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TVPaint Animation is the best solution for the creation of 2D bitmap animation... It is the favorite tool of professionals who want the best of digital animation: an environment consisting of the traditional animation workflow combined with all the advantages of the digital world. Because artists can now paint, animate and effect in one single application, the first signif icant result is that you will increase your productivity like never before.

Bton by Ariel Belinco and Michael Faust

And you will paint using a drawing engine that allows you to create any type of content. Your style wont be limited like it is when using a vector application; youre free to bring to life any kind of graphic content ! Your style first ! Whether its blue-lined sketches, scanned or imported graphics or original art made using a graphic tablet, everything can be animated using TVPaint Animation Professional. A tool to create your art Because its bitmap based, TVPaint Animation wont impose any type of drawing on the artist : its the contrary ! Your style is free to go in any direction, and its more fun like that, isnt it? Digital and traditional animation? Yes, with TVPaint Animation, were offering a tool that is able to satisfy the traditional animator as well as the hobbyist or the animator student who all have different needs, but the very same love for animating.
Illustration by Mark Chong

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 The battle of Cable Street by Yoav Segal

Additional Video Effects Include the RotoTracking FX for complex rotoscoping FXs, Volumetric lights, 6 Keying FXs to remove Green/Blue screens for easy integration, Optical Flow, Healing (Clone tool) tracker, and 7 Transition FXs.
L'pe et le Pinceau by Jean-Jacques Chen

Share custom contents with the TVPaint Community Using a system of CustomPanel, every user can store, export and share his custom tools and scripts. Each user can also share papers and plugins, thanks to the TVPaint SDK which allows the user to develop new functionalities for the TVPaint applications. Add sound to your projects
TVPaint Animation also allows the user to import sound and to add it directly to his project. Supported formats are WAV and MP3.
Illustration by Vincent Bedu

Wacom tablets support Because Wacom tablets offer the widest possibilities with a stylus, TVPaint products fully support the Wacom tablets. The Size, Opacity, and Angle of your tools can be connected to the Pressure, Direction, Orientation, Speed, Altitude or even to the Rotation with an Art Maker pen. Export and share The application provides many possibilities to export your project, like, for example, a sequence of single pictures or a video l e. You can also export your project into a sequence of PSD files if you want to work in a different application later.
Raymond Gourrier

llustration by David T. Nethery

As you can read, TVPaint Animation is an adaptable software. Thanks to the versatility of the TVPaint Animation technology, you will be free to create complete 2D animation movies within TVPaint Animation, as well as still illustrations and paintings, without investing in many other expensive software applications and tools. TVPaint Animation is an all-in-one software package for the artist: a drawing and painting software, an animation software, a storyboard/animatic software , a special effects software... It contains an almost unlimited variety of canvas/paper textures, rendering effects, painting styles, brushes, pencils, a light table, a camera (including multi-plane camera) ... And so much more ! With TVPaint Animation you will be able to create fantastic individual and collaborative animated film projects.

Your imagination will be the only limit.

Illustration by Hiroyuki Nishimura

Minimal configuration : Widows : Windows XP and higher, Pentium IV ou Athlon XP 2Ghz Mac : Tiger 10.5.6 and higher, G5 (comptible with Intel processor) Linux : Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, Mandriva Pentium IV ou Athlon XP 2Ghz 1024 MB RAM 10 GB of free hard drive

More informations on www.tvpaint.com