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05/06/2008

Digital Anarchy Releases ToonIt!

Digital Anarchy, a provider of visual effects software for Adobe, Avid and Apple products, has announced that the version 1.1 update for ToonIt! Film/Video and ToonIt! Avid Version 1.1 speeds up the rendering of ToonIt! by taking advantage of multi-processors.
This allows users to quickly render cartoon-like images from film and video footage. The filters are advanced algorithms from Toonamation to create flat shades of colour with full control over details like outlines, shading styles and halftone effects.
The ToonIt! 1.1 update adds a few new features, bug fixes and speeds up rendering time by taking advantage of multi-processor machines. ToonIt 1.1 renders 70-90% faster than version 1.0.2 and over 300% faster when using After Effects CS3 and a quad-core machine. Standard Definition footage takes about 1 sec/frame using After Effects CS3 and a quad-core.
Jim Tierney, President of Digital Anarchy, said: "ToonIt! has been incredibly well received, but many users have complained about the speed. So, we spend some time optimising it and retooling it for multi-processor machines. This has given ToonIt! a tremendous speed boost. When used with the great multi-processor support in After Effects CS3, the speed increase if pretty amazing. We're very excited about this update."
With these four plug-ins, artists can customise the 'toon' effect for almost any image with styles like Flat Cartoon, Graphic Novel, Line Art, and Pen & Ink. One of the main features of ToonIt! is its ability to create a smooth animation over time with very little jitter and minimal temporal artifacts. While other cartooning software frequently produces an undesirable 'vibrating' image when played back at full speed, ToonIt! filers reduce these graphic issues and produce very consistent, pleasing results from one frame to the next.
ToonIt! Film/Video is priced at USD $299. ToonIt! Avid is priced at USD $295. Both products are on sale for USD $259 through June 15, 2008. Version 1.1 will ship with all new orders. The 1.1 update is free to existing users.
ToonIt Film/Video works in After Effects 5.5 and higher (including AE CS3), Final Cut Pro 4.5 and higher, Motion 2.1 and higher, and Premiere Pro 2.0 and higher. ToonIt! Avid works in Avid host applications that support the AVX1 and AVX2 standards. Both products run under Macintosh 10.3.9 and higher (including 10.5) and runs natively on Intel Macs. The products run under Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit systems. Demo filters and samples are available.
Further information is available at: www.digitalanarchy.com.
(KMcA/JM)
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