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Animation Stand
Specifications
Animation Stand includes
Requirements
Macintosh or Windows
Common Features:
User Interface.
- Full OS support, TrueType support, QuickTime support, automatic
subscriptions, drag-and-drop
- Pop-up, tear-off, and user-configurable toolboxes
- Traditional exposure sheet and/or graphic interface
- Graphical editing toolbox for current frame manipulations
- Hot-linking of all windows, even over a mixed network
- Customizable interfaces
- Supports pressure-sensitive stylus
- User editable color-match models
- Work at any supported color resolution or DPI, regardless of monitor,
multiple DPI views available
- Supports multiple screens
- Step-by-step tutorial
- On-screen help
- On-line manual
- Telephone, fax, World Wide Web, and eMail support
- Preferences may be saved per user, machine, or project
Resolution
- Cinema edition: Unlimited
- Personal Edition: Set to 256 x 192 pixels
- 1 to 32 bit color levels
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
- 3D rendering (Mac Only)
- Up to 60 FPS playback
ScanLink
- Operates bulk load and manual scanners
- Builds exposure sheets using OCR
- Cleans up cels/fixes lines
- Aligns using peg holes
- User controllable scanning parameters
ArtDirector
- Generates markup sheets from colored
cels
- Automatically updates color names
Ink & Paint
- 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
- 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, 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
- 6 forms of document selection options through marquee and lasso,
expand or shrink selection, fill with selection, select with polygon,
etc.
- Partial undo and revert
- Rotate, twist, resize, bend, flip, tilt, squash, and stretch
- User programmable tools
- Auto-Painter TM built-in
- ArtDirector TM available
Optical & Special Effects
- Unlimited effects in one pass
- Multiple exposures
- Transparencies -- White, black, alpha, reversed alpha, from 3D
programs
- Controlled, in-motion fades
- Mattes -- Black-and-white, color, and automatic
- Gels
- Boolean and arithmetic modes
- Rack focus
- Glow
- Backlight
- Bluescreen/Greenscreen
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
Output & Device Control
- Automatic frame/time tracking
- SMPTE control
- Switch closure actuation
- Direct film printing
- Controllers/DDRs -- VAS, Diaquest, Sony, Abekas, V/LAN, ARTI,
BCD, Sanyo, Accom, etc.
- Real-time output
Formats Supported
- 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
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