Siggraph

Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced the pre-launch of Toon Boom Studio V3.5. Toon Boom Studio V3.5 enables users to animate with more power and ease, bringing significant improvements to animation techniques, special effects creation and color palette management. In addition, V3.5 offers a more user-friendly interface with a welcome screen and help wizards, as well as timeline improvements.

Highlights of this latest release include:

• Animated elements to quickly animate drawings




• Real-time Drop Shadow effect to create rich-looking animation




• Improved tools such as Select Scene Operator, Contour Editor, Color Transform as well as Texture and Gradient Mapping to facilitate the animation process




• Enhanced interoperability with other software with PDF export




• Simplified User Interface to work more efficiently

Pricing and availability

Toon Boom Studio V3.5 is available at the pre-launch special of $299.99 US (Promo Code:TBS350823). Upon customer release, the V3.5 upgrade will cost $ 99.99 USD for V3 and V2.5 customers. The V3.5 customer release is scheduled for September 2006. As of August 1st, 2006, all purchases will receive a Toon Boom Studio V3 license key and a V3.5 license key upon customer release.

For additional information, visit Toon Boom at www.toonboom.com.