Will Bones come to Animate as well?

Retired Products Animate General Discussion
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Have been looking at the new Bones features in Studio 6 - will this feature be added to Animate as well?

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has anyone used it in practice?

Would it be an upgrade from the current IK system?

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I think that if bones have a similar concept that Anime Pro, its a goal in flexibility and natural movement of joints, that can be adjusted by influence method, producing a real distortion in a single drawing element influenced by the bones.
A great program as Toon Boom Studio with a bones plus is a really good news for all Toon Boom users. This feature added to inverse kinematics would be an high advance in the cut out animation method in Animate 3.
Great expectation!

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Is there any answer from Toon Boom?
Because some poeple upgraded from Studio to Animate and now no possibility to upgrade to Studio 6.
(Sorry for the bad English)

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There will be a similar tool that is being developed for Animate. Also Animate Pro will have a more advanced Bone-style feature.

~Lilly
Toon Boom Support

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Lilly - thanks for your answer.
When will it be possible to compare both features to choose?

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Will it be for Animate 3? or a downloadable patch for 2? … silly question I know … :stuck_out_tongue: :-* :wink: ;D ??? :-[ :-\ 8)

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Please make it a patch

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Not a silly question at all. I’m curious to hear the answer.

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I think Alex means silly as he already pretty much knows the answer :stuck_out_tongue:

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I think this tool to animate pro should be much more complex, such as compatibility with both vector and bitmap, large hierarchy movement pro-style anime … either a patch or actulizacion, which comes well-developed tool ;D

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I don’t have any information yet on what the feature will be for the Animate series, as it is still in development. However I don’t believe that you should see the bone tool as a replacement for the current IK system. You can get beautiful rigs using the current system. There may, however, be some situations where a bone-type tool would be useful, like if you have a swinging tail for instance.

I will let you know when I have any further information on this topic.

~Lilly
Toon Boom Support

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When that happens I guess I can finally switch to TBA 100% and bid a tearful farewell to Anime Studio. That’s a bit exciting
:slight_smile: