What is Toonz ?
Inknpaint and compositing system Designed for traditional cel animators, for creation of film, video and interactive media Designed to emulate the traditional animation process Familiar and straightforward user interface that makes the user comfortable from the very beginning
What is Toonz ?
Original drawing style of the animator preserved Provides tools to accelerate and improve time-consuming tasks Allows to develop projects unachievable or simply too expensive using traditional means Delivers superb final quality
Why Toonz ?
More than an ink ‘n’ paint package, it is a complete production system Production proven in motion picture projects Therefore working on video or multimedia will be very FAST ! Digital Video sole focus Support of Avid, Softimage Means world-wide distribution and rigorous quality assurance
Why Toonz ?
More than 2200 licenses installed world-wide Completely re-engineered for the NT porting Ready for rapid future developments to meet the industry's needs Rapid development is not a will, is a solid fact.
Key Accounts
Production proven on film
Amblimation/Universal Picture
“Balto” was the first ever film done start-to-end with Toonz “Anastasia” has already become the most successful non-Disney animation movie of the story and is the first Cinemascope format since decades. Toonz complements the superb animations of Don Bluth.
Fox Animation
Munich Animation
“Fearless Four” their last theatrical motion picture project has been released by WB on Oct. 2nd,1997; Pavarotti among the voices.
"Spirited Away", Golden Bear Award winner at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2002, with 15,8 millions $ only in the first weekend, has far surpassed previous successes like "Princess Mononoke". The complex sequence of the sea storm in Asterix in America was completely done with Toonz.
Studio Ghibli
Gerard Hahn Filmproduction
Key Accounts
Production proven on video
MTV
“Beavis and Butthead”. Many important series: the last was Johnny Quest for Hanna & Barbera. Among their products: “Footman” and “Kleo the Misfit Unicorn”. China's largest nationwide television network: CCTV has four nationwide channels reaching an audience of 450 million throughout China. To be mentioned, among others, “The Maxx”. Among their works “Jonny Quest” and “Nanook”.
Varga Studios
GSA - Digitoon Imaging
China Central Television
Rough Draft Studio
Toons Factory
Key Accounts
Production proven on Multimedia
Psygnosys
Many popular interactive titles like “Discworld II” : character animations done with Toonz Among their titles: “Hansel & Gretel”, “Rumpelstiltskin’s Labyrinth” and many others. Their first Toonz title was “Beavis and Butthead”. Uses Toonz for character animation in their interactive titles.
Terraglyph Interactive
MTV - Viacom New Media
Time Warner Interactive
Tools which help the Toonz user
New Toonz Web site: http://www.toonz.com
Users have a dedicated area gives you free upgrades hot-line support is handled by the developers of the product covers two shifts tool to spread the Toonz knowledge among new users
Support:
Educational Program
Training
available at your premises charged by the group
Toonz Configurations
Toonz Studio
All features are enabled All features are enabled, but the output resolution is locked to TV resolution (PAL, NTSC) The I&P package has many more features enabled. All modules except xsheet, mattedit, ImageLibrary D-Kit and the Flash composer A lighter and less expensive version of I&P.This version features the same capabilities of the I&P package, but without the Scan and Cleanup modules
Toonz Studio TV
Toonz Ink&Paint
Toonz Ink&Paint Lite
Toonz Camera, Render & Color Model
All modules except inknpaint and vectorization tool in I&P
Toonz Configurations
Toonz Render Only
Composer and many other modules which are common to each License Type; among them: bgtiler, batches, rec, filemanager, toonzaudio, flip and the utilities Starting from 4.5, you can purchase inexpensive Scan&Cleanup seats. Agressively priced version, only available for Universities and Colleges for educational purposes. All the features are enabled.
Toonz Scan & Cleanup
Toonz Edu
System requirements
Windows NT/2000/XP platforms
Pentium based PC with 200 MHz CPU and 96 MB for video, 128 MB for film Graphics Cards: 65536 color or higher graphics board display supported all of them that support 6.x operating system, latest models included Toonz runs on any graphics on Irix versions Workstation with Intel Pentium II or higher processor Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3 128 MB RAM minimum 65536 color graphics board display supported
SGI platforms
Linux platforms
System requirements
Input/Output
New scanners directly supported by Toonz 4.6.
