CreaToon

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