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Studios around the world are now using TVPaint to craft their latest features.

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The creators of the Finnish cross-media brand "Gigglebug" share their unconventional app-to-broadcast journey.

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Shiyoon Kim, who designs memorable characters for Disney films like "Zootopia" and "Big Hero 6," introduces a personal character of his own, Nelbert the Introvert.

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TVPaint is celebrating 25 years with exciting new projects, and the best is yet to come!

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A unique look at how different animators planned their scenes and animated the characters in the Oscar-nominated film "Song of the Sea."

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It's a perfect set-up for a buddy comedy adventure, with deep but accessible roots.

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Oslo's trailer park home falls into a sinkhole, and he must choose between a life of warm simplicity and rigid luxury.

Hand-drawn animation like you've never seen before.

A small team of Cape Town-based artists are set to pitch their feature film at Annecy.

Animators have more options for hand-drawn software than ever before, a fact that is reflected daily in the projects we feature on the site. For example, the short Junkyard was produced with TVPaint, the TV series Sarah and Duck was made with CelAction2D, and Disney’s new Mickey Mouse shorts are animated in ToonBoom Harmony. Of course, there’s the ubiquitous Adobe Flash which is still the most widely used 2D animation tool, though its influence has been waning in recent years.

Part of the reason that Flash has been losing marketshare in the U.S. and Canada is due to ToonBoom’s Animate line of software, which is considered by many to be an affordable alternative with better workflow and a superior set of tools for vector-based 2D animation. The company recently announced the pre-launch of Animate 3 and Animate Pro 3, which adds some much desired features like the ability to taper pencil vector lines, draw with textures and output in 64-bit high-resolution. Many of these features were previously available only in ToonBoom’s much higher priced Harmony software.

Here are some of the new features announced by ToonBoom:

Toon Boom Animate 3 highlights:

• True Pencil: Animate 3 gives you the ability to draw with True Pencil, a pencil line with variable thickness that supports pressure sensitivity. Draw clean lines with the pencil and have the ability to modify the lines easily. You can apply the style across hundreds of drawings. Incorporate texture on your lines for cool effects.

Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 highlights:

• Bone Deform: Animate Pro 3 now comes with Bone-style Deform! Bring your cut-out characters to the next level by adding deformers to bend drawings around bones and articulations. Apply deform to vector drawings, textures, or imported bitmaps.

Both products are now supercharged on a 64-bit core. This gives you the freedom to use more of the computer’s resources, and output high-resolution files for a professional-quality production. In addition, they both support standard two-finger Touch Gestures for zooming, rotating, and scaling of the canvas, when using a tablet. Finally, they both benefit from interface enhancements designed to simplify workflow and streamline the animation process.

Pricing and Availability: During this time-limited pre-launch period, you can buy Toon Boom Animate 3 for $599 US and Toon Boom Animate Pro 3 for $999 US – a saving of $100 US. Customers will receive a version 2 license which will be replaced by version 3 upon release. Customers owning previous versions of Animate and Animate Pro may upgrade on release day only.

To learn more and pre-order the software, visit ToonBoom’s website.

The trailer for Seventeen director Hisko Hulsing’s new short Junkyard excites the senses with solid character animation, rich environments, and a cinematic quality. Can’t wait to see the whole thing.

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Aimee de Jongh’s One Past Two is about as depressing as student films get. The filmmaker effectively pairs unpredictable violence with the mundanity of everyday life in a way that makes the events even more shocking. Animated in TVPaint, the short was finished this year at the Willem de Kooning Academy in The Netherlands.

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Bold colors and playful visual rhythms merge in Anton Setola’s Jazzed, a film animated in TVPaint. Finished in 2008, Jazzed had a long festival run and was posted on-line yesterday by the filmmaker.

(Thanks, Justin)

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