Animation Stand
1.
Platforms,
prices and company
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Mac and Windows versions available
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Cinema $595 (Educational $495)
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Personal Free
download at http://www.animationstand.com/products/requestForm2.html
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Linker Systems:
http://www.linkersystems.com
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Animation Stand site: http://www.animationstand.com
2.
Applications
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Animation Stand is a tool for scanning, painting and compositing 2-D
animation. It can be used from start to finish on an animation project, from
viewing pencil tests through final, composited output.
3.
Examples/samples
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Gallery: http://www.animationstand.com/gallery/index.html
4.
Functions
5.
Modeling
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6 forms
of document selection options through marqueeand lasso, expand or shrink selection, fill with selection,
select with polygon, etc.
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Partial
undo and revert.
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Rotate,
twist, resize, bend, flip, tilt, squash, and stretch
1.
Rendering
- NTSC legalization of any cel or palette
- Register
to any point in cel
- Pressure
sensitivity controls line width and/or ink flow
- CMYK
color separations
- Antialiasing
- 3
layers of light table
- Double-loaded
and user-defined brushes
- Bump-mapping
- Automatic cel painting
- Paint
with textures
- Multiple,
noncontiguous splines
- 32
bit masking
- Surface
mapping -- Standard and user-definable objects
- Advanced
airbrush patterns, editable flow patterns, controllable flow rate
- Multiple
Fill Types
- Pixelize, blur, and smudge images
- Extrude/relight
- Color/pattern
controls -- RGB/HSV palette spread, select color not on palette, named
colors
- Colorization
-- Saturation control, invert luminance, find lines, RGB/HSV color block
changes
- Lighting
-- Unlimited light sources including spot lights, full control over
lighting parameters
- Modes
-- Acrylic, variable blend, gel, mask, paint from another document, soft
edge, alpha channel, darkest color, lightest color, faded edges, antialiasing, partial color modes, definable wash
types and patterns, palette color spread
2. Animation
- Multi-plane
camera controls of cel art including trucks,
pans, wipes, zooms, slow in, slow out, fade and dissolve during move
- User-created,
curve-, spline-, and example-based motion paths
- Sub-pixel
antialiasing
- Sub-pixel
motion
- Full
frame accuracy on output
- No
frame or layer limit
- No
picture size limit
- 8
types of edge processing
- Automatic
drop shadows
- Linear
keying
- Pencil-test
mode
- Edit-in
features -- Output specific frames/layers
- Sound
synchronization
- Frame
and time readout
- Direct
film printing
- Up
to 60 FPS playback
3.
File
Formats
- Animation Stand Movie format
- QuickTime Movie format
- Exposure sheet
- Pani (Animation preferences)
- All major platform specific and cross-platform image formats
supported
- System 7 and WAVE Sound
4. Other Features
- A new
exposure sheet which is not limited to frame-based items. In the new
exposure sheet, each object or element can span layers or frames in any
way the animator likes.
- Support for multiple
concurrent moves and effects in any combination.
- All tools are more
context-sensitive, meaning more functionality with fewer tools.
- Direct support for USB,
Navigation Services, Appearance Manager, and other new industry
technologies.
- Even smoother and faster
computations, especially in rotations and antialiasing.
- User programmable tools
- Tools are available as icons
and single keystrokes.
- Data can be entered in
straightforward English. For example, "Drawing 7 of 12."
- Animation Stand (with ScanLink) will now automatically compute the best
scanner parameters for your specific needs.
- Automatic color correction for
color scans and imports.
- Production cost reporting
- ScanLink TM built-in.
- Multi-plane camera controls of cel art
including trucks, pans, wipes, zooms, slow in, slow out, fade and dissolve
during move.
- Linear keying
- Sound synchronization: "Beat" marking. Frame/sound
correlation. Squash/stretch sound with or without frequency shift
.Multiple concurrent sound tracks.
- Optical & Special Effects:
- Unlimited effects in one pass.
- Multiple exposures. Transparencies.
- Controlled, in-motion fades.
- Mattes, Gels, Glow.
- Rack focus.
- Backlight.
- Ink & Paint:
- 512 palette colors
can be given names for quick access and easy art direction.
- CMYK color separations
- Paint with textures
- Saturation control
- invert luminance
- find lines
- RGB/HSV color block changes
- Sound
- Edit sounds using
cut, copy, & paste
- Graphic display of
waveforms
- "Beat"
marking
- Frame/sound
correlation
- Squash/stretch sound
with or without frequency shift
- Multiple concurrent
sound tracks
- Auto-Painter TM built-in
- ArtDirector TM available
5.
Web
resources
Support: http://www.animationstand.com/support/index.html
News: http://www.animationstand.com/news/index.html
Articles: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n5_v12/ai_20211980
http://www.macworld.com/news/2002/03/15/animation/index.php
http://www.lsmarketing.com/LSMFiles/9904-lk1.htm