & LipSynching
Add a soundtrack to your animations, including lipsynching

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.

LipSynching 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 pulldown 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.

Download Papagayo Documentation

Papagayo is free to download 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.
Download Papagayo 1.2 Win
Download 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.
Download Extended Dictionary
Papagayo is licensed under the GPL GNU General Public License. This means that you are free to download the source code to Papagayo and make modifications to the program itself.
Download Papagayo Source

 
Create Amazing Special Effects
Anime Studio Pro 6 allows you to add many special 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 premade 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.
 
AddOn 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 audio and video tracks by utilizing the simple timeline. Mix and match audio, 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 professional results.

NEW Integrated LipSyncing 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 plugins, create particle effects such as fire and explosions, and customize tool behaviors, to support 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 Support Full support for importing and exporting High Definition video files then integrate with toon characters, props, audio, and special effects for stunning HighDef creations.

Support for layered Adobe Photoshop documents.

Builtin Pen tablet support 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 support pressure sensitivity where applicable.
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 premade 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 bonebased 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased 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.

System Requirements

Windows
Windows XP, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent.
250MB free hard drive space
256MB RAM
1024x768 resolution
16bit color display
CDROM 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.

Create Your Own Cartoons and Animations

Anime Studio, the fun, quick and affordable 2D animation software solution, includes everything aspiring artists and hobbyists need to create 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 is packed with readytouse anime style characters 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 graphics, or if you use a pen tablet you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.

Vector graphics 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 pointandclick 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 audio soundtrack to your animation Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.

Integrate with Adobe Photoshop Import layered PSD files using a Photoshop plugin that converts files to Anime Studio format, included free with Anime Studio.

Publish for multiple media Output your finished creations as to popular video, TV, and web formats, including SWF Flash animation files, as well as AVI and MOV movie files.
Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides what you need to create your own animations faster than anything else available

Design Your Own Characters and Objects
Design your own characters and objects by drawing directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or pen tablet. Import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI formats.

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 bonebased 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased graphics, you can to add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.
 
 Create Amazing 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.

 
Add Soundtracks to Your Animations
Import a sound clip into your project and Anime Studio will automatically insert it into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing and length to fit your scene. Anime Studio supports WAV and AIFF formats.

Packed With ReadytoUse Content
Over 60 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, Aya and Winsor, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery, and props.

Windows

Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows XP Home/Professional/Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista
500 MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent Processor minimum
256 MB RAM minimum
100 MB free hard disk space minimum
16 bit color 65,536 colors display or above 1024x768 resolution
CDROM for physical version of application 

Real time image deformation and animation

Deformer transforms images through a collection of visual tools. Import any image file or scan a photo, then export to caricature or movie. All deformations and animation playback run in REAL TIME regardless of the size of original image

Export AVI, animated GIF, sequences

Export of animated GIFs

Save/Print file sequences

Save output of arbitrary resolution

More file formats
  Now you can export animation directly to AVI, animated GIF, or image file sequence for later use in other animation and video editing packages

You can save and print arbitrary selections of animation frames

You can set arbitrary output resolution

Deformer now supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, FlashPix,  PCX, PhotoCD, PNG,  PSD, TARGA, and TIFF   formats
Bigger and Better Pictures

Smooth picture preview and playback

Enlarged work area
  Program now runs in 800x600 screen. Picture workarea is enlarged to 412x412 pixels and pictures are now displayed with interpolation without resamplinginduced artefacts

Interpolation now can also be turned on during animation playback. You can preview movie with best attainable output quality.
More deformation tools

Global effects

New realtime instruments
  

Deformer 2.0  incorporates 28 additional tools including famous plasticity filters of PM Rubber Explosions, Collapses, Ripples, Pixel Storm etc that work in REAL TIME

Plus Global Effects Whirls, Waves and others that act on the whole image
Project compositing

Load new picture into project

Apply stored project to the picture

Onthefly compression of animation projects

Control interframe transition length
  Animation compositing tools are much more handy now. You can reuse animation projects for new pictures and control interframe transition length to get smoother effect. Projects are automatically compressed during saving to save disk space

System requirements
Pentium processor, 16MB RAM, 5 MB of free disk space, 800 x 600 minimum screen resolution,  Windows'95/98 or NT 4.0 operating system

Recommended Configuration
800 MHz Intel® Pentium® III
Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Vista
512 MB RAM
24bit colour display capable of 1024x768 resolution
Video card supporting Direct 3D or OpenGL
Wacom® Digital Drawing Tablet optional
Free QuickTime® Player

  Minimum Configuration
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
XP requires Service Pack 2
256 MB RAM
100 MB of available hard disk space
Video card supporting Direct 3D or OpenGL
Free QuickTime® Player

