Good news for budding artists. Toonz, the famous toonz software used for masterpieces like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away the Futurama or just went open source. Great news for the animation studios, as this professional 2D animation software capable of processing paper and digital drawings could cost up to 10,000 dollars.
On March 26, this version Free will be officially presented in Tokyo at the Japan Anime to be held on 26 and 27 March. This offering, we owe to the Italian studio Digital video has made a deal with Dwango, Japanese publisher to produce a free version of Toonz in order to make this software the standard in 2D animation. Toonz offer assistance and fee-based training to support open source software.
toonz was released in 1993 and is used to transform the art hand-drawn vector graphics. The latest version can convert a single drawing in a complete sequence of animation. Studio Ghibli used Toonz since 1995, when the studio needed a software to digitally render a sequence in the film.
“The software must have the possibility of combining drawn animation hand with those painted digitally seamlessly. From that moment, we continued to use the software that has been improved from version to version to facilitate its use. “
” We are pleased that this version contains Open Source edition created for Ghibli. We hope that this software is increasingly used even outside the animation industry. We express our gratitude to Digital Personal Video “ said Atsushi Okui, director at Studio Ghibli.
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