Toon Boom Releases Storyboard Family Service Pack 1

Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Storyboard 1.5 and Storyboard Pro 1.5. In addition to several product enhancements and performance improvements, this Service Pack includes:
A new Optimize project command to remove unused elements and compress drawings or flatten all drawings in the project
The possibility to create one-frame panels
The possibility to apply commands and operations to a selection of panels, such as Reset camera, rename scene, Copy and paste camera position.
The possibility to select layers throughout a selection of panels allowing many alterations, such as show/hide, rename and flip.

• New options to export projects in PDF format
• New commands to allow camera positions and moves to be copied and pasted
• New Save Project option for Mac OS X
• New Panel navigation preferences

In addition, the PRO package gets:

• Improved capability to import Final Draft script
• The possibility to optimize the bitmap export
• New options to export to Movie

Current Toon Boom Storyboard 1.5 and Storyboard Pro 1.5 customers can download SP1 for free from toonboom.com, from their My Products page.

Toon Boom Pipeline Selected to Deliver the First Co-Production Project between Canada and South Africa

Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced that the first co-production deal between Canada’s Cookie Jar Entertainment, a leading global independent producer of children’s entertainment, and South Africa’s biggest animation studio, Clockwork Zoo, will use the Toon Boom pipeline to produce Peter Pepper’s Pet Spectacular. The 26-episode half-hour show is based on the immensely popular book of the same name by the hottest family in children’s content, mother-son duo Betty and Mickey Paraskevas (Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, Junior Knoll). Toon Boom has worked closely with Clockwork Zoo and the Cape Film Commission to present the benefits of using field-proven technology to grow the animation industry in South Africa and make it attractive to such prestigious partners as Cookie Jar. "Toon Boom is fully dedicated to making South Africa a viable animation hub and is very proud to see such great players embarking on a common venture. This is a wonderful example of what Toon Boom is committed to do: provide animation technology and know-how to producers and creators as well as facilitate business introductions within the Toon Boom community," shared Joan Vogelesang, President and Chief Executive Officer at Toon Boom.