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The LeadingStand-Alone Animation Software Solution forStudios

Why Toon Boom Solo?

Toon Boom Solo Fact Sheet

Work in a simplified workflow

Achieve high efficiencies and costs savings

Enjoy greater creative control

Work in the platform of your choice

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Animate with power

oon Boom Solo is the all-in-one tool for start to finish animation productions, fromrawing directly on the screen, up to scanning, inking and painting, compositing,

aying out animation in 3D space, applying special effects and rendering.

oon Boom Solo offers an impressive array of creative animation tools, facilitatingomplete artistic expression throughout the animation production process,

whether it is traditional, digital or cut-out style.

oon Boom Solo's advanced features, such as morphing, inverse kinematics, gluend special effects, translate into faster completion of projects - all integrated in angle application and relying on a field-proven technology.

oon Boom Solo easily integrates into any existing production pipeline and alsorovides users with freedom and flexibility to work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

oon Boom Solo is the leading stand-alone software solution for studios to create high qualitynimations for film, video, television, games, web sites, mobile devices, training applicationsnd more. Solo offers a new level of creativity, efficiency and simplified workflow to producenimation of the highest quality.

oon Boom Solo is a powerful 2D animation software toolset for any production process, including cut-out, paperless and tradityles. This feature-rich software system provides the user with the power, flexibility and control to create animations in a simpnd integrated workflow.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. 7 Laurier East, Montreal, QC Canada H2T 1E4 (514) 278-8666 info@toonboom.com www.toonboom.com

Draw digitally or

scan

Animate using morphing, IK and glue, lip synch,

reuse library of assets, lay out animation in 3D

space and add special effects

Output

TV, HDT

Film

Intern

What is morphing? What is inverse kinematics? What is glue?elect two or three keyframes and let the

ystem generate all the in-between frames

ver the time range of your choice.

Combined with the inverse kinema

feature, the glue tool will automat

connect two body parts with a cur

line or angle shape.

Animate joints on a skeleton moving and

articulating any body part or any other jointed

objects to the position of your choice in

seconds!

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Toon Boom Animation Inc. 7 Laurier East, Montreal, QC Canada H2T 1E4 (514) 278-8666 info@toonboom.com www.toonboom.com

About Toon Boom Animation Inc.Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader of animation software solutions. Winner of the 2005 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, Toon Boom Animationcarries several leading animation solutions, including Opus, Harmony, Solo and Studio, and provides consulting services related to production workflow and productToon Boom clients range from major studios creating Hollywood blockbuster animated films to individual animators creating their first masterpieces. Market-leadingstudios using Toon Booms products include Nelvana, Klasky Csupo, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal, Mercury Filmworks, Wild Brain, King Camera,Cromosoma and Lanterna Magica, to name a few. Toon Boom Animation is committed to delivering intuitive and powerful solutions that advance the art of animation film, TV, video, the web and wireless.

Networking CapabilitiesFile ManagementScanningDigital DrawingHigh tech drawing tools(morphing, IK, glue)

Animation Libraries (re-use)

Interactive X-SheetTimelineLip SyncInk & PaintScene PlanningCompositingSpecial FXMulti-format output

Opus

Multi-userAdvancedAdvanced

Basic-

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YesBasic

-AdvancedAdvancedAdvancedAdvancedTV, HDTV,Film, Video

Harmony

Multi-userAdvancedAdvancedAdvanced

Yes

Yes

YesAdvanced

YesAdvancedAdvancedAdvancedAdvancedTV, HDTV,

Film, Video,Web

Solo

Stand-aloneBasicBasic

AdvancedYes

Yes

YesAdvanced

YesAdvancedAdvancedAdvancedAdvancedTV, HDTV,

Film, Video,Web

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Feature Comparison

Create resolution-independent animation

Use the virtual animation disk and digital exposure sheet with full control of timing and order

Hand-draw with pressure-sensitive pen and graphic tablet

Create your in-betweening using the morphing toolsSpeed up the process of animating joints in a framework using the inverse kinematics and

glue tools

Duplicate and manipulate vector-based drawings

Access a full range of digital tools: cut, copy, paste, scale, rotate, squash, stretch etc

Access a full set of tools to edit contours

Use the light table and multi-level onion skinning features

Automatically generate lip charts and save time lip syncing characters to their voice tracks

Display bitmap images and/or live-action for rotoscoping

Deform line art to change its shape

Use different texture brushes to create other line styles like pencil on paper, watercolor, etc.