Complete Animation for Professionals and Digital Artists

Anime Studio Pro is perfect for professionals looking for a more efficient alternative to tedious framebyframe detailing when creating quality animations. With an intuitive interface, preloaded content and powerful features such as a bone rigging system, integrated lipsynching, 3D shape design, physics, motion tracking and more, Anime Studio Pro delivers advanced animation tools to speed up your workflow and combines cuttingedge features with powerful technology for the most unique animation program for digital artists. Resize your images with no loss in quality with Anime Studio's vectorbased layer system, and easily add a skeleton to any image by simple point and click, then bring it to life.
Anime Studio Improves Workflow with New, Comprehensive Tools 

Create High Quality Animations
Make your own characters, objects and scenes
using powerful vectorbased drawing tools
combined with ability to import your scanned
drawings and images.

Physics Simulation
Intuitively integrate simulated physics into
your projects and create stunning animations
where you set the density, gravity, friction and
springiness of objects and see how they collide.

Unlimited Output Formats
Output to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV
Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p
and 1080; AVI, MOV, Flash and more.  3D Shape Design
Make your own 3D objects from vector layers
and bring them into your 2D animation
projects. Choose from Extrusion, Lathe and
Inflate, then select from multiple shading
options for your 3D model, including Smooth,
Toon and Hatched.

Powerful Production Tools
Robust bonerigging and drawing tools make
character creation and animation easier than
ever. Save time animating with the new Curve
Profile, Follow Path and Stroke Exposure tools,
plus new automatic line smoothing features. 

Content Library
Utilize a powerful new flexbased library to browse readytouse content or add and organize all of your own files.   

Integrated Audio Recording
Record sound clips, then adjust pitch to fit your characters. Enjoy automatic lipsyncing powered by the AST ProductionSync library. 
 
3D Integration
Orient and animate OBJ files from your favorite 3D apps. Poser users can also add scenes to combine 2D/3D animations   

Video Motion Tracking
Attach animated objects to multiple target points in your video and watch them track accordingly throughout the clip. 

Key Features

NEW Set the density, gravity, friction, and springness of objects and see how they collide with Simulated Physics
NEW Make 3D objects from 2D vector layers
NEW Quickly organize and access your content with the new library resource
NEW Animate curves with precision tools
NEW Record your own sound clips from within Anime Studio
NEW Use StuffIt Connect to upload video and project files to the web and make collaboration easier than ever
NEW Import Poser Scenes and combine 2D and 3D animation
NEW Gather up and organize all your project files in one location
Implement realistic shading based on line and object contrast within each layer
Make your characters talk with automatic lipsyncing features
Easily combine video, audio and animation
Attach objects to video with Motion Tracking
Import Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator files
Pen tablet support simulates drawing on paper
Add effects like motion blur and shadows
Output in HD or for the web; easily export your projects at ideal resolutions for iPad, iPhone, and Droid
Customize functionality with LUA scripts
Upload directly to YouTube and Facebook

System Requirements
Windows 7, XP, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent; 600 MB free hard drive space

Note Anime Studio Pro is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32bit Application

Common System Requirements 256MB RAM; 1024x768 resolution; 16bit color display; CDROM drive; Adobe Flash Player 9 or newer embedded library, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or newer; Internet connection required for Content Paradise; Poser Scene Import Requires Poser 7 or later.

Create Your Own Cartoons & Animations

Create.
Make your own characters and objects with intuitive draw, paint and fill tools

Animate.
Just pointandclick to create a skeleton that is easily animated.

Edit.
Use multiple layers to edit your animation, add sound and special effects.

Publish.
Upload and share on YouTube and Facebook from within Anime Studio

Free Characters
Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, Liz, Anime Boy and many other exclusive, royaltyfree, vectorbased characters you can use for your own animations

Bring Photos to Life
Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Tons of Tutorials
Tutorials, videos and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.

Import & Export Your Art
Import your own illustrations including layered Adobe Photoshop art. Export all your project's files in one click with the Gather Media function.

Whether you're a digital enthusiast, a newcomer to animation, or if you want to create art for work or fun, Anime Studio provides 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

Quickly work in any style you choose
Anime Studio Debut includes a Beginner's Mode, allowing you to quickly make yourself familiar with the program. Anime Studio comes with a content library full of readytouse 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

To get started, sketch your original art, scan it, import graphics or draw using your mouse or tablet. If you use a pen tablet, you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper. A variety of customizable brush styles make creating original artwork a snap.

Flexibility and control
Vector graphics provide you with both power and flexibility. Create animations using multiple layers and resize your images with no loss in quality.

