TVPaint Development announces the availability of the international version of TVP Animation 1.0a, a graphic content and 2D animation solution. This software, due to its bitmap approach, is called to cover the essential needs of any artist. It provides them with a fully customizable drawing toolset.
TVP Animation is the first release of a new range of TVPaint products, taking advantage of the TVPaint technology, world famous since its performances with Newtek's Aura and Bauhaus Software's Mirage and always improved for better results. TVPaint Animation will fit in any production workflows, traditional, fully digital or hybrid since its workflow make it able to fit in any production pipeline, from sketches to complex sequences using a multiplane camera or particles effects.
A brand new range of functionalities have been implemented, including :
* Full sequence preview including non-applied FX Stack.* Improved drawing tools with Sub-pixel accuracy and AntiAliasing for all that make these tools ones of the most accurate and fast-responding of the market.* New scan abilities to offer more comfort to import your scanned sequences. TVP Animation becomes the ultimate tool to quickly check your line tests from your scanned sequences.* Video grabbing functions (WDM compliant on PC and Quicktime compliant on Mac) to allow the use of DVcamera to grab your stop-motion animations.* The Animator Panel that contains all the shortcuts to the functions which will simplify the work of the animators regarding the project navigation, layers and images management as well as the project global management. You will be also able to manage your favorite brushes very easily as well as the plug-ins made by the community for the community. Several of them are already available.* Several new abilities for animators like a rotative workarea, Timeline's bookmarks, the FlipAnim tool (to play your animation like a flipbook) and the Shaker (simply press a key to check your current layer, so useful on big projects), a multilayer CutOut brush to create brushes from a whole project, an Gap-Closer option for the Floodfill tool
TVP Animation also includes some powerful effects:*Multiplane Camera: An easy-to-use effect to create complex animated animations using an unlimited number of layers, a multiplane camera managing the focusing distance and the parallax scrolling automatically computed and includes a 3D view to simplify the manipulation. Using the Multiplane Camera Wizard to create panoramas with automatic planes andd focus management becomes a child's play * The Particles Engine: TVP Animation integrates its powerful particles engine fully animatable with Alpha Collision for more realistic particles behavior.* ToonShading: A complete tool to add shadows to your drawings from soft and smooth 3D like shadows to cartoon shadows.* A Scan Cleaner Tool: easy to use, to remove the background from your scanned sequence and to get quickly the lines from your drawings.
TVP Animation 1.0a is available for PC (Win2K/XP) and Apple's Mac (OS X 10.3 minimum) and for the new Intel-based Macintosh to an introductory price of 475 euros for the full commercial version, 250 euros for the Upgrade version (available to old TVPaint products' owners). To know if you can qualify for the upgrade pricing, please contact us at info@tvpaint.fr. The Education license is available in two versions one seat for 250 euros and five seats for 475 euros. Check out www.tvpaint.fr/tvpa_prices.php for details.
Rick DeMott
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