e frontier wrote:Scotts Valley, CA, September 6, 2006 - e frontier, America Inc., today announced the release of Anime Studio 5, a 2D animation and cartoon creation software. Anime Studio utilizes a unique and revolutionary “bone rigging” system normally found only in 3D graphics software that streamlines the animation workflow, reduces production time, and saves money by requiring a smaller team of animators than normally used in animation. Powerful manipulation and drawing tools can be used with digital photos to create cut out animations similar to Jibjab.com and SouthParkStudios.com. Importing of drawings, movies and sounds to create high-quality and entertaining animations has also been made easy with Anime Studio.
This may be of interest to AMV makers who want to do their own artwork, keeping in mind that this software is for animation, not manga (they have another program called Manga Studio).
Anime Studio Product Page
I'm not sure why they're calling it "5" since everything I can find says this is new software. Here's another brief article:
http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2006/08/03/e-frontier-and-anime/
