Artists can now complete 2-D animations alongside audio, editing, painting and compositing in a single, seamless environment. Digital Video's Toonz software has been an invaluable tool on the production of countless feature films, videos and commercials ranging from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke to Beavis and Butthead. Toonz DS 1.0 provides users with many of the modules and toolsets available in the standalone product. The tour is divided into different sections showing Toonz product features as they relate to production workflow, from scanning the original drawings to the final exposure sheet compositing. Also provided is a detailed user manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Users can scan their line drawings at the highest quality, either in black and white or grey tones.
Toonz also uses proprietary drivers for several scanners. Images can be perfectly aligned with reference to their pegholes and black and white scans can be anti-aliased. Cleanup can also automatically identify pegholes and align-scanned images correctly. Cleanup also allows users to treat any TIFF image created by other software packages as a standard Toonz TZU file. Tools can be used in combination with modifiers in order to apply them to a range of frames or to several areas of the image simultaneously.