![]() ![]() Our requirement was that in order to continue producing theatre-quality animation without additional stress, the software must have the ability to combine the hand-drawn animation with the digitally painted ones seamlessly. We checked for what was available at that time and chose ‘Toonz’. Atsushi Okui, Executive Imaging Director at Studio Ghibli said “ During the production of ‘Princess Mononoke’ in 1995, we needed a software enabling us to create a certain section of the animation digitally. A comprehensive list of the new services available can be found at Commenting on this exciting announcement, Mr. ![]() ![]() With this agreement in place, Digital Video will move to the open source business model, offering to the industry commissioning, installation & configuration, training, support and customization services while allowing the animators’ community to use a state of the art technology at no cost.ĭigital Video will also continue to develop and market a Toonz Premium version at a very competitive price for those companies willing to invest in the customization of Toonz for their projects. Through OpenToonz, Dwango will create a platform that will aim to have research labs and the animated film industry actively cooperating with each other. OpenToonz will include features developed by Studio Ghibli (*Toonz Ghibli Edition) which has been a long time Toonz user. Effective Saturday March 26, the TOONZ Studio Ghibli Version will be made available to the animation community as a free download. The new open-source software - which is completely free to use and update - was officially presented this past weekend in Tokyo at Anime Japan.Digital Video, the makers of TOONZ, and DWANGO, a Japanese publisher, announced today they have signed an agreement for the acquisition by Dwango of Toonz, an animation software which was independently developed by Digital Video (Rome, Italy).ĭigital Video and Dwango agreed to close the deal under the condition Dwango will publish and develop an Open Source platform based on Toonz (OpenToonz). In addition, OpenToonz also includes effects developed by Dwango that utilize its artificial intelligence technology, and a plug-in feature that enables anyone to add original effects to OpenToonz. Toonz Ghibli Edition is a customized version of the Toonz software developed for the famed Japanese animation studio in 1995 during production of Princess Mononoke, and has been used in the ink and paint, color design and digital composition process for most of their titles ever since The Secret World of Arrietty. OpenToonz, the open-source version of the animation production software employed on the Futurama series and Studio Ghibli features such as The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was There, is now available for free download!Ĭontaining the same feature sets as the Toonz Ghibli Edition developed by longtime Toonz user Studio Ghibli, OpenToonz is from Japanese developer and media company Dwango, which recently acquired rights to the technology from Italian software developer Digital Video. Developed in 1995 during production of ‘Princess Mononoke,’ the Toonz Ghibli Edition was most recently used for the famed Japanese studio’s ‘When Marnie Was There.’ ![]()
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