Comparison Table Software name Release years TVPaint Animation 11 2015-20xx Release years TVPaintProfessional Animation 11 Standard 2015-20xx 2015-20xx TVPaint Animation 10 2011-2015 2015-20xx TVPaintProfessional Animation 10 Standard 2011-2015 2011- TVPaint Animation 9 2008-2011 2015 2011-2015 TVPaintProfessional Animation 9 Standard 2008-2011 2008- 2011 2008-2011 Index
Hardware Page 2 Interface Page 3 Layer options Page 5 Drawing tools Page 7 Animation tools Page 11 Coloring & Texturing tools Page 13 Storyboard tools Page 14 FX Stack Page 16 Others Page 20
x x Limited support, Available Plugin required, Not Not available Tested Hardware TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Operating System TVPaint 10 Pro Pro Standard Standard Pro Standard Windows 10 x x x x Windows 8 x x Windows 7 macOS 11.0 Big Sur x x x x macOS 10.15 Catalina x x x x macOS 10.14 Mojave x x x x (runs in 32bits) (runs in 32bits) (runs in 32bits) (runs in 32bits) macOS 10.13 High Sierra x x x x macOS 10.12 Sierra x x x x Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan x x x x Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite x x x x Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks x x x x Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion x x x x Linux Ubuntu 16.04+ x x x x Linux Debian 8+ x x x x Linux centOS 7.0 x x x x Linux Fedora 19+ x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Supported hardware TVPaint 10 Pro Pro Standard Standard Pro Standard Tablet PC Wacom Tablets Wacom Companion x x Surface Pro Tablets x x Webcams DV Camcorders HDDV Camcorders x x x MacBook Pro Retina x x x x 4K screens x x x x Recordex TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Processor TVPaint 10 Pro Pro Standard Standard Pro Standard Mac Intel Mac ARM – M1 x x x x Interface TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Interface Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Timeline tab Projects tab / display New Project tab (storyboard feature) FX Stack Interface Color Schemes Drawers TimeLine for notes Audio track zone Rooms x x x New icons (dark and clear) x x x x Size x1 Size x2 & x3 x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Panels Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Main Menu Color Gradient Tools Quit Peg-holes registration Image mark x x History x x Brushes history x x Stopwatch x x Share manager x x x x Flips x x x x Remote Preview Video in Papers Line Smoothing x x x x (within Shape Panel) (within Shape Panel) (within Shape Panel) (within Shape Panel)
Grids (as guidelines) (as guidelines)
Guides (as guidelines) (as guidelines) Guidelines x x x x Drawing recorder Shape Connection Navigator Color groups x x x x Coordinates Display Path recorder Pixel Tracker Path Manager Image Library x x x x x Color Variations (within Color Panel) (within Color Panel) TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Custom panels Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Create / export custom panels George script panel x x x x x Animator panel (replaced by Handy (replaced by Handy Panel) Panel) Handy panel x x x x Sketch panel Pastel without Anti-Aliasing x x x x Sketch panel Pure without Anti-Aliasing x x x x Sketch panel RGB with Anti-Aliasing x x x x x x Sketch panel (replaced by new (replaced by new Sketch Sketch Panel) Panel) x x Sketch panel Red (replaced by new (replaced by new Sketch Sketch Panel) Panel) x x Sketch panel RGB (replaced by new (replaced by new Sketch Sketch Panel) Panel) Tool Preset / Bin panel (V.4) (V.4) (V.3) (V.3) (V.2) (V.2) Custom panels embedded in project x x Transform Color bin in Custom panel x x Screen recorder x x Layer Options TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Layer Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Type : Anim Type : Image x x Type : CTG x x x x x Color Groups Lock Color group with Password x x Color Groups Panel x x x x Move Layers in Color Group with CTRL x x Left / Right Align Layers Lock Layer Position Layer Preset Manager x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Layer blending modes Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Color Erase x x x Behind x x x Shade x x x Light x x x Colorize x x x Tint x x x Saturate 2 x x x Value x x x Add x x x Sub x x x Multiply x x x Screen x x x Replace x x x Substitute x x x Difference x x x Divide x x x Overlay x x x Overlay2 x x x x x Alpha Diff x x x x x Dodge (Light 2) x x x Burn (Shade 2) x x x Hard light x x x Soft light x x x Grain extract x x x Grain merge x x x Substract x x x Darken only x x x Lighten only x x x Next / previous mode buttons x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Color groups Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Edit color groups Import color groups x x Export color groups x x For animation layers For sound layers x x x x For storyboards x x Protect with password x x Drawing tools TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Brush types Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Airbrush Pencil Mechanical pencil Watercolor Oil Special Text Warp (merged with Special) (merged with Special) Custom Eraser x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Custom brush options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Display cut Subpixel drawing mode (best) Wet profile Stamp in place Connection profiles (angle, size, jitter, opacity, shift...) Step Drying Warp x x Projection x x Brushes stored wih paper TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Custom Brush : Stamp modes Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Origin Alpha Alpha Max Luma Luma Invert Hue Stamp Smear Stamp Source Smear x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Custom Brush : Smooth mode Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard None Medium Best Smart x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Color Panel options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Chromatic Wheel x x x x Slider Palette / Bin Picker Mixer A & B only x x x x Color variation x x x x History Switch A and B color Load a picture as mixer Use the color history as color bin Hexadecimal display (for web) Picker modes : HSL, RGB Saturation, Saturation, Blue, Green, Red Picker mode : HSV x x Color variation panel Transparent background Mixer : Pick with CTRL / Warp