Anime Studio Debut 6

From: Smith Micro Software Inc.

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

64 reviews
Sales Rank: 66

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5

MPN: ASO60HBX2
Model: ASO60HBX2
UPC: 717103891694
EAN: 0717103891694
ASIN: B002ABMVD6

Release Date: June 9, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Anime Studio Debut 6 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts
•	Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint and fill tools; or easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast
•	Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation
•	Inverse Kinematics moves your character naturally between keyframes for smooth animations
•	Export your creations to the most popular web and video formats supported by FaceBook and MySpace, or upload your animation directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio

Complete Animation for Digital Artists

Create and Import Content
Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint and fill tools. Easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast!

Bone Rigging Saves Time
Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation.

Advanced Timeline Control
Inverse Kinematics moves your character naturally between keyframes for smooth animations. Add sound, special effects, and preview in real time with multiple layers to edit your animation.

Share Everywhere
Export your creations to the most popular web and video formats supported by FaceBook and MySpace, or upload your animation directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio.

Anime Studio Debut Gets You Started Right Away

Import and animate your own video and artwork. Click to enlarge.

Simple interface makes animation easy. Click to enlarge.

Customize your workspace to your liking. Click to enlarge.

Free Characters
Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vector-based characters you can use for your own animations.

Free Tutorials
Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.

Import Your Art
Import your own illustrations or create unique characters for your cartoons. Animate anything within the reach of your imagination.

Bring Photos to Life
Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.

Features

New--User interface makes animating your creative vision easier than ever
New--Anime Studio's Sequencer gives you the ability to easily combine Video and audio, with animation
New--Upload your creations directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio
New--Improved drawing tools make creating original artwork a snap
New--Quickly make characters talk with built in Lip-Synching
Includes lots of ready-to-use content such as characters, actions words and props
Import Quicktime or AVI video
Import layered Photoshop documents
Pen tablet support lets you draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper
Incorporate audio files such as WAV or AIFF
Built-in tutorials and sample files get you up and running quickly
Special effects like motion blur and shadows
Export SWF, AVI, MOV, plus image sequences for the web, short or full length films
Render up to 720x720 resolution
Track, zoom, roll, pan, and tilt the camera

Customer Reviews:

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Not Bad, Not Great November 19, 2009
Christopher Deweese (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Anime Studio 6 is a good introduction to the world of computer animation. Luckily, there are plenty of tutorials within the application, but there are also lots of online tutorials. I never felt totally alone when trying to learn. That being said, it still takes a while to learn if you've never done this before. It helps to know something about photoshop and illustrator, but it's not required. It's fairly inexpensive and a good way to get your feet wet.

5 out of 5 stars

powerful program, great dept, works well with windows 7 November 18, 2009
M. Bauer (Colorado)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Anime Studio Debut is very powerful program and quite easy to navigate. There will be a learning curve if you're a beginner or have not used image/animation software before. Hads loads of options and flexibility, and is sod a a very reasonable price for all that you get. Works great on Vista and even better on Windows 7, both a 32 bit Sony Laptop and a 64 bit Dell Studio desktop. Highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars

Amazingly advanced November 16, 2009
baylor (Minneapolis, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

We're making a 2D video game and were having problems with the art - drawing one person isn't bad but drawing them in 40 poses takes forever. Someone suggested this program - draw the image (in vector format rather than our usual Photoshop), add bones, move the limbs where we want them and export the image.

That would be nice if it worked. For the price, i didn't expect much. i figured it would be a simple drawing or animation program. i was wrong. It's not simple - i learned (the very expensive, pro) Adobe Premiere and After Effects faster than i learned this, and there's still things we haven't figured out (like how to texture the images). Then again, i think this interface is maybe easier than Flash, which has a pretty steep learning curve too.

The program does things i've never seen in a tool before (adding a skeletal structure to 2D images and using inverse kinematics and rigid body transformations to position the bones is awesome) and has been a life-saver for our company. The only thing that could possibly be better is if we could mount objects to the skeleton and have those deform the same way. Who knows, maybe we can - there's a lot we don't know about this program.

i can't say anything about creating animations because that's not what we used it for. The people here love playing with this. The only concern i have is that we've now gotten the pro version to and i don't remember whether features we rely on (namely batch export to PNG) is a Pro-only feature. The company's Web site has a pretty comprehensive list of the differences between standard and pro.

4 out of 5 stars

Initial Review November 15, 2009
Chris Carter (Johannesburg, MI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am drawn to all graphics programs if for no other reason than to see how they work and what they can do. This application appears to be a lot of fun to play with, and that is about all I had in mind to start with. I have not really given it much time to date but winter is moving in and there will be more time to play.

3 out of 5 stars

An arduous learning curve, it's suitable only for the highly motivated November 13, 2009
William W. Davis (Boca Raton, FL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

QUICK SUMMARY: A richly-featured, low-cost program is a great introduction into animation, but the program doesn't do much to help new users learn the craft of 2-D animation.

I selected Anime Studio Debut mostly for my kids' sake (teen and pre-teen). Since earlier this year, they've all enjoyed using a digital camera and Windows Movie Maker to create movies, especially Lego-based movies using Lego-built characters, vehicles and movie sets. Anime Studio seemed like something they'd enjoy using. Okay, and I'll admit I was intrigued, too.

In reality, I think the program offers a lot of value for the money, but the implementation for a "Debut" program -- one where no prior knowledge of animation is required or expected -- left a lot to be desired. Although the makers offer a very thorough tutorial to help new users explore the program, I found it to be tiresome switching back-and-forth between the PDF-based, 41-page tutorial document and the actual program. I prefer the more elegant way of learning a new program where the program itself uses wizards to hand-hold me through the learning process. For instance, when I learned Sony Vegas Movie Studio earlier this year, its wizards got me using a program that is certainly no less complicated than Anime Studio, and perhaps is more so. Whereas I continue to enjoy learning how to use Vegas, my enthusiasm for Anime Studio waned quickly.

My older, pre-teen daughter and I were both frustrated at the lack of context-sensitive help or menus in Anime Studio. I like programs that let me right-click anywhere I happen to be, and a context-sensitive menu pops up with appropriate suggestions for what I'm doing at that moment.

I will credit Anime Studio Debut as being a "fun" program. My pre-teen daughter especially has enjoyed manipulating the template characters that come with this program, giving herself and her siblings a lot to laugh at. My daughter hasn't tried using the Users' Guide to learn the program -- her learning so far has been by trial-and-error. If the authors of this program could see my daughter interacting with their program, they could see why a PDF Users' Guide tutorial isn't what's needed for this "Debut" program.

I am concerned that Anime Studio crashed a LOT while we've used the program on an otherwise stable Vista laptop computer. If you install this program, I suggest monitoring the Reliability Monitor (in Vista and Windows 7) to see how reliable your computer currently is, and again how reliable it is after you've installed and begun using Anime Studio Debut. (To find the Reliability Monitor, click the Start button, then type "Reliability" in the Start Search textbox to find the monitor).

SUMMARY: I think Anime Studio Debut offers a lot of value for the money. I've spent nearly as much money on stupid kids' games that weren't nearly so interesting to play with. The functionality of this program is pretty deep. Where the program comes up short is not on the functionality it has, but in how new users must go about learning how to use those functions. For a "Debut" program, there is a lot that can be done to make learning Anime Studio Debut easier to do.

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