Amazon.com Product Review
The fun, quick and affordable way to create animations, Anime Studio is the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts.
Create your own cartoons and animations--the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts. Click to enlarge. |
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
Average Customer Review
(109 customer reviews) 158 of 160 people found the following review helpful
Easy to get started, difficult to master - all that a beginner/amateur needs to create very sophisticated 2-d animation!,
October 7, 2009 This review is from: Anime Studio Debut 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
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Customer Video Review Length:: 1:29 Mins
I've been playing with Anime Studio Debut in my free time for about a week now (on a Mac, though this package includes installation discs for both mac and windows), and I'm a complete beginner. I'm pretty happy with what I've been able to do after just one week. Anime Studio Debut is a lot of fun, and is a very sophisticated and flexible program. It's very easy to get started animating simple things, but for more complicated designs it can be fairly time intensive. This video, for example, that I created in order to practice my animation skills, took several hours to create. (I posted this in October, which is why I made it Halloween-themed. I'm not always inclined to the macabre!)
The program is focused around creating characters whose design is flexible enough that they can be molded and shaped in a number of scenarios. That means that, even though it took me a long time to create this short video, more than half of that time went into creating...Read more
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
An arduous learning curve, it's suitable only for the highly motivated,
November 12, 2009 This review is from: Anime Studio Debut 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
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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...Read more
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Fun animation software, easy to get started, but not for true beginners,
September 20, 2009 Natalie Mootz (Huntington Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Anime Studio Debut 6 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
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Customer Video Review Length:: 0:46 Mins
Bottom Line
If you already know a bit about animation techniques, Anime Studio Debut 6 lets you easily jump into making your own animated movies. On the other hand, if you don't understand terms like "key frames" and "walk cycles," you'll have a difficult time using it without some more study. When I was a beginning game design student, I used Maya and Photoshop to create animations. However, I think Anime Studio Debut 6 is much more fun and easy to use for animation than either of those programs and it also allows you to get up and running with your cartoons much more quickly. It's an extremely good value for the money if you want to start animating.
Strengths
* Easy to get started: The tutorials are one of the software's strengths. They are enjoyable, easy to follow, and very comprehensive in the use of the Anime Studio tools. However, the tutorials do not attempt to teach you much about important animation concepts. (You'll need to learn...Read more
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