Movie Maker Hollywood Pro · 2D Animation
2D Animation: Puppets, Automatic Lip-Sync and Hand Drawing
Make a cut-out series, a storybook film or hand-drawn effects in the Animate tab. Puppets lip-sync themselves from the dialogue, drawings and puppets live in the same scene, and everything renders frame-exact.
What you can do
Cut-out puppets
Rig characters from parts with pivots, head turns, expressions and swappable drawings, or import a layered Photoshop (PSD) file.
Automatic lip-sync
Type the line and mouth shapes are keyed to the voice automatically, then fine-tune them in the dope sheet.
Reusable actions
Walk, run, jump and idle cycles play by themselves, and your own actions can be reused across scenes.
Hand-drawn animation
Draw frame by frame with onion skinning, exposures and layers, and turn a drawing into a character.
Multiplane camera
Layer backgrounds at different depths for real parallax, with keyed pans, zooms, dollies and camera shake.
2D effects
Sparks, smoke, dust, rain, snow, magic, confetti, portals, speed lines, impacts, speech bubbles and animated text.
Vector drawing kit
Shapes, pen paths, booleans, gradients, textures and symmetry for characters, props and backgrounds.
Character and set generator
Generate consistent rigged characters and multiplane locations from a style, so a cast stays on model for a whole series.
Transparent output
Frame-exact PNG sequences with alpha for compositing.
Questions
Can I import characters from Photoshop?
Yes. Layered PSD files become puppets: groups become parts and mouth layers become mouth shapes. It reads 8-bit RGB files; layer masks and blend modes are ignored.
How good is the lip-sync?
It keys English mouth shapes from the line’s words, timed to the voice. Fast speech can drift by a syllable, which you fix in the dope sheet.
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