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SOFTIMAGE-TOONZ


Feature Highlights

  • Intuitive Interface - mimics traditional tools & process
  • Full screen/full motion/full color - TV resolution Pencil Test
  • Variable animation playback modes - realtime, multiple windows, onionskin
  • Unique automatic line density balancing capability
  • Multiplane Camera
  • Resolution Independent Output - Video, Film, HDTV
  • Image Library Tool Kit - write your own conversion programs
  • Programming ability - write your own custom effects
  • Modular Configurations
  • Works with Softimage 3D and Softimage Eddie

HARDWARE

Recommended System Requirements
  • Silicon Graphics workstation
  • 24-bit and optional 8-bit for Ink and Paint
  • IRIX 5.3
  • CPU: MIPS R3000, R4000, R4400, R4600
  • Graphics: XS24, XZ, XL, ELAN, EG
  • Cosmo Compress (optional)
  • Scanners: Fujitsu-M3096/7 Family; Ricoh-IS410, Ana Tech Eagle
  • Wacom Tablet
  • Video outputs: SGI Indy Video, networked digital disk recorders (e.g., Abekas Accom, SierraQuickframe-Networked or via SCSI connection)
  • Film output

VERSION 4.0

New Pencil Test Module
    Allows scanning and viewing of drawings quickly and easily in one easy to use module-full frame/full motion in real time with PAL or NTSC resolution (requires Cosmo Compress and Indy Video).

Enhanced Xsheet

    Now unlimited number of pegs, cels and columns. The new Multiplane Camera provides tools to let you define explicit Z values for pegs for greater depth of field in 2-D.

Flip Module

    Allows you to play back your animations in real time at TV resolution (with Cosmo Compress). You select the playback mode-full color, 8/16-bit, gray-tones, or black and white. The Onionskinmode allows you to view multiple images superimposed on one another-the current frame is shown in full ink color, while the others are in light gray.

Enhanced Ink and Paint

  • Now suitable for SGI 8-bit machines
  • Virtual Image­scan in high-resolution images (3K) and view entire image while you paint
  • Ink Line Color­define and change colors easily (will recognize line intersection)
  • Label color markups just like you always have with text tools in palette edit

Image Library Tool Kit

    Provides access to all file formats-public and pro-prietary-for the writing of conversion programs.

UDITS

    UDITS (User Defined Interactive Transformations) allows programmers to write custom effects such as ripple effects and dynamically load them at compositing time.

MODULES

Toonz provides an intuitive graphic interface for quick and easy access to the following modules

Setup

    Allows you to define program variables such as working resolution, frame rate, and other critical parameters.

BGTiler

    Joins together several (separately scanned) unpainted/painted image "tiles" to produce one big (background) image.

Input

    Lets you scan hand-drawn pencil keys and in-betweens into the computer or import files from other software packages. Images are quickly organized for assembly, filtered, and contrast-corrected. Automatic Line Balancing System automatically averages the line width and equalizes entire level.

PltEdit

    Helps to prepare the color palettes for each level or color model. among its features: setting colors interactively when the character is superimposed on a background, manipulating colors using many different tools, and creating interpolated palettes.

Inknpaint

    Color and edit scanned-in pencil keys as single images or an entire sequence. Change the black-and-White line work to any color for a hand-inked look.

Xsheet

    Edit your scene in a familiar environment. Enlarge or reduce images, rotate objects or create complex translation movements. Add dissolves, blurs, blends, fades, and other special effects using simple commands. Use the Multiplane Camera for greater depth of field in 2-D.

Batches

    controls the intermediate and final production steps in the compositing phase.

Rec

    controls the networked output device for rendering the finished animation.

File Manager

    Allows you to manage and organize the files that compose the scenes of a production.

Audio

    Enables audio input and output. Pre-cut recorded tracks can be placed into the computer's memory and broken down frame by frame, providing the necessary guide for voice and music synchronization.

Movie

    Plays back animated sequences with sound. The images can be fully painted or unpainted.

Show

    Isolates and displays compete levels. This feature is useful for verifying and approving levels before the final production is composited.

Utilities

    Allows you to run utilities such as:
    • Quantize-"color reduc-tion"-reduces the number of colors present in an original full-color image
    • Print to PostScript
    • Convert-translates images to different file formats
    • Autoclose-detects and automatically closes leaks in the lines to prevent floods


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