Camera Effects with Toon Boom Studio

Like traditional animation, Toon Boom Studio cameras capture a view of your scene that will playback for your audience. You can use cameras to frame your scenes just as you do when you take a picture or film a movie.

With Toon Boom Studio, you can:

Reposition cameras

You can reposition a camera to get a specific view of a scene. For example, if you want your audience to view the action in the center of a large forest scene, you would reposition your camera to view only that area of the scene.

Zoom cameras in or out

You can change the field-of-view (FOV) of the camera for the entire duration of the scene. If you wanted your whole scene to focus on the face of one character as she spoke, you could set the zoom level of the camera to exclude all other characters and action in your scene.

Zoom cameras dynamically throughout your scene

You can also change the zoom level dynamically throughout your scene to create complex zooming effects. For example, you can start a scene with a close-up of a character and then zoom-out to see all of the action in your scene.

Pan cameras across or up and down your scene, or truck cameras in and out

Creating pans and trucks with the camera is a breeze when you attach cameras to pegs and then create motion effects on the pegs. You can create the effect of moving through your scene by attaching a camera to a peg and then giving the peg front to back motion through your scene.