DigitalVideo Italy "Toonz" reborn open source software

[ten_zero]

A STOP BREATH news


https://opentoonz.github.io/
https://github.com/opentoonz/ (GitHub)

• DigitalVideo (Roma, Italy) announced that their most famous products "Toonz" bought up by Dwango Japan (Dial-up Wide Area Network Gaming Operation) and reborn open source software "OpenToonz", releace on 26th March 2016 (AnimeJapan 2016 press conference) at Ariake, Tokyo (GMT+9).
  
  OpenToonz including "Toonz Ghibli Edition" full edition.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2u8PaUMrNM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
  
  
  Studio Ghibli ："No nuke, Choose hydroelectricity" ad (2016)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDcb7Q9kSI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
  
  
  Toonz Harlequin 7.1 - General demo - French Subtitles
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGW6W4n4HYY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
  

I regret for now too broken English under confuse ; could not find written in English Français Germany and Spanish.
Because for it just uploaded only just an hours ago in Japan.

Spoiler : Sorry Written in Japanese :

日本語で失礼します。
私事ながら一時 the TABに触れた経験があるので「おいおいエイプリルフール用の報道原稿を誤配信したのか？しょうがないな … 」と混乱しています。

報道資料
　http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2016/03/18/517/
　http://japan.cnet.com/news/service/35079810/
　http://www.inside-games.jp/article/2016 ... 97002.html
　http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/docs/ne ... 49070.html

3月26日・27日に東京ビッグサイトで開催されるイベント「AnimeJapan 2016」KADOKAWAブースにおいて「OpenToonz」の展示・説明会が行われます。

　クリエイションステージにて「アニメーション制作ツールのオープンソースプロジェクトについて」と題されたセミナーが実施。ドワンゴ会長・川上量生氏のほか、「OpenToonz」について共同研究を行っている東京大学大学院情報学環の岩澤駿助教、特別ゲストとしてスタジオジブリ エグゼクティブ イメージング ディレクターの奥井敦氏が登壇します。

　「OpenToonz」はDigitalVideo社が開発したアニメ制作ソフト「Toonz」をもとに、スタジオジブリの制作フローに合わせて開発されたToonz Ghibli Editionを内包します。またドワンゴの人工知能技術を利用したエフェクトを追加できるプラグイン拡張機能を搭載。

　今回のオープンソース化はドワンゴ・DigitalVideo 両社の買収合意条件に基づくものです。
アニメーション制作に関する学術研究と映像産業が活発に連携する環境をMicrosoft Windows・Apple OS Xユーザーに無償で提供します。

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日時　2016年3月26日11時～11時45分
会場　東京ビッグサイト（東京都江東区有明 3-11-1）東6ホールクリエイションステージ

■ Studio Ghibli executive imaging director 奥井 敦氏のコメント

• 　1995年「もののけ姫」制作時に一部をデジタル制作する為、当時使用出来たソフトから選定したのが「Toonz」です。混在させても違和感が無く、劇場クオリティでもストレスなく作業出来る事が条件でした。以降、メジャーバージョンアップも乗り越え、より使い易く改良を重ねながら使用してきました。今回のオープンソース化にあたり、Ghibli Editionも提供出来る事になりました。アニメーション業界はもとより、より多くの人に使用していただければ幸いです。DigitalVideo社スタッフに感謝いたします。

■ DigitalVideo Italy managing director /Toonz main programmer Claudio Mattei氏のコメント

• 　Toonzをオープンソースプラットフォームにし、アニメーション業界に提供するというドワンゴとの契約は、Toonzを2Dアニメーション業界の標準にするというDigitalVideo社の戦略がひとつの到達地点に達したものと考えています。同時に、これは我々にとって、オープンソースビジネスモデルを推進するという新たな始まりでもあります。DigitalVideo社は既存ならびに新規の顧客に対して、Toonzのトレーニングやカスタマイズを提供することによってこれを実現していきます。我々は1995年から「Toonz」を使い続け、最も高名なユーザーでもあるスタジオジブリや、ドワンゴとともに今回の取り組みを行えることを誇りに思っております。

[ten_zero]

DigitalVideo Italy released the official announcement.

Breaking News : Toonz goes Open Source!

