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.