Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. (toonboom.com), the market leader in animation technology, is proud to announce the release of a new version of Toon Boom Harmony in its standalone version for small businesses, as well as its network version.


which includes new features:

Advanced BlursTake advantage of the wide array of blur tools, including new Gaussian and box blurs, rotational blur, zoom blur, and spiral blur. Achieve effects such as blur around a circle, which is similar to blurring a rotating merry-go-round. With zoom blur, you can blur towards a central point, like when a character is running towards a camera.  And spiral blur gives the effect of water draining down a drain.

Lens FlareTake advantage of the lens flare to create lens flares with up to 10 flares.  Adjust the hotspot, angle, and spread, and animate these values over time for cool effects.

TurbulenceUse the Turbulence effect to modify a drawing and break it apart. Create interesting effects like making a drawing disintegrate or explode. Create vibrating lines, heat waves coming off a road, or ripples on water. Break up the lines to look like crayon or other paper effects.

Turbulence NoisePlay around with Turbulence Noise to create new effects like lighting or sun rays. Make your drawing look like an overexposed photograph. Experiment with creating walls of fire, smoke, mist, or clouds.

Colour EffectsUse the Channel Swap effect to extract red, green, blue, and alpha values and use the channels to make adjustments. Use the new Hue-Saturation effect to perform colour correction or colourize the drawing to get looks like sepia tones.

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