CreaToon 3.0

CreaToon description:

CreaToon is a powerful PC software solution to create 2D animation in cut-out style. Its main advantages are the ease of use and the real-time feedback. Moreover, CreaToon allows you to add effects that are simply not possible with traditional cut-out animation.
The website (www.creatoon.com) contains a free downloadable demo version, shows sample animations made with CreaToon, and provides animated tutorials to get up to speed very quickly.
The main features of CreaToon are:
- Real time editing and previewing your animation
- Real time animated color correction and opacity
- Easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface
- Automatic generation of in-between frames
- Various cameras to create real perspective
- Stretch and scale images
- Move objects from far to close - unlimited movements in depth
- Powerful transformation tools
- Hierarchy trees for easy character animation
- Build own image and scene library to increase productivity
- Support of curves to allow drawing inside CreaToon
- Differentiate shader quality to increase work space
- Sound synchronization
- Frame or field rendering
- Multiple inputs and outputs (incl Flash)
- Alpha output
- All windows platforms

CreaToon 3.0 was released on Apr 8, 2004. The current version will run on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP. Additional system requirements for CreaToon include OpenGL hardware acceleration.

CreaToon is a commercial software. You will be able to use the evaluation version available for download during a limited period, after what you will have to buy the full version to continue to use CreaToon.

Size of CreaToon 3.0 download is less than 5592 Kb. DSL users will only need 2 minutes to achieve the download, when 13 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem. (See below to download CreaToon 3.0).