ToonLab

News

Tuesday, May 30, 2000
ToonLab is temporarily on hold as I finish off some other projects. Watch here for news in the near future of it's return.

Friday, January 14, 2000

Welcome!
ToonLab represents my love for 2D animation and my desire to make better programs available to everyone in the world.
ToonLab is an open source 2D animation system that will rival those that cost thousands of dollars (or more). Sure, you might scoff at the idea and think 'He's crazy' or 'It'll never work'. If you think about it though, these other packages are really nothing more than glorified paint programs (and their painting capabilities leave something to be desired) and a way of organizing images to make an animated scene. I don't want to debunk the efforts of the people that write this software but why not let everyone have a tool to produce professional quality animation?
Why will this succeed? My background started in art, animation and such and I've worked in various animation shops across the country over the years. Over the past 10 years I've turned to doing programming, writing various software here and there and have a few successful packages on the market now. My love for art has never disappeared, only diminished due to time contraints. Now I'm going to give something back to the community with this little package.
This is not a lone effort though. As an open source project released under the GNU General Public License, you're welcome to joing the team and contribute to the project! Just email me for details. The project is in its infancy and such, not much is available to look at. Don't worry. That'll change rapidly. Stay tooned!

ToonLab is a complete 2D animation production system. It includes a full featured 2D cel animation system, a complete sound mixer, post production processing, NTSC/PAL/AVI output, and an interactive exposure sheet for syncing up all the modules.

ToonLab is free software released under the GNU General Public Licence.

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Request an Enhancement

If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of ToonLab, please send a request to <bsimser@home.com>

Please remember that development of ToonLab is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development.

Report a Bug

If you think you have found a bug in ToonLab, then you should send as complete a report as possible to <bsimser@home.com>.

Maintainer

ToonLab is currently being maintained by <bsimser@home.com>.

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Updated: 15 Feb 2000

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