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In case you haven't seen the notice, Agent Smith has posted a link to download the trial versions of AS 6 in this thread.

I have to say that the new pdf manual is a wonderful piece of work. Congratulations to all involved!

Right up the front it lists the major new features. Because there has been so many comments in the different threads I though I would post the list here - something to read as you are downloading the trial

What’s New: New Features in Anime Studio 6
The following is not a comprehensive list of new features, but it covers most of the major changes in version 6 that might be of interest to experienced Anime Studio users.

User Interface
• New presets for document resolution. Debut is limited to 788x768.
• New UI colors
• Dockable windows, and resizable while docked
• Tool consolidation
• Add checkbox to doc window to turn on/off Construction Curves
• Space bar pans canvas
• No more separation between default and current color style
• Mini Style window (with an option to switch to “advanced” mode)
• Layer properties pop up is in layers on each layer
• Dialogs remember where they were placed and open in the same location
• Hot keys and menu items to Hide a shape, and Show All shapes. All hidden shapes are shown upon opening a file.
• New default color palette
• When picking a color from the palette, preserve the existing alpha value
• New library
• Reorder Multiple Layers
• Translate multiple layers
• Copy and paste bones across layers
• Improved quality for on-canvas image layers. Better Alpha blending
• Animated layer effects must now be turned on manually
• Animatable shape effects on styles palette

Scripting
• Upgraded to Lua 5.1
• Script writers need to use ipairs() function
• Exposed some more functions to scripting

Tool Improvements
• New Scatter Brush
• Eye Dropper tool- now picks fill and stroke off of any object on any layer.
• Some fill effects (gradient and image texture) can now be placed precisely on a shape using the Select Shape tool
• Color .png brush support
• Maximum brush width increased to 256
• A more hand-drawn line effect , accessible through the layers tab or scripts
• Improvements to Gradient fill effect: Dragging sliders, setup multiple colors to create complex gradients. Gradients are animated now.
• Some fill and line effects can display on-canvas, such as Gradient, images textures and shaded.
• Image Texture fill effect conforms better to bone warping and layer transforms
• Removed obsolete fill and line effects

Audio and Video
• Anime Studio Debut: Sequencer with 2 Audio Tracks, 1 Video Track
• Anime Studio Pro: Sequencer with Multiple Audio Tracks and Multiple Video Tracks
• Audio Panning
• HD Video Import; HD Video Export in Anime Studio Pro Only
• Video support improved: Footage is reinterpreted during import, and audio is imported.
• Movies may be opened directly in Anime Studio, with proper dimensions, duration, and frame rate. Good for doing tracking right away, or for working on a video composite project
• Video Features Tracking, allowing you to track bones (base, tip, or both)

Animation
• Non-Linear Animation
• Scale keyframes: Select keys, Alt+Click and drag on timeline to rescale
• Timeline channels only show when they are actually used
• Right-drag in the time ruler to edit timing offsets
• Onion skins need to be manually enabled - helps avoid doing it accidentally
• In timeline, minimize how much it automatically scrolls to the current frame
• Timeline buttons to navigate to previous/next keyframe
• Default interpolation is now set in the main Preferences dialog
• Preference to show all animation channels consolidated into one
• Animated layer effects must now be turned on manually
• When rendering the current frame, saving as PNG saves an alpha channel

Lip Sync
• Integrated LipSync
• AST production sync lib in Pro Only
• Debut version uses amplitude only.
• PapaGayo can still be used as always.

Morph Targets
• Pro can be used to create morph targets
• Debut can use and blend morph targets, but has no setup tools.

Import and Export
• Upload to Youtube
• Improved Illustrator import --Now the paths are parsed much better and match what is in illustrator.
• Fixed a problem with darkened (or lightened) transparent edges on PNG files

Motion Tracking
• Debut can track 3 points
• Pro can track unlimited points

Rendering
• 2D Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

There are cool things I did not noticed when I just quickly tried the v6 trial, but after reading this I decided to give it another try and now I have a better feeling of v6 than I had first. So, thanks.

The following is not a comprehensive list of new features, but it covers most of the major changes in version 6 that might be of interest to experienced Anime Studio users.

Is there a complete list of new features somewhere ? And a features-comparison-table between pro and non-pro versions ?
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do the tools work more like fazeks tool scripts? or are they still like the original tools?

The two ufotable Cafes locations in Tokyo's Nakano area and Tokushima City held the exhibition from August 8 to September 12 to mark the release of the sixth and final Bakemonogatari Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume. According to Kondo, two correction drawings by an animation director were stolen. Animation directors create correction drawings (shūsei no e) to show what changes need to be made to other animators' drawings during production.