Animation Software Toonz To Be Made Available As A Free Version [OpenToonz]

[6Foot2]

Link: toonz

 

Digital Video, the makers of TOONZ, and DWANGO, a Japanese publisher, announced today they have signed an agreement for the acquisition by Dwango of Toonz, an animation software which was independently developed by Digital Video (Rome, Italy).

 

Digital Video and Dwango agreed to close the deal under the condition Dwango will publish and develop an Open Source platform based on Toonz (OpenToonz). Effective Saturday March 26, the TOONZ Studio Ghibli Version will be made available to the animation community as a free download.

 

OpenToonz will include features developed by Studio Ghibli (*Toonz Ghibli Edition) which has been a long time Toonz user. Through OpenToonz, Dwango will create a platform that will aim to have research labs and the animated film industry actively cooperating with each other...

[browolf]

I read about this on the ios news app.

 

You can download it now from https://opentoonz.github.io/e/download/opentoonz.html

 

I'm trying to deploy it in school, of course there's no apparent silent option on the exe....

 

Initially it's a "what do i do?" type program. there's a few tutorials on youtube about it that really help.

[mavhc]

I read about this on the ios news app.

 

You can download it now from https://opentoonz.github.io/e/download/opentoonz.html

 

I'm trying to deploy it in school, of course there's no apparent silent option on the exe....

 

Initially it's a "what do i do?" type program. there's a few tutorials on youtube about it that really help.

 

Lack of English docs is an issue, there's some user translations.

 

My method of deployment is to copy the program to a network drive and run it from there. 2 issues

 

1. Needs a reg entry, using GPP to do that

 

2. Needs a load of user files, bat file that I use to run the exe does that, copied the stuff folder inside the network folder:

if exist "H:\Applications\OpenToonz\" goto end
mkdir H:\Applications\OpenToonz\
xcopy "R:\Graphics\OpenToonz 1.1\OpenToonz 1.1 stuff" H:\Applications\OpenToonz\ /q /e /s
:end
cd /D "R:\Graphics\OpenToonz 1.1\"
start "OpenToonz_1.1.exe"