FlipBook 5 for Windows
is Available Now!

UPGRADE FOR AS LITTLE AS $24
TO GET THE LATEST FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS!

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Save Time and Money with Paperless Animation!
Eliminate the high cost of animation paper and save the time it takes to shoot your roughs and scan your clean-ups. FlipBook 5 lets you draw right into the computer with awesome results. Our new drawing engine produces Excellent Line Quality with the look and feel of natural pencil lines with complete control over both thickness and darkness when drawing with a Wacom Graphics Tablet or Cintiq.

And our New Light Box Features make animating easier than ever by automatically showing you all the reference drawings you want. You can set it to show you either or both of the two preceding key frames and either or both of the following key frames for in-betweening or pose to pose animation. It lets you see up to five previous drawings for animating straight ahead. And it will even keep track of the current image in up to four other levels so you can always see your layout and any other levels you need to make sure your animation is always perfectly registered.

Stop Motion & Cut-Out Animation Has Never Been This Easy!
Use our Onion Skin feature to see previous frame and the live frame at the same time. Or you can Step Back through the drawings you’ve already captured and then right into a live frame to see how it’s going to look added on to the animation you’ve already shot.

Our new Loop Capture feature lets you watch the scene loop with the live camera image added onto the end of the scene so you can always see exactly how the scene will play with the next frame added. And, whether you’re posing 3 dimensional characters or flat paper cut-outs, our new Color Keying features let you super-impose your animation over the top of live action video or 2D or 3D animation. You can even display live action video behind the animation as you shoot it so you can use the live action to help you pose the animation.

Lip-Sync and Track Reading is Now Easier Than Ever!

FlipBook 5 comes with a standard mouth drawing for every letter of the alphabet. All you have to do is select the square in the xsheet and press any letter key on the keyboard and the appropriate mouth drawing will be inserted into the xsheet. Then you can slide the drawing up or down while the scene is playing to make sure the lip-synch is absolutely perfect. And you can replace our mouth drawings with your own to match your own creative style.

Direct Link to Maya

Version 5 also comes with a MEL Script that connects FlipBook to Maya to help you improve your timing and your key poses. With the MayaLink script you can automatically Export Key Frames from Maya to FlipBook where you can adjust the timing while the scene plays and updates in real-time. When you’ve found the best positions for your key frames you can import the new improved timing back into Maya where your keys automatically move to the correct frames.

You can also Draw Changes to Key Frame Poses in FlipBook and Import the Pose Changes Back into a Maya Image Plane. This is a big help for studios and schools because it lets the directors and the teachers show the animators and the students exactly how to change the key frames to make the animation better.