• http://www.toonz.com/pdf/PressRelease-T ... Source.pdf (English)
  http://www.toonz.com/pdf/PressRelease-T ... Source.pdf (Français)
  http://www.toonz.com/pdf/PressRelease-T ... Source.pdf (Italiano)

Now you can believe that I did not tell a lie.

[slowtiger]

The Toonz software I know could only colourize scanned images and composite them with BGs. Does the recent version have any drawing tools?

[ten_zero]

The Toonz software I know could only colourize scanned images and composite them with BGs. Does the recent version have any drawing tools?

Ja / Nein, 50/50.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOzRNhTpGDs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Toonz Japan limited edition has compatible mode with Celsys RETAS STUDIO)


Fistly Ghibli do not required drawing tool for Toonz Ghibli Edition, because Miyazaki & Takahata disliked digital drawin direclty outline till they retired.
They used Toonz for digial XSheet, pencil test, scanning, cleanup and water color coloring (using node composit with max 7 coloring layers).

Spoiler : written in Japanese :

　Toonz Ghibli Editionはソースコードをスタジオジブリ社内でカスタマイズしたもの。
「借りぐらしのアリエッティ」以降ほぼ全ての作品の仕上げ・色指定・撮影工程で使用しています。

Senzui Yoichi ‏@sen_cha

• 現在も社内制作は全てToonzです。
  かぐやはRETAS、Photoshop、After Effectsでの作業です。塗りはRETASですが実線はPhotoshop、After Effectsで処理してます。

https://twitter.com/sen_cha/status/404256471782658048" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In case of "Princess Kaguya / Die Legende der Prinzessin Kaguya" drawing by Japanese water color brush (background), Pentel sign marker & 6B-10B Pencil (outline, emulate as Japanese sumi-e ) on paper : 3 seconds cut per 300 papers. Finaly, coloring was Celsys PAINTMAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yppRCxWP_ss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Spoiler : written in Japanese :

「かぐや」は輪郭線の他に「彩色する範囲を示すための絵」を別途作成し、ラフな絵と重ね合わせることで彩色している。
さらに登場人物が着物を着ているため、それぞれの着物の模様を描かなければならない。
このため「着物の模様だけの絵」を専任のスタッフが作画し、それを元の輪郭線に合成している。本来なら1枚の絵だけで済むところが最低でも３枚、着物の柄や髪の毛なども含めると7枚の「彩色する範囲を示すだけの作画」が必要になる。

結果として、同時期に公開された『風立ちぬ』の総作画枚数16万枚に対し、『かぐや姫の物語』は50万枚を突破した。

Finaly they edited and exported the 4K HD by Adobe AfterEffects WITH NOICE FILTER on HP workstation as same as other Japanim Studio.

「デジタル化された映像がきれいすぎてしまうと今度はフィルムのときの良さがなくなってしまう。そのためフィルムの質感に近づけるために全編にノイズ加工をかけて出力する」

Source :
http://www.disney.co.jp/studio/ghibli/1284.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (only Japan)
http://www.adobe.com/jp/digitalimag/features/ghibli/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (written in Japanese)
http://h50146.www5.hp.com/products/work ... hibli.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (written in Japanese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPPnryDnl5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ten_zero]

One more thing,

Digital Video will also continue to develop and market a Toonz Premium version (* renamed from Toonz Harlequin 7.2 ) at a competitive price for those companies willing to invest in the customization of Toonz for their projects.

from WIRED.it : about Toonz for Ghibli original filter "IwaBokehFx"

I segreti (al computer) dello Studio Ghibli (Italiano)

• http://www.wired.it/play/cinema/2014/07 ... io-ghibli/

スタジオジブリの（コンピューターの）秘密：『思い出のマーニー』の裏側 (Japanese)

• http://wired.jp/2014/08/04/studio-ghibli/

IWASAWA Shun, ex-Studio Ghibli Toonz FX programmer talked about Toonz for Ghibli FX algorithm, 2015

数式で絵を作る　東京大学院情報学環 助教 岩澤 駿

• http://save.sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/sdmconf2015/
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBT0ctGU8AAeSWg.jpg:large
  

CGWORLD Entry vol.14 (iOS Newsstand edition)

手描きアニメーションのためのCG制作に取り組むエンジニアの仕事
　東京大学大学院情報学環 助教　岩澤 駿　

• http://cgworld.jp/news/other/entry14.html

[Jet]

Thanks ten_zero, your posts are always informative.

Things are getting very interesting in the 2D animation industry.

