Super interesting times for every digital animator! Good stuff. Toonz Animation, the animation division of Toonz Media Group, is a pioneering institution in the field of animation in Asia. We'd gain access to a proven feature length animation production tool which cost $6000. The feature list competes well with ToonBoom Harmony, but reading from user comments the workflow and GUI is just better and more well thought out than Harmony. This, however, spells potential disaster for freelancer animator oriented commercial products.
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If the open source version turns out to be the full version with fbf animation, nodal compositing, IK, - the Full Monty - basically what studio ghibli uses in production, then we users are in for a treat. Harmony is currently too much entrenched in studios, but still. Toonz going open source, however, could potentially be quite disruptive for products such as Anime Studio and Toonboom Advanced. This is awesome Heres some background information about this software: Japanese developer and media company Dwango announced that it has acquired animation production software Toonz from Italian developer Digital Video, with a forthcoming release of an open-source version containing the same feature sets as the Toonz Ghibli Edition developed by longtime Toonz user Studio Ghibli. Toonz is a reliable 2D animation software that comes with various. So far we have had Krita, the "new" (Flash) Animate, a new 2d cutout animation addon for Blender (which already has seen further improvements), ClipStudio's animation tools, and now this! OpenToonz, the open source version of the Toonz animation software used by Studio. Yes, 2016 is turning out to be a big one for 2d animation software.