with Alt / Erase with Shift Full Resizable x x x x Enter hexadecimal value in slider tab x x Transform Palette in Custom panel x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Drawing modes Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Alpha Diff Healing x x x Color Behind Erase Colorize Tint Sub Add Screen Mutliply Shade Light Saturate Unsaturate Substitute Grain Emboss Smooth Panto Solarize Negative Noise Burn Dodge Darken only Lighten only TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Connection Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Pressure Direction Orientation Fade transition Random Invert Speed Altitude Azimut Twist Wheel TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Shapes Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard One point dot Dots Stroke (filled or not) Line (filled like a polygon or not) Rectangle (filled or not) Ellipse (filled or not) 2pts Ellipse (filled or not) x x x x 2pts circle (filled or not) 3pts circle (filled or not) 3pts spline Bezier splines (filled or not) B-splines (filled or not) TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Other tools Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Stencil (mask) Selection tools Crop tool Panning tool Transform tool Distortion tool Perspective tool x x Warp tool x x x x x Zoom to zone x x Rotate canvas using Alt + Ctrl Zoom in / out canvas using Alt + RMB Pan canvas using Alt + LMB TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Guidelines Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Line Angle x x x x Segment x x x x Circle x x x x Ellipse x x x x Grid x x x x (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) Marks x x x x Vanish Point (1-2-3) x x x x Image x x x x Field Chart x x x x (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) Animator Field x x x x (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) Safe Area x x x x (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) (not as Guideline) TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Warp and Special brushes modes Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Impressionism Smear Shift Mixer Color smear Warp in / out Animation tools TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Instances Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Instance Engine Instance with the Cells Number display Manage exposures (add, delete etc...) Go to (next, previous, instance's head, exposure...) Image mark Name Instance x x Name All Instances (Prefix) x x x x Recompute Exposures Repeat Images Repeat Images Random, Loop, Ping- Pong x x Instance's sprocket Auto Break Instance Auto Create Frame x x Auto Break & Create : Layer Depending x x x x Move / Insert / Copy image selection x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Light table Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Instance / Bookmark Modes Image Mark Mode x Image Color mode Gradient mode Color mode Tint mode x x x x Light Table Bin Light Table working with rotative drawing disk Out-of-pegs Link Out-of-pegs positions x x Out-of-pegs values x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 View Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Layer Shaker Safe Area (as guidelines) (as guidelines)
Field Charts (as guidelines) (as guidelines) Animator Fields (as guidelines) (as guidelines) Animation Disc Real Time Rotative Drawing Disk Invert the project preview Horizontally and/or Vertically Fit automatically the project image to the project window (Max 100%) Display current layer Choose the Layer attenuation x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Playback Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Anim playback at any rotation angle without proxy update Adaptive Proxy Mode Play an animation with rotated working area Play an animation in navigator panel Play an animation in FullScreen mode Real time playing information x x Multiprocessors Proxy 25% Faster Proxy x x x x Preview in Navigator Panel Play Local sound Play Global sound in Clip:Timeline tab x x x x Flip Anim : Basic Flip Anim : Directional (to and from) x x Flip Anim : Manually (with stylus) x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Misc Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Timeline Free Look Ability Layer stack v.3 x x x x Peg-holes registration Image mark panel x x Stopwatch x x Flips (Panel) x x x x Bookmarks Coloring & Texturing tools TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Floodfill options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Several references : layer, above, below display. Expand (positive value) Expand (negative value) Gap closer Range Auto Pick Color TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Fill inside options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Several references : layer, above, below x x display. Expand (positive value) x x Expand (negative value) x x Gap closer x x Range x x Include lines x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 CTG Layer options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Define Sources x x x x x Edit Colors x x x x x Extract Colors separately x x x x x Extract Colors in the same Layer x x x x x Extract with AntiAliasing x x x x x Load Structure from Source x x x x x Texturizer x x x x x Display Squiggles x x x x x Apply changes automatically x x x x x Use Textures from Library x x x x x Use Textures from File x x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Papers Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Display the folders tree Invert Sharpness Angle Size Paper Management Flip Y / X Storyboard tools TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Manage storyboard Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Add a scene / a clip Duplicate a scene / a clip Delete a scene / a clip Copy, cut and paste a scene / a clip Merge next clip with current clip into one scene Merge next clip with current clip into one clip x x Lock clips' position x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Camera tool Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Set a Camera on a Clip x x x Edit a Camera (time, scale, position Angle...) x x x Add Motion blur x x x Render a Camera x x x Camera point of view x x x Load/save/reset Camera path x x x 4/3 borders x x x x Viewfinder x x x x Follow