Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro

Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro is an advanced graphic tool that helps traditional and digital animators, as well as students test animation sequences. You can import drawings from camera, scanner and image files, edit the designs and play back the frames in real time.

A welcome screen is displayed each time you run the utility. It is responsible for creating scenes, choosing the scene resolution, setting the scene field size, opening scenes from a list, or accessing various online tutorials.

A new scene can be generated by providing details about the saving directory, name, field size (which is the actual paper size), and resolution.

The GUI may seem a bit overwhelming at a first glance but this is only because the program comes packed with plenty of features to play with.

It divides the main window into several views, each one designed for a specific purpose, namely Color used for creating and modifying colors, Drawing that lets you see the images, draw and paint, Model responsible for revealing color models from which you can pick colors while painting and uploading vector drawing files (TVG file format), and Pen that allows adjusting the brush and eraser’s maximum and minimum size.

You can consult the Playback view for checking out the playback of your line test as a final image with antialiasing. You can view the drawings matte shape instead of the final photo and scrub through your scene and detect the sound.

The Xsheet view can be used for creating columns, embedding frames, as well as generating and exposing drawings. Plus, you can add sound, annotation columns and basic camera moves.

You may attach a new color to the palette or delete one from the list, reset the view rotation, zoom and panning to the default values in a drawing, display only the line art and color art (layers) from a drawing, zoom in or out of the view, and toggle the full screen mode.

Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro lets you add animation sequences and drawings from TWAIN scanners, production scanners, cameras, webcams, and image files (e.g. JPEG, BMP, TIF, PNG, PSD).

You can export photos to different file formats (e.g. JPEG, BMP, PAL, TGA, SGI, OMF, YUV), save the animation to a movie file, as well as export Flash clips to SWF file format.

Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro lets you playback your line test in real time. You may play or stop the animation, activate the loop mode, jump to the first or last frame, and enable sound scrubbing in the playback (useful for adjusting the lip-sync).

You are given the freedom to apply an action, such as cutting or resizing, to all visible layers simultaneously, fix small areas on drawings to be painted in the color art, drawn and sketch designs using a brush, erase unnecessary parts from the drawing, and show or hide the grid.

What’s more, the tool lets you activate the Light Table mode which is used for seeing drawings from other columns that are on the same frame number, turn on the Onion skin for visualizing the previous and next drawings, and re-position and scale all drawing strokes on every drawing.

What’s more, you can rotate your design while you draw, ink and paint your animation sequences, create a simple camera move, add sound, as well as mark your mouth shapes and phonemes in the Xsheet’s annotation columns for lip-sync.

Toon Boom Pencil Check Pro integrates an impressive number of features for helping you test and play back your animation, make use of various editing tools for personalizing the design, and add camera motion. The advanced pack of functions makes it suitable especially for professional users.