Cambridge Animation Systems was a British software company that developed a

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software package called ''Animo'', and is now part of Canadian company Toon Boom Technologies. It was based in

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, England, hence the name. Established in 1990, it created the Animo software in 1992 after acquiring Compose in Color, which was developed by Oliver Unter-ecker. Animo was used for several animated feature films, shorts, and television series, and it powered the UK animation industry until the 2000s as it was used by studios like

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, Telemagination, and

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, but it was also used by studios in other countries, most notably Warner Bros. Feature Animation, DreamWorks, and

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. In total, Animo was used by over 300 studios worldwide. In 2000, CAS developed Animo Inkworks, a plug-in which allowed

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and

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users to export 3D data into Animo and integrate it into 2D animation via the Scene III plug-in. In 2001, they developed another plug-in called Animo Sniffworks, which exports Flash output to Maya. In 2009, CAS was acquired by Toon Boom Technologies and has since folded.(8 January 2009)
Toon Boom Acquires Cambridge Animation
WN Retrieved 28 January 2009.

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