# New and Improved Features in V3

Toon Boom Studio version 3 empowers artists with improvements to animation keyframing, asset reuse, lip synchronization and the user interface, so that you can make better animations quicker. Version 3 significantly simplifies the creation of cut-out animation.

User Interface

- Toon Boom Studio V3 offers a simplified user interface as the Drawing and Sceneplanning modes are now one.
- Switch between Drawing, Camera, Top and Side Views in one window.
- Now you can save window layouts.
- On Mac OS, we now render using Quartz® and provide anti-aliasing.

Create Text

- With the new Text tool, you can now add and animate text for web presentations, comic strips and more.

Animating

- Use the new Transform tool to create scaling, rotation, and skewing keyframes from one tool.
- With the new Skew tool, you can animate skewing.
- Motion, rotation and scaling keyframes in the Timeline help you visualize the timing of your pegs better.
- Create constant keyframes (with no tweening) by default.
- A new bar in the frames section of the Timeline help you distinguish between tweened and constant segments.
- With single-cell selection, you can select and modify individual keyframes in the Timeline.
- The Constant Z and Snap Last Keyframe options make it easier to work with keyframes.
- Create constant velocity function by default with the Create Linear Splines preference.
- The Show Outline on Selection and Selection Always Visible options improve your ability to work with selections.
- When you have an element selected under a parent peg, the parent peg is highlighted in green in the Timeline.

Lip Synching

- Improved sound scrubbing enables accurate adjustments to the lip synchronization.

Drawing

- The Cutter tool now allows you to divide regions with a stroke. You can then move, delete or transform those selections with the Select tool.
- The new Scissor tool allows you to cut rectangular or lasso selections from painted drawing objects as the old Cutter tool did.
- Now, when you create strokes over painted regions, they are displayed when you activate Show Strokes.
- The Reposition All tool works on gradients and textures.

Exposure Sheet

- The layering order in the Exposure Sheet has been updated. Now, the topmost layer in your animation is to the left in the Exposure Sheet.

Export

- You can now create compressed SWF files at export.

See Also
Step-by-Step: Animating Cut-Out Style
Working With Text
Positioning Pivot Points on Cut-Out Characters
Timing Pegs and Child Elements
Animating with the Transform Tool
Animating Skewing with the Skew Tool
Tweening Motion or Maintaining Constant Values Between Keyframes