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Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation, Inc. has announced that a Studio 4 patch is now available for all users running Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple's latest operating system. Toon Boom Studio 4 is ideal for individuals looking for an all-in-one animation software. From drawing digitally, scanning hand-drawn animations or seamlessly importing existing artwork, Studio 4 enables you to lip-sync your animation, set up the action in a 3D space and publish your animation projects for TV, HDTV, the Web and iPod.

All current Studio 4 Mac customers need to go to toonboom.com, log in, go to the My Products page, and click on Download to get the patch.

All-In-One Animation Software:
Covering the entire animation workflow from sketching to final publishing, you will find Toon Boom Studio to be a great tool to create or learn animation.

Create any styles of animation
Toon Boom Studio offers true animation features designed to facilitate the creation of any styles of animation, including traditional frame-by-frame animation, key-frame animation, cut-out and photo animation.

Easy to learn and use
No matter how much you know about computers or animation, everyone can use Toon Boom Studio. Learn how to use Toon Boom Studio quickly with our free video tutorials, online articles and sample projects or discuss with experts in our user forum.

Studio v4 increases your ability to create a wider range of animation styles easily, all within a more user friendly interface.

Studio v4 feature highlights include:

• New User Interface offers unparalleled flexibility and increased ease-of-use.
• Photo Animation Made Easy to animate bitmap images like any other vector drawing.
• Extended Line Styles to create a multitude of line styles including calligraphy.
• Feather Edges to create vector blur or glow effects.
• More Peg Functionalities to easily create improved motion effects.
• Advanced Web Publishing Options for seamless playback on the internet.
• Over 30 new features and improvements, including support of Adobe Illustrator layers, the Vectorize Preview window, improved drawing tools, Alpha Onion Skinning and support of Tablet PC OS (for Windows XP and Vista).

Software update and Macworld Expo announcement (November 10, 2007):

The Studio 4 Leopard patch is for Mac OS 10.5 customers only, and reaffirms Toon Boom’s commitment of making their animation software compatible with the leading operating systems.

Toon Boom will be showcasing Studio 4, Digital Pro, Storyboard Pro and Flip Boom at Macworld 2008, Booth W-4336, from January 15 to 18 in San Francisco. One hundred free Exhibit Hall Passes are available to be given away. First come, first served.

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