Krita will offer free animation with their natural drawing engine...
Blender is implementing 2D animation which is free...
Toonz will now offer a free, production proven suite used by Studio Ghibli and the Korean studios that make the Warner Bros shows, Avatar the Last Airbender and a vast number of anime from Japan, etc...
Celsys just released their production proven animation tools to Clip Studio Paint as a free update, otherwise still fairly affordable...
DigiCel FlipBook is about to release a major update that will support Photoshop brushes...
ToonBoom are targeting the Japan market once more, now Pokemon is produced with it...
Adobe to re-release Flash as an animator centrist package...

It's exciting to say the least... One big gripe people usually have is 2D animation suites are overpriced compared to stop motion or CGI tools used by Pixar and Laika, so now hopefully there is no more excuses to resort to cheap Flash animation and people can start re-learning 2D animation again. I'll be sure to pick this up, Toonz is pretty powerful and if it's anything like I used in the past or read from the Studio Ghibli design books it could easily become my new daily driver and replace my current setup.

I wonder if Celsys will eventually localize PaintMan in English, since Toonz and Clip Studio Paint are cross compatible.

[slowtiger]

I'm definitely not going to abandon TVP for anything else - nobody with a good knowledge of a software will do that. But I'm afraid I'll have to learn at least some basics in all these programs because I can see future students of mine already using them.

[ten_zero]

I wonder if Celsys will eventually localize PaintMan in English, since Toonz and Clip Studio Paint are cross compatible.

It's pity that Celsys closed to develop RETAS STUDIO yet.
One of digital Anime drawing technology forum in December 2015 (Kyoto), Mr. Nozaki who is Celsys CEO said "We must unite Time-sheet (X-sheet) & PAINTMAN to CSP".

http://studiodomo.jp/wordpress/research ... niversity/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (written in Japanese)

But I'm afraid I'll have to learn at least some basics in all these programs because I can see future students of mine already using them.

Exactly.
In Asia and Oceanic Animation industry, there are too many "the Black Ships : digital animation software without SmithMicro Anime Studio" jumped into "the market golden goal -low price or high creativity-" in a few months.

Spoiler : off the record :

My most favorite 2DCG software is Corel Painter family : they had bundled "Preston Blair's Advanced Animation" Japanese localized interactive learning edition.

Some people say "Corel Painter is WHAT ??? Are you STILL there !?". That's true, the animate function is gone

[ten_zero]

May this article become one of answer for Mr. Slowtiger's indicate.

CBcom_OT.jpg

• http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/toonz-s ... 38111.html

The announcement of OpenToonz comes at a time when animation is experiencing the biggest boom period in its history. The widespread availability of hardware is allowing animation production to expand in parts of the world that traditionally have not been major animation producers (South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East).

However, many of the young artists in these regions do not have the resources to invest in proprietary software. That’s especially why we view OpenToonz, a free professional-grade 2D animation software, as a complete and total gamechanger for the animation industry moving forward. The animation floodgates just opened.

[ten_zero]

WIRED.uk : Toonz software used by Studio Ghibli is now free and open source

• http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... e-download
  
  

  Toonz was first released in 1993 and has gone on to become a powerful tool for 2D animation. Besides Studio Ghibli's more recent works -- first used on 1999's Princess Mononoke -- it's also been used to produce the likes of Futurama, Asterix, and even video games such as Discworld 2.

Hmm, in use Astérix ... Is this (2015) ? (Ask Google)

Gerhard Hahn Filmproduktion

• The complex sequence of the sea storm in Asterix in America (1994) was completely done with Toonz.

[slowtiger]

I can confirm that Toonz was used in the production of "Asterix in Amerika". But this was a hybrid production: most of the film was still done with cels under the camera, they even built a new multiplane camera for it (must have been one of the the last of its kind).

The sea storm was not done "completely in Toonz", in fact the waves and ships were done in Softimage, then the wireframes were printed on A3 paper, and the characters were animated on top of that. Ripples on the surface of the ocean were an animated texture on paper, and the sky was done on paper as well. (I was responsible for scanning these parts and match colours as close as possible.) The CGI elements were rendererd, using the new "Mental Ray" shader which gave the ships a black outline and flat colours. This was combined with the scanned in character animation from Toonz.

