Toon Boom Animation Partners With Unity Technologies at GDC 2015


MONTREAL, March 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toon Boom Animation will be showcasing its industry leading all-in-one animation software tool at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 in San Francisco from March 4 to 6. For the 5th consecutive year, the company's R&D group will be participating in the international gathering that allows developers the opportunity to share ideas and together build the future of the industry.

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Toon Boom has been invited by Unity Technologies to occupy one of the highly coveted exhibitor stands located within their booth at the entrance of Moscone Center (Booth #1402).

Toon Boom Harmony enables animators to create stunning 2D game art and animations for multiplatform games. GDC attendees will learn about Harmony's full-feature set for drawing, its flexible 2D rigging for animation, and how Harmony provides developers with a Unity game object component for seamless game integration. Toon Boom Harmony fully integrates with Unity, the industry's most popular game engine.

"Developers attending GDC and who stop by the Unity booth will learn how to use Harmony to create, animate and export reusable, lightweight animation into the Unity game engine," says Francisco Del Cueto, Chief Technology Officer at Toon Boom.

Special Note:

Frederic Bouchard, Team Lead of Gaming at Toon Boom, will be participating in a 30-minute session on Thursday, March 5 from 2:15pm–2:45pm at the Unity stage. In this presentation, Bouchard will discuss how Toon Boom Harmony can be used by artists and animators to create stunning 2D game art. Game developers will learn how Toon Boom Harmony easily integrates with Unity for the development of multiplatform 2D games.

For more information, contact info@toonboom.com.

About Toon Boom Animation Inc.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. (toonboom.com), a Corus® Entertainment Inc. company and Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award recipient, is the worldwide leader in digital content and animation creation software. Toon Boom provides an innovative suite of applications and services to a community of gaming and animation studios, educational institutions, individual professionals, and many other markets.

About Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies (unity3d.com) is revolutionizing the game industry with Unity, the breakthrough development platform for creating games and interactive 3D and 2D experiences like training simulations and medical and architectural visualizations, across mobile, desktop, web, console and other platforms.

Copyright © 2015 Toon Boom Animation Inc., a Corus Entertainment Inc. company. All rights reserved. Toon Boom is a registered trademark and Harmony™ and the Toon Boom logo are trademarks of Toon Boom Animation Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.



            
Toon Boom Animation Partners with Unity Technologies at GDC 2015

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