Dragonframe is a stop motion animation software for Windows and Mac that was designed specifically to meet the needs of feature film, commercial, broadcast television and independent film, it continues to be embraced by working professionals. Dragonframe developed with the power of next generation of image capture software to easily create stop motion animation. Its features a visual timeline editor, integrated lip-sync, advanced DMX lighting, motion control and much more.
Animation Tools
Dragonframe’s animation grabber, includes Step-to-Live, Toggle, 3-Step, Cascade Overlay, Short Play and Onion-Skin. With the Onion-Skin tool you may feel most comfortable animating. It helps you to blending your live view over the previously shot frame. Or you may choose to step up your game by stepping directly between live view and the captured frames. Turn on auto-toggle to toggle between live view and a capture frame, or loop playback to get the sense of movement you're aiming for. Load image, movie or previous Dragonframe scene in a line-up layer and view it with your animation. Blend the layer with onion-skin or even pull a chroma key on it.
Camera Controls
Set camera settings such as shutter speed, ISO and white balance directly from the program. Check and adjust focus with Canon and Nikon cameras. Take test shots and get your shot right before you start. Check images at full-resolution. Check for over or underexposed areas with the clipping view. Load images from other scenes to compare exposure and composition. Compare image contrast with the Digital Densitometer.
Dragon Stop Motion concentrates on capturing high-resolution digital stills. The idea is simple: you can always work down from high-resolution stills to whatever formats you need. It works with high-end digital cameras that incorporate a "Live View" mode. Dragon Stop Motion will allow you to grab from a separate video source if your digital still camera does not provide a live view. Also, if you prefer to work with video, Dragon Stop Motion will work for you as well.
Art of Stop-Motion Animation Maker:
Dragon's U.I. was built for the art of stop-motion animation. In the middle of a shoot, you're focused on pulling off a fantastic performance, not hunting around with the mouse. So all of the Dragon's essential features are just at your fingertips on the keypad. It was designed under the stress of real production, and world-class feature animators have used Dragon and helped shape it.
Timeline Editor
With the new frame-based timeline editor in Dragonframe, you can move, delete, copy, hide and make holds with ease. Editing is visual and intuitive—select a range of frames, pick them up, and drop them at the new location, with the option to insert or overwrite. Or use standard keyboard commands to cut, copy and paste. Quickly adjust timing by creating holds on frames. Drag a thumbnail to extend a hold. You'll be completing pop-through tests in record time.
Motion Control
The most exciting addition to Dragonframe stop motion animation software is the new Arc Motion Control system. With this multi-axis move editor you can quickly program complex camera moves. Jog motors, set keyframes, and run quick move tests that incorporate your lighting program. No more worries about your Moco system communicating with Dragonframe.
Once you've programmed a move, you'll want to test it out. Run a move test within the Arc workspace and see how it looks. The move test captures video assist frames only, in order to speed up the test process. On a long move, you can reshoot just the section you're working on. You'll have the move perfected in record time. You can reduce the amount of keyframes by placing visual markers at the positions you would like to hit, then adjusting the existing keyframe handles to hit those points.
Custom Face and Lip-Sync System
Many studios use replacement mouth sets to animate dialogue. You can create a Dragonframe face set by making a multi-layer Photoshop file. You can even specify shape sounds and hot-keys within the PSD file. Dragonframe stop motion animation makers built-in Lip-Sync System allows you to perform full lip-sync for multiple characters with replacement mouth and eye sets, directly within the audio workspace. Play back your lip-sync within the audio workspace. Loop through a section, step through it frame by frame, or scrub it with the mouse. When you're ready, export a QuickTime movie for other departments to review.
Screen Drawing Tools
Dragonframe 3 new screen drawing tools allows you mark the screen for a motion path or registration. Now you can resize, rotate and adjust drawn objects. Because they are vector-based, they scale perfectly and smoothly. Draw an auto-smoothed polyline to mark the path of a character. Then open the increment editor to add ticks to the line—breaking it up over time.
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