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Toonboom.Com FEELING GRATEFUL SPRING 2012 toonboom.com FEELING GRATEFUL A WORD FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Customers, Partners and Friends, I would like to open the Winter issue of Toon numerous studios and educational institutions Boom News by thanking all of you for your train animators and create jobs in a fast-changing tremendous support and loyalty. There are no market.” words to describe how privileged we all feel at Our dedication to making the global animation Toon Boom to continuously serve such a vibrant industry successful can only be matched by our and dynamic community composed of professional passion for working with incredible individuals, such content creators, hobbyists, educators, students as yourselves, and helping to create entertainment and children. and messaging for a better world. We are deeply grateful for receiving our second We would like to wish you a wonderful Holiday Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, this time Season and the very best for 2013. May Peace, for Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. This wonderful Health, Love and Creativity fill up your days recognition granted by the Academy of Television throughout the New Year! Arts and Sciences is a true testament to Storyboard Pro’s significant contribution to the broadcast With warm regards, industry, be it live action or animated. I was also very touched to receive a special Humanitarian Prize at The World Animation Feature Films & VFX Summit in Marina del Rey, California. The award, presented by Animation Magazine president Jean Thoren in front of animation industry leaders, was given to me in Joan Vogelesang recognition of our “tireless efforts to develop new President and Chief Executive Officer markets in animation all over the world and helping Clockwise, from top left: Marc Bégin, Director R&D; Steven Chu, Chief Operating Officer; François Lalonde, Vice President Sales; Karina Bessoudo, Vice President Marketing; Francisco del Cueto, Chief Technology Officer; Marisa Labrador, Technical Support Manager; Lilly Vogelesang, Product Manager; Joan Vogelesang, President and Chief Executive Officer; Marc-André Bouvier-Pelletier, Senior Unit Tester. 2 Toon Boom News WINTER 2012-2013 Several workshops have been on the menu during the As Halloween lends itself perfectly to inspiring the fall, giving young talents and students the opportunity to creation of fun content, Toon Boom launched a contest explore animation and learn about pitching techniques. on its Facebook page and generated lots of activity. Not Kids’ workshops using Flip Boom Cartoon and Flip Boom only did the page receive over 11,000 Facebook likes, the All-Star were held at the Bradford Animation Festival team received nearly 100 submissions showing pumpkins in the United Kingdom, 16000 Images in France and the dancing, zombies running, and other cute Halloween- Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. Mark related elements. In addition, there were over one million Simon also delivered a Perfect Your Pitch workshop at Full page views and ad views related to the contest, including Sail University in Florida to a full room of students eager the large advertising campaign on deviantART, ads on to learn trade secrets and tips. Facebook, social media outreach and mailing list. Based on this success, Toon Boom has launched a series of sweepstakes and a new contest just in time for the festive holiday season. After a busy fall season with major events in Europe, Latin America, Asia and North America, the Toon Boom team is poised to be as visible as possible in the coming months. In this quarter alone, the calendar includes CTN Animation Expo, Booth B12, in Burbank (November 16–18), during which Toon Boom hosted special guests at its booth, namely, Michel Gagné, creator of Saga of Rex, Erick Tran, Storyboard Artist on The Simpsons and creator of Urban Reggie, as well as John K. who presented his virtual studio. The team will also attend the Joan Vogelesang receiving the Humanitarian Prize from Jean Thoren, President of Animation Magazine Asian Animation Summit in Kuala Lumpur (December In its endeavours to position the Caribbean region as a 10 –11); Cartoon Connection in Quebec City (December new animation hub, the Toon Boom team led a Caribbean 10–13), during which Image Entertainment will give a delegation to introduce delegates to key executives presentation on the making of Walter & Tandoori using at Nickelodeon, Sony Pictures Animation, Disney the Toon Boom pipeline; Consumer Electronic Show, Television, Film Roman, Bento Box Entertainment, Booth 70909 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas (January Rollman Entertainment following The World Animation 8 –11); Florida Educational Technology Conference, Feature Films and VFX Summit in Marina del Rey. The Booth 1420, in Orlando (January 28–31); Texas Computer team also met with Rita Street, Producer and Jan Nagel, Education Association, Booth 1353, in Austin (February Entertainment Marketing Diva, who welcome these new 4–8); and KidScreen Summit in New York (February 5–8). players in the industry. The team extends its heartfelt Be sure to come along and drop by our booth! thanks to everyone for their kindness, generosity and invaluable advice. Toon Boom is a proud recipient of 2011 these awards: GLOBAL ANIMATION SOFTWARE ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD Emmy-Award Technology This issue’s cover: Transformers Rescue Bots Transformers, Rescue Bots, and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. © 2012 Hasbro. Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in digital content and animation creation software, delivering products and services online to its global community. Toon Boom carries user-friendly applications for all, catering to children, home users, creative professionals as well as students, educators and schools. Toon Boom is fully dedicated to education and goes far beyond just developing technology and curriculums that will enhance the classroom experience. At the high-end studio level, Toon Boom offers a wide product range from powerful pre-production tools to leading-edge animation production solutions. Toon Boom is a 2012 and 2005 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award recipient. Copyright © 2012 Toon Boom Animation Inc. All rights reserved. Toon Boom® is a registered trademark of Toon Boom Animation Inc. toonboom.com Printed in Canada Toon Boom News WINTER 2012-2013 3 TECHNOLOGY NEWS Toon Boom Forms New Partnership with iheed Institute Full Steam Ahead on Fun Apps Toon Boom and the iheed Institute Toon Boom is actively developing fun new apps for announced their part- Android, Windows 8 and iPad. Making creativity part of a nership at MIPCOM, cool lifestyle, anyone can create, learn and teach animation building on the launch on-the-go, as well as share videos and photos on social of iheedCrowd, an media. online animation plat- “At Toon Boom, we continue to expand our portfolio form where digital of fun and intuitive applications to facilitate the creation designers have the of user-generated content anytime and anywhere,” says opportunity to create the next generation of health educa- Joan Vogelesang, president and chief executive officer of tion content. Developed by the iheed Institute, iheed- Toon Boom. Crowd brings together individuals, animation studios and No matter what tablet you are using, Toon Boom apps animation colleges who can, via animation, change the are perfect for creating playful projects and animated field of global health education and training. videos. Dr. Tom O’Callaghan, CEO of the iheed Institute, stat- ed “These animations can be used to train the millions of health workers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and beyond, aiding the billion people who still have no access to any form of health care. They will be seen on the immense number of cheap tablets and mobile phones now available as training tools across the globe and help reduce the 9 million children and 350,000 mothers who die every year from preventable and treatable conditions.” NEW WHITE PAPERS AVAILABLE ON 2D/3D INTEGRATION If you’re exploring the Image courtesy of Buzzco Associates unlimited world of possi- bilities combining 2D and 3D assets, request a copy Developing a global animation library is a major part of of the new Toon Boom the online platform. Animations have already been devel- White Papers on this topic. oped and added by acclaimed producers and studios, These new documents such as Chocolate Moose Media and Buzzco Associates. cover the Storyboard Pro By partnering with Toon Boom, iheedCrowd encourages 3D and Harmony capabili- the development of animations which will be translated ties throughout the 2D/3D into many languages and be widely and freely distributed production process. via multiple platforms, including mobile technology, to Contact your sales rep or overcome education and literacy challenges in the field. [email protected] www.iheedcrowd.org 4 Toon Boom News WINTER 2012-2013 Emmy® Award Technology TOON BOOM STAR This section is dedicated to Toon Boom employees. In each issue, we introduce you to the people behind the technology and put a face to the voice you may have spoken to. Jacques Tremblay is a key member of the Toon Boom R&D team. He joined Toon Boom in 2000 while he was completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Working on the very first version of Toon Boom Studio, Jacques developed the scene planning tools and Open GL render capabilities. Then he moved on to Toon Boom Harmony, developing the morphing, inverse kinematics, deforma- tion tools, particles, and vectorization module. In addition, Jacques was instrumental in creating Harmony’s Software Development Kit for studios wishing to develop their own plug-ins. In addition to bringing new features to Toon Boom products, he also worked on optimizing the drawing tools and creation workflow. More recently, Jacques has been applying his high-end expertise to consumer prod- TOON BOOM ucts; in particular, the development of Toon Boom Studio STORYBOARD PRO™ version 7. He took care of the bone animation features, IS A 2012 PRIMETIME weather effects, and blur effects.
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