Anime Studio Pro 7 [OLD VERSION]

by Smith Micro Software Inc.

Product Features

• Ideal tool for professional artists and animators looking for an alternative to tedious frame-by-frame editing
• Make your own characters, objects, and scenes using powerful vector-based drawing tools combined with ability to import scanned drawings and images
• Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time
• Anime Studio Pro contains powerful tools, including integrated Audio Recording, Built-in Lip Syncing, Adobe Photoshop
• And Illustrator Import, Video Motion Tracking, and advanced audio and video compositing
• Output to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash, and more

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003NS5KQU
• Item model number: ASP70HBX2
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Graphics > Animation
  • #61 in Software > The Mac Software Store

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Anime Studio Pro is the ideal application for professional artists and animators looking for an alternative to tedious frame-by-frame editing. Bolstered with powerful features like bone rigging, lip syncing and audio recording, 3D shape design, physics, motion tracking, and more, Anime Studio is the indispensable tool in your production pipeline.

Import and animate your own video and art.

Intuitive Interface saves production time.

Create High-Quality Animations

Make your own characters, objects, and scenes using powerful vector-based drawing tools combined with the ability to import your scanned drawings and images.

Powerful Production Tools
Robust bone-rigging and drawing tools make character creation and animation easier than ever. Save time animating with the new Curve Profile, Follow Path, and Stroke Exposure tools, plus new automatic line-smoothing features.

Physics Simulation
Intuitively integrate simulated physics into your projects and create stunning animations where you set the density, gravity, friction, and springiness of objects and see how they collide.

3D Shape Design
Make your own 3D objects from vector layers and bring them into your 2D animation projects. Choose from Extrusion, Lathe, and Inflate, then select from multiple shading options for your 3D model, including Smooth, Toon, and Hatched.

Integrate simulated physics into your animation projects.

Choose from pre-existing content or add your own files to the Content Library. Anime Studio features integrated Audio Recording and built-in Lip Syncing.

Unlimited Output Formats
Output to formats including NTSC/PAL D1/DV Standard and Widescreen; HDV and HDTV 780p and 1080p; AVI, MOV, Flash, and more.

Features

• NEW! Set the density, gravity, friction, and springiness of objects and see how they collide with Simulated Physics
• NEW! Make 3D objects from 2D vector layers
• NEW! Quickly organize and access your content with the new library resource
• NEW! Animate curves with precision tools
• NEW! Record your own sound clips from within Anime Studio
• NEW! Use StuffIt Connect to upload video and project files to the Web, making collaboration easier than ever*
• NEW! Import your Poser Scenes and combine 2D and 3D animation. Requires Poser 7 or later.
• NEW! Gather up and organize all your project files in one location
• Implement realistic shading based on line and object contrast within each layer
• Make your characters talk with automatic lip-syncing features
• Easily combine video, audio, and animation
• Attach objects to video with Motion Tracking
• Import Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator files
• Pen tablet support simulates drawing on paper
• Add effects like motion blur and shadows
• Output in HD or for the Web; easily export your projects at ideal resolutions for iPad, iPhone, and Droid
• Customize functionality with LUA scripts
• Upload directly to YouTube and Facebook

* A free one-year subscription to the StuffIt Connect service is included with your Anime Studio purchase, offering 2 GB of storage and 4 GB of bandwidth per month.

Product Description

Animation & Cartoons

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome fun and professional quality results!, February 16, 2011

By 

Terry Oppreg "SonOfFury" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Anime Studio Pro 7 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've had so much fun making animated shorts! It's become my main hobby lately, and with this software you can produce animations that are as good as the pros (if you have some experience/knowledge of story, design, and graphics especially). Warning: As with any powerful software program, there is a learning curve here. The first few hours you will find yourself floundering around and getting pretty angry... and even once you start to get the hang of things, you will make mistakes or find yourself wondering why things haven't worked out... But once you've put in your time, the sky is the limit! Things become very easy and intuitive with some practice. And the software gives you a lot of power. Anime Studio 7 is awesome! I'm so excited with the movies I've made.

I'm just doing this for fun and as a creative outlet, but after seeing my initial results, I'm beginning to have some aspirations to make things other people would actually want to watch. I will say, though, that I think even true professionals would find this software to be excellent.

I have a couple suggestions for new users:
1. Until you really to get to know your way around, an easy way to learn is to play with the characters that come pre-loaded. Practice moving them, sizing them, transforming and turning them, adding sounds (you can even have the mouth move automatically with your recordings--look for tutorials on youtube to learn how (youtube user: contentparadise, if I remember correctly). Get accustomed to "bones" "switches" and "layers" and "keyframes".

2. Workflow and Rendering: You might want to make your longer movies in segments (in fact, I did about 20 different files with 30 seconds each to make a short movie)... This is partly in case you mess something up, and partly because rendering can be a little slow and create HUGE files (I think like 2GB per minute!... IF you are using the top-notch, lossless render... And what worked best for me was to use this lossless render of all the short segments, then use Adobe Premiere (you could also use Roxio I think, or Microsoft Movie Maker) to edit them together and re-render into a much smaller file format. I used WMV9, and the end result is a 10 minute film that's in 720p HD, super sharp, only taking 200 MB. You don't have to first render into the "lossless"--you can create a wide variety of file types and sizes with Anime Studio 7, but lossless will look sharper. I wanted to add that in this review because I'm very picky and had to do about 20 different rendering trials to figure out the sharpest results. Render lossless from Anime Studio 7, then edit and re-render into wmv9 720p 100%. Honestly, it looks like DVD + quality in the end.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seems really easy. Could use better sound / drawing tools, April 17, 2011

By 

J "tech head dc" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Anime Studio Pro 7 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

If you like the idea of making animations, but are not looking to invest a great deal of cash into tinkering around, this program seems like a good solution.

I think the potential output most similarly resembles the PBS version of "The Cat in the Hat" cartoon series. Cute, but kind of flat looking.

The "bones" are probably standard for many animation programs, but a new concept to me. It's neat.

I don't think the audio editing software is quite adequate, but it works well enough. The drawing tools are pretty rudimentary.

Rendering times can vary -- if you add a lot of the special effects, it'll take a lot longer to render. And you can't really see what the effects actually look like until they're rendered.

The 3-D is interesting, but don't think you're going to be making Toy Story. And the physics engine is a lot of fun to play with.

The other thing I didn't think worked well was the import of drawings done outside of the program -- like in Adobe Illustrator. I think there were way too many points on the lines, which bogged down the performance.

Face and mouth movements are resolved in an interesting manner. It's seems almost like stop-motion animation than traditional 2-D concepts.

This program is not going to draw your characters, do you movements, or write your script, but it is a very good tool for creating interesting animations.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Rocks!, April 18, 2011

By 

RAZZ - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Anime Studio Pro 7 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

You still have to know animation. That said, this program works better then I had hoped. I bought the Debut 6 version for some computer savvy kids, and they are going great guns with some entertaining shorts. Anybody can have fun with this program out of the box, and it has the funtions you can grow into. Best software I have for animating. I'm a convert from Flash.