Toonz Harlequin 6.2

Product Description – 75 words

Toonz Harlequin is a 2D animation software for traditional and paperless animation productions, providing state-of-the-art tools for endless creative possibilities and allowing animators to follow their personal approach to computer-assisted animation fast-forwarding tedious and time-consuming steps.

Available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, running on 64-bit processors as well with dramatically improved software performance, and for Mac OS X running on Intel processors, with support for cross-platform projects.

Product Description – 150 words

For the traditional workflow, it is possible to scan paper drawings, to clean them up, and to do a full ink & paint process.

For the paperless workflow, it is possible to draw and define character models with skeleton, and store them in the production library for endless reuse.

In both cases scenes can be composited in the xsheet by animating drawings, pegbars and camera to create complex shots; special FX, including a particles engine, can be added; then frames can be rendered out in the required format and resolution.

Product Description – 300 words

For the traditional workflow based on paper drawings, it is possible to use Toonz Harlequin to scan drawings, to clean them up to set a proper registration, and to do a full ink & paint process with color models and palette colors that can be edited at any time, updating automatically all the level drawings.

For the paperless workflow, it is possible to draw in a digital light table environment and define character models with skeleton, that can be stored in and retrieved from a production library for endless reuse.

In both cases scenes can be composited by moving and animating animation levels and character models over background elements according to the xsheet; pegbars and camera can be moved to create more complex shots, also in a 3D environment with an automatic multiplane effect; special FX, chosen among a very wide set including a particles engine, can be added; then sequences of frames and clips can be rendered out in the format and resolution required by the production, and a render farm is available to distribute the rendering job on the whole network.

Production material can be easily stored and retrieved for a quick reuse, from one studio to another as well, and version control system is integrated both to store the database on a central repository while editing your local working copy, and to track the file history and retrieve previous revisions for every file.