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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced that Toon Boom Storyboard is ready to ship. Meeting the needs of all production types-whether 2D animation, 3D animation or live action, Storyboard offers advanced features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.

Toon Boom Storyboard provides a:

• Flexible layer-based panel display with motion camera capabilities
• Complete set of drawing tools, including pressure-sensitive brush tool when using a digital graphic tablet and pen
• Customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable textual content, such as scene descriptions and comments
• Advanced timeline to control timing and automatically generate an animatic with sound tracks and transitions between shots
• Real-time animatic creation with dynamic camera moves
• Extensive export capabilities, including printing, image sequences, and Harmony/Opus/Solo, EDL, SWF and QuickTime file formatting.

Storyboard comes also with a complete set of templates, including characters, backgrounds, props, effects and symbols to get users started quickly.

Toon Boom Storyboard is available for purchase at www.toonboom.com, at $899.99 US SRP.