Using Anime Studio's bone rigging system, bring any image to life. Simply point and click to add a skeleton 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

Setting your movements to a timeline makes animation easy to understand. Anime Studio will create animations up to two minutes long.

Add an audio soundtrack to your animation
Add emotion and style to your animations by adding sound. Anime Studio supports WAV, MP3 and AIFF formats.
Anime Studio lets you to record your own sound clips right inside the program. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lipsynching.

Publish for multiple media
Output your finished creations directly to YouTube and Facebook or save as popular video, TV, and web formats, including SWF Flash animation files, as well as AVI and Quicktime MOV movie files

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

Included Content
Save design time and fuel your creative power with the wide variety of content included in Anime Studio.

Anime Studio Debut 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 for a project or you can examine samples to learn more about the features and capabilities of Anime Studio.

Samples include anime characters, Liz, Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Thunder, video files, audio files, backgrounds, animation, characters, scenery and props.

More Content at Content Paradise
Content Paradise is an online marketplace designed to support artists and designers like you. You can buy and sell 2D and 3D content, audio, and software From furniture and cars to trees and people, Content Paradise provides tools and materials that get your creative projects done faster.

Are you into art, creativity, and digital graphics Have an interest in making some money or even earning your living doing what you love to do If that's your dream, Content Paradise can help Every artist and designer has the opportunity to sell their creations at Content Paradise.

Debut Product Features
Debut is full of great features that will help you bring your imagination to life.

NEW Beginner's Mode
Start animating right away. The Beginner's Mode displays the key tools used in Anime Studio, and includes feature rollover descriptions and video tutorials to quickly get you familiar with the program. You can easily toggle between the Beginner's Mode and the regular Tool Palette

NEW Integrated Audio Recording
Record your own sound clips right within Anime Studio, and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters. Recordings get saved and then automatically added to your timeline for quick lipsynching.

NEW Content Library
Keeping all of your Anime Studio content organized has never been easier. Quickly browse through existing content or save your own content to the library. Add content to your scenes with a simple drag and drop or search for items by keyword. You can even browse for additional Anime Studio content available on Content Paradise right inside the library.

NEW Toon Image & Video Filter
Apply a cartoon style effect to any image or video with a couple of mouse clicks. Finetune and customize the toon filter settings by adjusting the saturation, lightness, edge level and more.

NEW Brush Styles
Choose from a variety of customizable brush styles and pattern brushes when creating your own artwork in Anime Studio. Adjust the angle and spacing of the brush style, and see a realtime preview of your customized brush before starting your drawing.

NEW Image Masking
You no longer need other graphics applications to cut yourself out of a photograph and create cutout animations in the style of JibJab.com.
Easily select and remove unwanted background colors from your images using the Image Masking tool.

NEW Follow Path Tool
You can select any character or object to follow and bend along a predrawn path, making animating along curves easy. In addition to bending along the path, you can also choose to have the object automatically orient itself to follow the path it's been assigned to.

NEW More ReadyToUse Content
Anime Studio Debut provides an extensive content library with hundreds of pieces of readytouse content that includes fully rigged, vectorbased characters like Jace, Thorn, Anime Boy and Liz, as well as props, scenes, action words, stock video and images, sound effects and more so you can start creating your own animations right away.

NEW Gather Media
You no longer have to worry about broken images or missing files in your Anime Studio project file when moving any of the included assets audio, video, images to a different machine or location on your hard drive. The Gather Media function collects all files audio, video, images that are part of your animation project, and then creates folders for the collected media.

NEW StuffIt Connect
Easily share your Anime Studio projects with friends. The integrated StuffIt Connect feature allows you to create an archive of your project within Anime Studio and then seamlessly upload it to the web. You can then create email invites for friends whom you want to share your content with. This serves as a great alternative to an ftp client, since your friends can access the download link from any browser. A free one year subscription to the StuffIt Connect service is included with your Anime Studio purchase, offering 2GB of storage and 4GB of bandwidth per month.

Design Your Own Characters and Objects
Design your own characters and objects by drawing directly in Anime Studio using a mouse or pen tablet. Import your existing 2D images and Photoshop files to get started. Import your own video clips in MOV and AVI formats.

Animate Using Bones
Pointandclick to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional framebyframe animation. Anime Studio's unique bonebased animation technology allows you to create a skeleton that can be manipulated to animate characters, simple drawings, or objects that will be part 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.

Advanced, TimeSaving 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.

