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 Outils
- Hierarchy trees for easy character animation
- Build own image and scene library to increase Productivité
- 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