[Fabrice]

Asterix

Good question :
not the recent 3D Asterix film (I have seen their workflow during a fun conference, it's using Mari, Nuke, Maya, etc. see below), but an older Asterix film.

- - - -

In fact, ToonZ is not anymore used in Europe except a very few number of studios.
Back in 2009, when working with Illuminated Films in London for Michael Dudok de Wit next film (the one funded by Ghibli), we were in competition with ToonBoom and ToonZ (on that time Animo was killed already by ToonBoom) and finally TVPaint was selected.

[ten_zero]

Thank you for reply and minute information.
As you understand "Astérix" don't know in my region so its very helpful.

I can recall vividly how almost "Ghiblist" & Japan/over the sea media said the negative "Yamada, the disgrace of Ghibli using CG" ; the first product "Made with Toonz (all coloring 3-5 layers per a frame, FX, particle for Fireworks and multiplane composit)".
[spoiler="Yamada" trailer French/Germany edition]Yamada is my most favorite Ghibli film (next : Porco Rosso) and like to play the Blu-ray in German language overvoice.
Sadly it is not contain Français overvoice only subtitle ... "Poco Rosso" Japan edition including French overvoice (as Jean Reno), but there are not Italiano in despite of Italian

[/spoiler]

Today the critics praise by the irony of fate : Toonz, "the Ghibli choosed" software become free and Open Source ...
Anyway, the day coming on Tomorrow morning ( at midnight in France/Germany ). I will watch the keynote streaming and back to report .

• Excuse me for misreaded "Reality..." as "Really...", means of "seriously".

(on that time Animo was killed already by ToonBoom)

• GoLive, FreeHand, Director, LiveMotion, PageMaker, Sofimage (3DCG) << You are not only alone >>
  I afraid of (made with)Mischief that is a handy useful and simply vector brush software for Mac mini : After buyout by the Foundry it seems into a looooong cold sleep or become part of MARI

/* off the topic*/
Now may I ask one more question about Astérix ?
I read French culture & casual Idiom from "Histoire naturelle (Natural history)" book and some Iconologie guide translated from Italian, French and Germany but there are no answer.


Why the get angry people always throught fish to co-star's face ???
I think that portrayal become one of the reason why Astérix the movie does not play on screen in my region (without "Mission Kleopatra" because for feat. Monica Bellucci): "an act of regard foodstuff and commodities".[/list]

[ten_zero]

OpenToonz begun to download under New BSD License.

• https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz

[ten_zero]

Spoiler : So, what can I use for ? :

Without Storyboard (Ghibli used Avid Media Composer for Release printing) .

• 

UI language : Italiano (native) / English, Français and Japanese (mechanical translation).

• 001.jpg

Scanning by GTS (called Toonz for Ghibli / Windows only)

• 

Digital Painting as same as Toonz Harlequin

• 

Filming with Japanese Timesheet/X-sheet synthesized node tree.

• 

Other features (from offical docment)

• 

• -Compatible with both raster and vector images (scanning : tiff or png)
  -Equipped with the function for the interconversion between the sequence image of the colored binarized TGA and the OpenToonz format, to secure the compatibility with existing workflow.

• -OpenToonz FX SDK sample by Dwango : Changing Picture Styles, Affected incident light (like 出崎 統/ DEZAKI Osamu), Wavy distortion
  • OTG.jpg
    DEZAKI's パラフレア（Affected incident light）
    

OpenToonz Recommended :

Attention

• 　First, every technical/user manual, Terms to Use & Github information written in Japanese.
  You may post & get answer between English speaker on Google group OpenToonz English topic.
  When you required a legal technical support for commercial use & education in English / Français /Italiano, visit "welcome to Toonz Premium (Toonz commercial maintenance contract plan)".

Macintosh

• OS X 10.9 or a later version / Intel Core i series processor / 4 GB or more RAM
  500 MB or more available storage space/ 1280 x 1024 or higher monitor resolution

Windows

• Microsoft Windows 7 SP1/8.1/10 (64bit required)/ Intel Core i series processor / 4GB or more RAM
  500 MB or more available storage space / 1280 x 1024 or higher monitor resolution

"Toonz for Ghibli" renamed TWAIN scanning tool "GTS" (like Celsys SCANMAN) limited presents for Windows : EPSON DS-50000 is recommended.

• Microsoft Windows 7/8.1/10
  Intel Core i series processor/ 2 GB or more RAM / 8 MB or more available storage space