Digital Drawing

Twain Support

Auto-feed or manually scan drawingsRegister peg holes automatically

Clean scanned lines automatically

Scan your drawings in black and white or grayscale

Auto-assemble your drawings for paint

Color scan pre-colored drawings and backgrounds

Auto-splice pan cels (characters and backgrounds)

Capture nuances of hand-drawn lines (thanks to true-line vectorization and line texture)

Handle complex textures such as crayon or chalk

Maintain scanning resolution based on fielding or output resolution

Scan

Paint a single drawing, several sequences, or all drawings in a level simultaneously

Paint color art, re-color line art, check for paint errorsAccess 16 million color possibilities; unlimited fill colors, line colors, transparencies per layer

Visualize line texture while you paint

nstantly update all View windows when changes are made to drawings

Re-touch vector drawingsPaint with textures and gradients

Close gaps automatically

Auto-paint all effect levels

Manage color models

Paint quickly at all output resolutions

Create an unlimited number of palettes per character

Create unlimited number of colors per palette

Paint

Display pegs and elements by hierarchy

Use sound scrubbing on a frame-by-frame basis

Set up groups of drawings and motion paths

Easily create new elements and drawings

Effortlessly create new motion paths and animated drawings

Drag and drop keyframes, elements, motion paths and element transformationsDisplay effects and their keyframes

Timeline

Emulates a traditional exposure sheet

Create, edit and save exposure sheets

Automatically build the timing in your exposure sheet with simple click and drag

Use expression columns to create values for an effect based on mathematical operations

Control the velocity values with Bezier or Ease function curves; control the values in other

columns with these functions

Copy and paste cells with drag and drop

Automatically visualize and update groups and hierarchies

XSheet

Create a library of effectsStore multiple elements with their own drawings

Create a library of animated elements and animated sequences

Store movements with their own functions and transformations

Preview your drawings in real-time

Swap drawings easily to manage media assetsEdit library content

Libraries

Position elements interactively

Create new 3D trajectories for elements and camera

Auto-calculate elements perspective in relation to camera position

Auto-calculate different focuses on various elements

Create complex movements with a hierarchy of elements and camerasDraw directly in the Frame View

Preview elements and camera moves in real-time

View multi-plane perspective in real-time

Preview line texture, gradients, textures, tones, highlights and cutters

Create a peg or function automatically

Click and drag positioning of elements and cameras

Work simultaneously with multiple aspect ratios

Increase bitmap preview resolution

Pan and Scan in real-time using multiple aspect ratios

Rotate, scale, translate and skew multiple elements at the same time

ScenePlanning

Change output resolution without rescanning or repainting

Employ complete effects module including directional blurs, film grain, gradien

textures, glows, radial blurs, shadows and fades, with the possibility of anim

the effects over time

Use the external node to perform additional effects with external programs

Control line thickness when zooming in

Create mattes directly in the Frame View

Use the Effects network navigator that helps to manage large networks

Visualize effects in Effects network thumbnails

Scale vector artwork infinitely without pixilationUse any output resolution and aspect ratio

Easily pan and zoom in the Network Effects View window

Automatically connect Network modules, as well as reorder network cablesIntuitively drag and drop network modules

Drag and drop to create Group modules

Visualize data in tree views for groups, moves and effects

Effects & Compositing

Render to any resolution and aspect ratio such as TV, NTSC, PAL, HDTV, film

2K, 4K) and more

Optionally disable field rendering for pegs

Command line render

Output to QuickTime; import and export Flash renderings

Render

Play back animation with sound

Use integrated playback to preview SFX

Play back as a f loating window or a stand-alone application

View frame sequences at full D1 resolution

Play back up to 60 fps

Playback

- 800 MHz Intel Pentium 3 (Minimum) or 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (RecommenPower Macintosh G4 (Minimum with 1.2 GHz processor) or G5 (Recommended)

- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2 and XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Linux Fedora- 512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)- 90 MB of available hard disk space for the software, 8 GB of available hard disk space fo- Windows and Linux: nVidia video card fully supporting OpenGL with 32 MB of RAM / Ma

nVidia video card with 128 MB of RAM- Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution and 24-bit color depth- TWAIN scanner (Optional)- Wacom tablet (Optional)

Hardware Requirements