Epson color scanners*
A3 format Expression 1640XL aka ES-8500 GT-12000 aka ES-8000 aka Expression 836XL GT-30000 aka ES-9000H A4 format Expression 1600 aka ES-2000 Perfection 1650 GT-6500 aka ES-600C GT-7600 aka Perfection 1200 GT-8000 aka ES-800C GT-8700 aka Perfection 1640SU GT-9600 aka Expression 800
Expression 1680 Perfection 2450 GT-7000 aka Perfection 630 GT-7700 aka Perfection 1240U GT-8500 aka ES-1000C GT-9000 aka ES-1200C GT-10000+ aka ES-6000H
Ricoh color scanners**
IS 330DC (A3)
*Epson scanners at the moment are not directly supported under Windows 2000 due to an OS bug. **Custom DPI values not supported
Any other scanner supported via TWAIN drivers
System requirements
Input
IS IS
- B&W:
suited to mass volume / A3 / ADF
Ricoh®
410, IS 420 from Toonz 4.1 on 410, IS 420, IS 430 and Aficio IS 01 from Toonz 4.2 on
IS
410, IS 420, IS 430, IS 450 and Aficio IS 01 from Toonz 4.3 on
Bell+Howell;
4000F,
Ricoh® rebranded
5000F, 6000F, 500FB from Toonz 4.2 on
Fujitsu®
M3096
suited to mass volume / A3 / ADF
Family from Toonz 4.1 on
M3096/7/9
Families from Toonz 4.2 on
Input
HP
- Color:
Scanpartner 300C, 600C;
4C, HP 6100C, HP 6250C: also B&W scanning;
Fujitsu
Avision AV A3, AV A3
Sharp
PLUS;
JX610 - A3
System requirements
Output
SierraQuickframe
DDR, HP® 4:2:2 Video Disk Recorder via SCSI
connection
Networked
Digital Disk Recorder via Ethernet (e.g. Abekas, Accom, etc.) Toonz also supports SGI Indy video. Film devices (such as MGI Solitaire®) are not directly supported, but you can use these devices with third-party softwares.
Graphics
tablets
Most of the graphics tablets are connected to the parallel port, so as soon as they are recognized by the operating system, they are also recognized, that's to say supported, by Toonz.
Highlights of the new Toonz 4.6
Windows XP platform supported. Linux 7.2 and 7.3 platform supported. New scanners supported in native mode. Levels and images retain ink line color when exported in Macromedia Flash format. Multiple selection available for Pins and Hooks for an easier management of textures and reference points. Keyboard arrows shortcuts for calibrating the Pins and Hooks position. Vectorization on the fly of Toonz levels when exporting to Flash from Xsheet. Option to export to Flash the Xsheet columns as separate layers. Avi format output supported both from the Preview window and in the final rendering.
Highlights of the new Toonz 4.6
PNG
format supported as input and output. New FXs added: Calligraphic, ArtContour, Tile, Blend TZ and Blend RGB. Calligraphic FX to control the line thickness of Toonz images ArtContour FX to apply a pattern to the line of Toonz images for achieving hair or fur-like effect.
Tile
FX to tile an image and create a pattern that will always fill the camera shot.
Blend The
FX to create smooth shading of colored areas of both Toonz and full-color images. soundtrack can be used to drive channel values, e.g. to move the camera to the rhythm of the music.
Option
available to create aliasing along the edge of images when rendering in Multimedia mode.
Automatic
clapboard with Production, Scene and Animator information when rendering an xsheet.
Highlights of the new Scintillae 1.1
Particles’color can be animated Particles can be now loaded from user's selected directory Crowds, bird flocks and complex random animation is now much easier Trail feature included in Particle Impressionist: canvas folder added Impressionist: brushes can be loaded from any directory Brushes Fx added: you can now animate your brushes Scripting capability added
Highlights of the new LineTest 3.0
New composer implemented with dramatic improvement of the rendering speed. Smart preview behavior: if some editing is performed in the exposure sheet, only the frames affected by this editing will need to be recomputed. Play/Pause buttons in the preview window update/freeze the rendering of the scene. The video camera resolution can automatically fit the camera set for the scene, for an easier definition of the shot. Blind Overwrite mode to replace previously grabbed images. Configurations, such as preview and grab settings, and interface layout are stored and reused in the following sessions. Soundtrack is saved along with QuickTime and Avi movie. Framerate ranges from -50 to 50 fps, and is retained when a QuickTime or Avi movie is saved. Print xsheet feature to directly print on paper the exposure sheet contents.
Toonz plug-in for Softimage|XSI
The plug-in reads the movements of the camera, objects and changes of the camera "field of view" in the 3D environment; then it computes the projections in the 2D Toonz environment. The output of this plug-in is a .xsh file for the Xsheet module of Toonz. This file contains all the information to move 2D levels on the 3D objects and background as if they are attached to the animated 3D environment.