Animo 6.0 adds fifty "most-wanted" features
03/01/04 10:32
Animo 6.0 adds fifty "most-wanted" features
1st March, 2004
Cambridge Animation Systems announces version 6.0 of its Animo software for Windows and Mac OS X, including fifty new features requested by Animo users worldwide. Following the release of Animo 5.0 in 2003, Cambridge Animation Systems have concentrated on responding to customer feedback by adding new functionality to increase the power and usability of Animo in many areas, with the aim of enhancing the experience for Animo users at all stages in the production pipeline, from system configuration, through scanning, processing and painting, to compositing and output. The Best Animo Ever "For Animo 6.0 we decided to focus all our efforts towards answering user requests, and I am really pleased with the results. Our development team has put a lot of effort into this release and I believe it will give our users the best Animo ever," said Phil Barrett, CTO of Cambridge Animation Systems. "Animo has always offered a great user experience, and version 6.0 makes it even better than before," agrees Cormac Slevin, Cambridge’s Product Support Manager. "It's faster, more powerful, and includes many really useful new features which are based on requests from our customers." Feature Highlights Some of the exciting new features in Animo 6.0 are: * Layered Adobe Photoshop PSD and TIFF file support, allowing each layer of a background or overlay image to be separately filtered, transformed and composited alongside other Animo elements * Layered output, allowing Animo scenes to be output in separated layers to sets of image files, layered PSD files, or layered QuickTime movies for greater flexibility in post-production tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects * An extensive context menu system which gives immediate access to timing, keys, columns and nodes from within the Scene Graph and XSheet * Image sequence doping tools, including keyboard doping and a new Artwork Inspector for drag-and-drop doping, allowing integration of third-party sources of animated artwork * A Movie node allowing QuickTime or AVI movies to be composited within an Animo scene, plus a Layered Movie node to import layered QuickTime movies * Automatic focal plane blurring in the Multiplane Camera allows simulated pull-focus effects * Access to image editing during compositing, in third-party applications such as Adobe Photoshop * Support for automatic inking in colour models and for automatic inking with blends, saving time when working with coloured-line drawings * Reversed drawings, to allow tone areas drawn on the back of drawings to be scanned and automatically aligned with their drawing * One-click configuration of license and batch system servers and use of Apple’s Rendezvous technology make it faster than ever to get an Animo network up and running Animo 6.0 entered the final stages of development and testing in February 2004 and is scheduled for release in Spring 2004. Bundle Bonus Animo 6.0 also extends the power of Animo Professional, the standard and most popular Animo package, by adding some features previously only available in the optional SFX module, such as the Motion Blur node. About Animo Animo, developed and marketed by Cambridge Animation Systems (www.cambridgeanimation.com), is a high-end cartoon production suite, with an installed base of more than 3,000 seats in nearly 60 countries, offering excellent opportunities to studios throughout the world to work with international partners. Animo software is used for feature films, television series, commercials, games and multimedia development by leading studios worldwide, including Nelvana, Production IG, Toonz India, Spider Eye, Yoram Gross, Dicell, UTV Toons, Telemagination, PASI, Colorland and Vietnam Film Company.
1st March, 2004
Cambridge Animation Systems announces version 6.0 of its Animo software for Windows and Mac OS X, including fifty new features requested by Animo users worldwide. Following the release of Animo 5.0 in 2003, Cambridge Animation Systems have concentrated on responding to customer feedback by adding new functionality to increase the power and usability of Animo in many areas, with the aim of enhancing the experience for Animo users at all stages in the production pipeline, from system configuration, through scanning, processing and painting, to compositing and output. The Best Animo Ever "For Animo 6.0 we decided to focus all our efforts towards answering user requests, and I am really pleased with the results. Our development team has put a lot of effort into this release and I believe it will give our users the best Animo ever," said Phil Barrett, CTO of Cambridge Animation Systems. "Animo has always offered a great user experience, and version 6.0 makes it even better than before," agrees Cormac Slevin, Cambridge’s Product Support Manager. "It's faster, more powerful, and includes many really useful new features which are based on requests from our customers." Feature Highlights Some of the exciting new features in Animo 6.0 are: * Layered Adobe Photoshop PSD and TIFF file support, allowing each layer of a background or overlay image to be separately filtered, transformed and composited alongside other Animo elements * Layered output, allowing Animo scenes to be output in separated layers to sets of image files, layered PSD files, or layered QuickTime movies for greater flexibility in post-production tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects * An extensive context menu system which gives immediate access to timing, keys, columns and nodes from within the Scene Graph and XSheet * Image sequence doping tools, including keyboard doping and a new Artwork Inspector for drag-and-drop doping, allowing integration of third-party sources of animated artwork * A Movie node allowing QuickTime or AVI movies to be composited within an Animo scene, plus a Layered Movie node to import layered QuickTime movies * Automatic focal plane blurring in the Multiplane Camera allows simulated pull-focus effects * Access to image editing during compositing, in third-party applications such as Adobe Photoshop * Support for automatic inking in colour models and for automatic inking with blends, saving time when working with coloured-line drawings * Reversed drawings, to allow tone areas drawn on the back of drawings to be scanned and automatically aligned with their drawing * One-click configuration of license and batch system servers and use of Apple’s Rendezvous technology make it faster than ever to get an Animo network up and running Animo 6.0 entered the final stages of development and testing in February 2004 and is scheduled for release in Spring 2004. Bundle Bonus Animo 6.0 also extends the power of Animo Professional, the standard and most popular Animo package, by adding some features previously only available in the optional SFX module, such as the Motion Blur node. About Animo Animo, developed and marketed by Cambridge Animation Systems (www.cambridgeanimation.com), is a high-end cartoon production suite, with an installed base of more than 3,000 seats in nearly 60 countries, offering excellent opportunities to studios throughout the world to work with international partners. Animo software is used for feature films, television series, commercials, games and multimedia development by leading studios worldwide, including Nelvana, Production IG, Toonz India, Spider Eye, Yoram Gross, Dicell, UTV Toons, Telemagination, PASI, Colorland and Vietnam Film Company.