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Emmy award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced that Toon Boom Storyboard is ready to ship. Meeting the needs of all production types-whether 2D animation, 3D animation, or live action, Storyboard offers advanced features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.

Toon Boom Storyboard provides the following:

a flexible layer-based panel display with motion camera capabilities
a complete set of drawing tools, including pressure-sensitive brush tool when using a digital graphic tablet and pen
a customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable textual content, such as scene descriptions and comments
an advanced timeline to control timing and automatically generate an animatic with sound tracks and transitions between shots
real-time animatic creation with dynamic camera moves
extensive export capabilities, including printing, image sequences, and Harmony/Opus/Solo, EDL, SWF, and QuickTime file formatting.

Storyboard comes also with a complete set of templates, including characters, backgrounds, props, effects, and symbols to get users started quickly. Toon Boom Storyboard is available for purchase at www.toonboom.com, at $ 899.99 US SRP.