Announcing a brand new paperless animation software “the TAB” from Digital Video

With the rapid evolution of creative and technical standards for the Web, designers require tools that can deliver high quality animation efficiently and economically. The knowledge of traditional animation world has allowed Digital Video to design "the TAB", a software that is animation-oriented rather then graphic design-oriented. By putting together the company's experience and skill with animators' interests and concerns, a completely computer-based cartoon animation system is born, that radically streamlines the cartoon production process.

"the TAB" has been created to satisfy the needs of cartoon artists, animation designers and web-animation companies who need a quick and powerful tool for their creations, eliminating the tedious slowness of the hand-drawn animation. Digital Video is however sure that animators with traditional animation background, accustomed to high-end animation programs, will find in "the TAB" a new exciting alternative tool to draw, paint and animate their cartoon characters.

Based on a new technology that includes an intuitive vector handling technique that uses dynamic control points and an adaptive fill system, "the TAB" allows animators to finally draw in a natural and intuitive way. "the TAB" has some superior features exploiting the power of vectors, without the restrictions they usually have, such as constant thickness lines, flat colors and control points complex management. Drawings can be animated by modifying vectors like you were modeling clay: you can start from a single drawing, and bring it to life by making subsequent modifications, or you can interpolate two drawings using the inbetweener. Besides, as "the TAB" images are color-mapped, when a color is changed, all the areas linked to that colors will change, with no need to repaint them. And when you stretch, pull or distort a drawing because you want to animate it, filled areas will remain filled areas, remaining stuck to the strokes you're stretching like gum.

Managing vector-based drawings in an innovative way, giving you new tools to intuitively animate drawings, supporting advanced scene planning with full camera movements, full import and export capabilities, "the TAB" satisfies the needs of new and old generations of animators.

"the TAB" is available for MAC OS X, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

For further product information, please visit our website, www.intraware.com.au, for product and/or pricing inquiries and information regarding reselling the product in Australia and New Zealand, please contact Intraware Australia on (02) 9439-0244, fax: (02) 9439-0255, or email on info@intraware.com.au.

About Digital Video

Digital Video S.R.L. (DV), parent and R&D company of Toonz, was founded in 1986. Based in Rome, Italy, DV has made the development of its Toonz software package its mission and Toonz has become the world leader in cartoon animation applications. Toonz is distributed worldwide by Softimage Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of AVID Corp. that is based in Montreal, Canada and by other Authorized Resellers and Master Distributors.

With "the TAB", Toonz Animation Board, its new product for web animation, the skills of professional animation now have been made available into an intuitive and easy-to-use environment that allows to draw directly into the computer and create animation contents. The revolutionary approach in handling vector strokes make of it a perfect fit for web animators and for Flash users willing to enrich the animation contents of their work.

Further to Toonz and "the TAB", DV has developed other products for the animation industry:

The list of professional companies currently using Toonz is enormous, as the installed Toonz base is well over 2,200 seats. Our products are successfully used to produce hours of animation per day for film, television and multimedia.