Anime Studio Pro 9.5 – Available Now!

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Anime Studio Pro 9.5 - - Everything you need to make amazing, professional animations.

Whether you're an experienced artist animator or just getting started with a new hobby and want to come up to speed super fast, Anime Studio 9 is an investment that you won't regret.

Learn all about the new version here: http://anime.smithmicro.com/

HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

HIGHER QUALITY & MORE CONTROL
Revolutionary Smart Bones
UPDATED in Anime Studio Pro 9.5 - Smart Bones is an incredible feature that reduces or entirely removes distortion around your character's joints - specifically around knees and elbows. Group a set of points and use the Smart Bones control levers to create 3D looking motion that you can easily repeat with the turn of a dial. For example with Smart Bones you can control facial expressions and head-turning on a character with simple dial movements instead of having to touch each bone point. Smart Bones not only steps up the quality and realism of the bone actions, but makes it MUCH easier to repeat complex movements and control your rigged elements. UPDATE to Smart Bones now allow the ability to control Switch layers, Layer order, Layer visibility, Follow path, Flip layer horizontally/vertically, Stroke exposure, Shape effect positioning, Shape effect parameters (like gradient colors), 3D thickness of vector shapes that have been converted to 3D and even more smart bones controls. [Pro Only Feature]

MORE PRECISION
Depth Shifting
NEW in Anime Studio Pro 9.5 - When moving an object forward and back in Z, Depth Shifting is an option to preserve its apparent size. Anime Studio Pro 9.5 does this by automatically applying the proper amount of scale. This can be used to arrange landscapes, for example placing mountains far away without forcing them to become tiny.

STREAMLINED PROCESS
Media foundation
NEW in Anime Studio Pro 9.5 - The 64-bit Windows version of Anime Studio Pro 9.5 will now use Media Foundation. It is no longer necessary to install QuickTime to import popular audio and video formats like MP3, AAC, MP4, and QuickTime. When exporting animations on Windows 7 and higher, the application can create movies using the Windows Media Foundation media library. When exporting animations on Windows XP and higher, the application can create movies using the DirectShow media library.

MAJOR TIME SAVER
Bone-Rigging System
UPDATED in Anime Studio 9.5 - Bone-rigging is a fast and efficient alternative to tedious frame-by-frame animation. Add a skeleton to any image by pointing and clicking to create bones that overlay the parts of your image, to control arms or legs for example. Then bring your image to life by moving any individual bone point to create the pose or motion you want, while keeping your project organized with the sequencer and timeline. UPDATE to bones now allows you to add labels and assign colors to bones. The keyframes for colored bones show up in the timeline in special colored channels to match.

POWERFUL RIGGING OPTIONS
Nested Layer Controls
NEW in Anime Studio 9.5 - Up until 9.5, bones could only control their direct children. Now, bones can control the children of their children. If you have a group inside a bone layer and then vector layers inside that group, the bone layer can manipulate the artwork in those vector layers if nested layer control is turned on. This allows for more powerful rigging options, while simultaneously simplifying and allow more organization in the layer hierarchy.

MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY
Flexi-Binding
NEW in Anime Studio 9.5 - Flexi-Binding allows you to isolate the influence of a set of bones from the rest of the skeleton. For example, only the right arm bones should affect the artwork for the right arm. This lessens (or eliminates) the need to separate artwork on frame zero, and then put it back together again with the Offset Bone tool. This is a great new feature for images and vectors.

SPEED UP YOUR WORKFLOW
Styles Improvement
UPDATED in Anime Studio 9.5 - Improvements to Styles now allow you to see realtime changes to shape's fill color, stroke color, brush settings, etc. on the canvas so you can see exactly what effect your changes will have.

PICK ANY COLOR
Update to Eye Dropper
UPDATED in Anime Studio 9.5 - The updated and improved Eyedropper has options to just select fill color or stroke color, or copy a color to the clipboard.

COMPLETE CONTROL
UPDATED in Anime Studio 9.5

Enhancements to Switch Layers
Improvements to switch layer behavior will allow them to work better for frame-by-frame animation.

Switch Layer Keyframes Match Layer Colors
If the children of a switch layer have layer colors assigned, then when those children are active, the corresponding keys in the timeline will have the same color. This makes it easier to see what switch layer is active at what time with a quick glance.

Easy Control Over Switch Layers
To change a switch layer's active child, you can now simply Alt+Cmd+right click on it in the workspace. No need to select it in the Layers palette.

OTHER MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS
UPDATED in Anime Studio 9.5

Improvements to Brush Spacing
Brushes sometimes tended to bunch up, especially around pointy corners. The brush spacing is now much more even, including when the curviness of a shape is animated over time.

Graying Inactive Layers
This can clear up the visual clutter on the screen when you want to mostly concentrate on a single object.

Layer Shading Enhancement
Layer shading now has an option to invert the shading, so instead of making a layer look shaded, it now can also look like it has a rim highlight

Masking Indicator on Layer and Group
This makes it easy to see when masking is in effect, as well as what contribution each layer has to a mask.

Follow Path Layer Indicator
Layers that follow a path get an indicator on top of their icon in the Layers palette.

Freehand tool improvements
You can now control the amount of tapering at the beginning and end of a stroke.

New Scripts
Spherical panorama - Convert a spherical panorama image into a 3D sphere that can be viewed from any angle with the camera tools.
Fisheye - Turn a fisheye image into a curved, wide-angle surface that can be panned around with the camera tools.
Tiling Script - Allows the user to create repeating texture patterns to fill the workspace (they can be animated as well).

INCLUDES MANY MORE FEATURES!!!

Learn all about the new version here: http://anime.smithmicro.com/

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Where or how do I get the update? All I can find on the website is the 9.2 update.