Camera x x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Save, Export, Render Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Export a clip Export a storyboard x x x Publish storyboard (PDF) x x x x Publish storyboard (HTML) x x x (limited) (limited) (limited) Render EDL x x x Render a camera x x x Export for Flix x x x x Display number of frames in PDF x x x x x JSON Export x x x x CSV Export Sprite Generator x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Views Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Thumbnails Column x x x Row x x x Timeline x x x Resize clip's scale Animation preview x x x Camera preview x x x Read project as an animatic x x x Clip color groups x x Hide clip x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Others Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Add global sound x x x Global sound groups x x x x Write project's notes Write Action, Dialog and Notes x x x FX Stack TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 General Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard FX-Stack Undo/Redo FX-Stack attached to project Play Animations in Preview Mode Hide or active HUD Add FX : current layer Add FX : current group x x Add FX : all layers x x Add FX : selection Add FX : all instances x x Add FX : frames Add FX : instance's head only TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Blur effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Center Chroma Cubic Deinterlace x x x Directional Gaussian Median Motion x x x Radial TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Color effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Black & White Converter Color adjust Color eraser Color replacer x x (not the same FX) (not the same FX)
Color Replacer Multiple x x x x Curves Dust Cleaner x x x x Expand x x x x Histogram Image Source Line Colorize x x x x Line Colorize Enhanced x x x x x Scan Cleaner Black and White Scan Cleaner Color x x x x Sliders Tint replacer x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Distortion effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Bump x x x Displacement Mapping x x x Flip x x x Kaleidoscope Mirror x x x Optical Flow Perspective 4 points x x x Tornado x x x Warp grid Wave x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Key effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Luma keyer Color keyer Chroma keyer x x x Cross keyer x x x Alpha control x x x Advanced keyer x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Motion effects Pro Standard Pro Pro Standard Keyframer Keyframer SubPixel drawing modes (None/Medium/Best) Shaker x x x x Stabilization 1 point x x x Stabilization 2 points x x x Multiplane Camera TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Paint effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Auto-paint TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Rendering effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Background generator Brush Spreading x x x x x Healing tracker x x x Inlay Texture x x x x x Lens Flare Lighting Multiline text x x x Particle Generator Pattern Generator x x x Perlin noise x x x Plasma x x x Rototracking x x x Simple text x x x Timecode Generator Volumetric light x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Stylize effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Anti-Aliasing x x x x Bevel Blender Bloom Border Color range Convolve x x x (13x13 max) (13x13 max) (13x13 max) Drop Shadow Erode Glow Grain Half tone Lumix Mosaic Negative Noise Posterize Print Solarize Toon shading TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Transition effects Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Blind x x x Block x x x Classic transition x x x Fade transition Page turn transition x x x Rotary transition x x x Slide transition x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Sources Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard FX Stack Current Layer Display Spare Paper Library Image x x x x x Custom Brush Layer Clip Project Others TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 General Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Export projects : each project keeps its last export settings Stroke recorder Drawing recorder Project infos from title bar Templates Multi configurations x x x 20 last loaded files available x x x x (only 10) (only 10) (only 10) (only 10) Manage more than 2GB of ram Manage more than 3,2GB of ram x x x George functions ~500 ~500 ~400 ~400 ~350 ~350 Custom panels CTRL key while drawing Search Engine x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Sound Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Multiple audio tracks x x x File history x x x Change size of the audio area Select scrub duration Comments for lip-sync Undo / redo x Fade-in / fade out x Cut / copy x x x Global sound in the project tab x x x Sound groups x x x x Move anim layer and sound layer from x x x x the same group with CTRL TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Export formats Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard .avi Windows only Windows only .mov .mp4 x x x x .dpi .dpx .gif .fli .png .pcx .ras .psd .tga .jpg .bmp .ilbm .tiff .sgi x x x .fly x x x .rtv x x x .cin x x x .ogg x x x Linux only Linux only Linux only .csv .tvpx .xml x x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Saving options Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard .tvp* (as an export format) (as an export format) (as an export format) (as an export format) (as an export format) (as an export format) .tvpp* .tvpp compressed* x x .tvpx embedded in .tvpp x x Auto Backup x x Save Alarm x x Multi backup x x x x
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TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Paths Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Path manager Path smooth Path average Path resize x, y, z Path constant speed Select configuration path x x x TVPaint 11 TVPaint 11 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 10 TVPaint 9 TVPaint 9 Image Library Pro Standard Pro Standard Pro Standard Embedded in Projects x x x x x Create Folders x x x x x Add from File x x x x x Add from Current Image x x x x x Add from Display x x x x x Create New Project from Image x x x x x Create Custom Brush from Image x x x x x