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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Toon Boom Animation announced today the release of Toon Boom Studio V3. Toon Boom Studio V3 has a number of new and enhanced features—including the new Text and Transform tools, as well as improvements to lip synching—that make it easy for users to create cut-out animation.

Toon Boom Studio V3 is a great tool for playing with cut-outs: it includes a number of tools that simplify this animation style:

• The new Free Transform tool enables users to apply any combinations of scaling, rotation and skewing to animate faster
• Users can also add text for effective communication in web presentations, comic strips and more
• Automated lip sync tools allow fast sound track synchronization
• Improved sound scrubbing enables accurate adjustments to the lip synchronization
• Users can animate with key frames and use interpolation to create animation faster
• The library enables users to save drawings, animation cycles and motions for reuse
• The time line makes it easy to organize layers, set the timing and attach motion paths to elements
• Cell-swapping and templates add even more speed to cartoon creation
• Users can easily create dollys, trucks, zooms and other eye-catching camera moves with the 3D space and camera

In addition, Toon Boom Studio V3 offers a simplified user interface as the Drawing and Sceneplanning modes are now one.

Toon Boom will be showcasing Toon Boom Studio V3 at Flashforward New York, from July 6th to 8th, 2005. A technology showcase titled What Will You Animate Now? will be held on July 7th, at 11:30 am in the Sutton Place, at the New Yorker Hotel.

All orders that require shipping will be done during the month of July. All customers who purchase Toon Boom Studio V3 during the Pre-Sale Promo will receive their V3 license key(s) by e-mail.

For more information on Toon Boom Studio V3, visit the Toon Boom website.