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, Halo and Gradients. Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects

Design and Layout
Easily Create Objects
Create by drawing directly in Anime Studio with a new suite 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 vectorbased 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 provides 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
Organize Your Project with Complete Control
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 audio, 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 vectorbased graphics, you can freely adjust canvas resolution and size without losing image quality.
Anime Studio 7 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 determines joints or flex points in your artwork. Manipulate the bones in your image into new positions without having to redraw You can think 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. Create animations up to two minutes long with Anime Studio Debut, or unlimited length with the Pro version.
Finish for Web, TV, Film and Still Formats
With Anime Studio 7, 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 graphics 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.

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 framebyframe animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for framebyframe 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 part of your animation, making animation easier than ever before. Even beginners new to animation will find this powerful feature to be a breakthrough.
&9702;Bone rigging helps to build animations by creating joints or flex points in your artwork. Add bones simply by pointandclick on your character, drawing or object. Then move the bones like a puppet to manipulate your image into new positions without having to redraw
&9702;Add keyframes to your timeline and adjust your bone movements, then move down the timeline and repeat the process. Creating animation is that easy.
&9702;Bones are interdependent just like a skeleton. When you adjust one bone, all other bones connected will be moved in response to this movement.
&9702;Anime Studio's bone rigging also uses springlike 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased graphics, you can add points to a line and then adjust the line position as you change your timeline to create motion.
Animate using Physics
Anime Studio Pro 7 features a powerful rigid body physics engine that allows objects to collide with and bounce off of each other. Set the density, springiness and gravity of objects and create stunning animations. Easily integrate physics animation into your existing animation projects. Set up motors to move shapes, force fields to control the direction of objects, or automatically convert characters with rigged bone systems to ragdoll physics objects. The Physics engine is a big timesaver, allowing you to automate parts of your animation.
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 Pro.
Actions are little clips of animation that are associated with a layer or group of layers.

Sounds and Special Effects
Sounds and LipSynching
Add a soundtrack and lipsynching to your animations Record your own sound clips inside Anime Studio and adjust the pitch from high to low to fit your animated characters or import existing audio files into your project. Anime Studio 7 will automatically insert them into your timeline, where you can adjust the timing and length to fit your scene. Using the Sequencer, freely move multiple sounds along the timeline to adjust syncing. Anime Studio supports WAV, AIFF, MP3 and M4A formats.

Builtin lip syncing in Anime Studio is a huge timesaver. Simply load a sound file, and from the layer options of the layer you wish to synch, select the sound file from a pulldown menu. Anime Studio 7 does the rest.

Lip Synching in Anime Studio Debut 7
Easily synchronize characters lip and mouth movements to sound file through a simple and intuitive process. This version of lipsynching is based on sound amplitude making the approach simple and straight forward yet still offering realistic results.

Built on the AST Production sync library you can easily synchronize characters' lips and mouth movements through a simple and intuitive process that yields extremely accurate results.
Create Amazing Special Effects
Anime Studio Debut 7 allows you to add many special effects to your projects.

Customize colors and fills for your objects using the Style palette. Add line effects such as Shaded, Soft Edge, Halo and Gradients
Manipulate the camera around your scene to create action and drama in your projects.
Script commands to call in premade particle effects like smoke or explosions.
Make your own Styles by saving your favorite sets of effects for later use.
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.

System Requirements
Windows 7 64bit support, XP, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent; 610 MB free hard drive space Note Anime Studio Debut is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32bit Application
Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4 or higherincluding Snow Leopard, PowerPC G4/G5 or newer 500MHz or above; 680 MB free hard drive space
Common System Requirements 1024x768 resolution; 16bit color display; CDROM drive; Adobe Flash Player 9 or newer embedded library, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or newer; Internet connection required for Content Paradise.

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 provides 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 readytouse 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 graphics, or if you use a pen tablet you can recreate the sensation of drawing on paper.
Vector graphics 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 pointandclick 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 audio 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, royaltyfree, vector based characters you can use for your own animations.
 Free Tutorials Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studios 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 provides 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 suite 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 vectorbased 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 provides 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 audio, 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 vectorbased graphics, 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 think 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 graphics 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 framebyframe animations, yet drastically reduces the time required for framebyframe 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 pointandclick 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 springlike 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 lipsynch 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 vectorbased graphics, 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 & Special FX
Sounds & LipSynching
Add a soundtrack to your animations, including lipsynching

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.

LipSynching 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 pulldown 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 lipsynching 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 Special Effects
Anime Studio 6 allows you to add many special 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 premade 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, audio 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.
 
AddOn 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, Vista; 500MHz Intel Pentium or equivalent.
250MB free hard drive space
256MB RAM
1024x768 resolution
16bit color display
Anime Studio Debut is compatible with 64bit Windows operating systems however Anime Studio is a 32Bit Application.