Creates animations with custom meshes that can bend, shape and twist. The Realistic Motion Blur feature aids in controlling the number of frames and blend. Smart Bones is another feature that reduces or entirely removes distortion around your character's joints.
Anime Studio Pro is a product with a long history and a reputation to accompany it. It is a 2D vector based animation program created over a decade ago which since then has gone through a lot of changes and upgrades. Current version includes all the right features, such as physics emulation, 3D model support and creation, a Character Wizard for design editing and many more.
One of the most welcomed aspects of this program is that it is compatible with Photoshop, having a layered import process. There's also a Smart Bone system which shortens the animation creation process, reducing both time and frustration. Editable Motion Graphs make the resulting animation smoother and more precise. I should also mention that the earlier versions of Anime Studio Pro were the first to include support for Poser and Wacom tablets.
The most appealing aspect of this suite is that it can actually let people make animation that looks professional. Not every tool lets you actually be good at what you do, but Anime Studio Pro has all the right things. The interface, which is being updated and perfected with each new version, makes it easy to do a good job and access even the most advanced and special processes that make great animation.
Anime Studio Pro is not cheap and, despite the great job the developers do on the interface, can be quite difficult to master properly, but if you want to create animation, this is the right tool.
v9.1.0.6434 [Oct 24, 2012]
- Rendered RLE AVI now imports properly into AS.
- Frame rate of export movie is now the same as the project settings.
- Audio new exports correctly with QuickTime movie files under Mac OS X 10.7.
- Fixed a problem where deleting a style could sometimes lead to a crash.
- Fixed a problem where the application would sometimes lock up when canceling a single frame render.
- Fixed a problem where dragging keyframes past each other could result in a crash.
- Fixed a problem where the timeline would not always update when the selected point(s) changed.
- Fixed issue related to specifying a user content location on first launch.
- In a duplicate mouth group, when you move within layers, and select a new audio file and click OK is now working properly.
- Fixed a problem where the application would sometimes create two main windows on Mac OS, soon after resulting in a crash.
- Revamped script management.
- Up to 500 head morphs now work on imported Poser figure.
- Fixed a problem with bezier handles when dragging keyframes past one another in the timeline.
- Fixed a problem where alt-dragging hold durations for some keyframes would only move in 2 frame increments, making it impossible to adjust the hold precisely (related to bug fix 24934).
- Fixed a problem where creating new styles or deleting styles was not undoable.
- Fixed a display issue when deleting a bone with the Bone Strength tool active.
- Improved edges for layer outline effect.
- Fixed a problem where the timeline would not always update when the selected point(s) changed.
- Fixed problems with the Ogre mouth in the character wizard.
- Stroke Round Caps available when "Noisy Outlines" is Active.
- Fixed some problems with editing camera keyframes when the current layer has a timing offset.
- Saved Styles may not be applied from the Insert Text dialog.
- Point transform tools have explicit selected channels update.
- Clicking a selected keyframe while holding the shift key no longer deselects that keyframe in the timeline.
- Set noisy as your default interpolation and opening an existing file no longer results in extraneous keyframes at frame 0.
- Fixed import/export of audio layers in library.
- Mac version of the tool list text file now has line breaks.
- Fixed a problem with erratic scrolling when using two-finger swipe on Mac track pads.
- When bringing up the Layer Settings dialog, the layer name field is focused and selected for immediate editing.
- Alt+Right mouse clicking now works with text layers in addition to vector layers.
- You can now delete folders properly from the Favorites in the library on Windows.
- Fixed some problems previewing layer masking with text layers.
- Fixed some problems with editing camera keyframes when the current layer has a timing offset.
- When dragging in an audio file there is now an icon in editing view. Previously, audio layers weren't drawing their icons in OpenGL mode. They do now.
- Down arrow key selection is now working properly.
- Can now delete bones after deleting all keys (window focus issue fixed).
- Deleting frame 0 curvature keys no longer causes shapes to become "invincible."
- Smart bone actions now work on bound layers.
- Green Y axis layer translation line is no longer hard to see against gray timeline.
- Bezier handles now correct for when keyframes move relative to their neighbors.
- When scaling keyframes, the selection would get lost on mouse up.
- Fixed a problem with moving points when multiple keyframes are selected and the points are under the influence of bones.
- Updated the descriptive text for the Transform Layer tool.
- Undo Reset All Layers Channels no longer leaves keyframes.
- Fixed a problem where some combinations of layer effects could lead to ugly halos and color fringing.
- Adjusted sizing behavior of blend morphs dialog.
- Fixed a problem where the window size was not remembered on Mac OS.
- Scrolling view container now erases background properly.
- Fixed a problem with exporting 3D layers as OBJ or POV files.
- The Layer Selector tool now does nothing if the picked layer is already selected.
- Single line Mac text fields no longer line wrap, but scroll horizontally.
- When loading a text layer, we replace DOS line endings with UNIX to prevent issues in the app.
- Fixed a problem where popup dialogs that lock themselves open don't fully close when the users’ clicks "Close."
- Updated timeline bone channel icons to be the same as the respective tools.
- Dialog for importing layers now supports checkbox selection
- The Text tool is now available even when a vector layer is not currently selected.
- Updated menu and dialog text to make content folder creation/selection clearer to users.
- The Layer Settings dialog restores the current tab selection when possible after a layer change.
- Hiding a layer comp no longer hides group layers in the comp to avoid conflicting with visibility of other layer comps.
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