TIP: Click the “Lightbulb icon” in the top toolbar to turn on the virtual light table and access the onionskin feature. To quickly “flip” between your drawings, use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. All of this, by the way, is user customizable to suit your needs. You can also adjust the opacity of the images and even the line color. With TVPaint you have none of those limitations! You can easily see up to 10 images before or after the frame.
Unfortunately though, you are limited to only being able to see five drawings at a time. We would put a drawing between each of our fingers and roll them back and forth in order to see the movement. Flipping is achieved through sitting at our desk with our drawings on the pegs. When flipping drawings in 2D, we could only see small segments of our shot at one time. This is an area where digital animation has a big advantage over pencil and paper. One really well thought out feature of TVPaint is the light table. Turn on the “Onion Skinning” to Access the Light Table FYI: Clicking the “Ctrl + K” keys will bring up a complete shortcut menu. This will “Clear” the drawing and allow you to create a new image (or “instance”). TIP: To make a new drawing, move the playhead in the timeline to where you want to be and click the “Shift + K” key or click the “Skull” icon. Again it’s all about pose and attitude at this point. The idea is to hit the key frames where they will generally fall along the timeline of the scene. As you will see in the video above I move quickly from key pose to key pose and sketch those in quickly. When roughing in a scene, I am trying to quickly get down the pose and attitude of the character. You can also create your own brushes and even import Photoshop brushes if you wish, but for most of my purposes the built-in pencils are perfect. They’ve gotten their look, feel, and pressure sensitivity dialed in just right in my opinion. Now it’s time to start drawing frames! TVPaint has some wonderful built in pencil tools. This is like having the best of both worlds. The developers of TVPaint also thought to include a “Timeline Notes” area above the dialog track, so you can make handwritten notes about the scene right in the software. With a little practice it will become very evident where the mouth should be open and where it should be closed. Well in TVPaint, you are able to “see” the sounds via a visible waveform indicator. Not only was that very time consuming, it was also very tedious. As animators we would use this to know what frame we had to have a character making a particular mouth shape. It was actually someone’s job to listen to all of the audio of the film and write down what frame number the word sounds fell on. Bye, Bye X-Sheets – Hello Waveform!įor many of you this is probably something you take for granted, but in the old days, to animate dialog we had to use what were called exposure sheets (aka “x-sheets” or “dope sheets”). If you are familiar with video editing programs like Adobe Premiere or Final Cut this is a very similar concept. Once you set the In & Out points, you can “scrub” through the timeline, hear the dialog, and begin to animate. This is essentially telling TVPaint how many frames the scene will be. Once you import the audio track you have to set “Mark In” and “Mark Out” points. ) Early character design sketches by Aaron Blaise of the ancestral ghosts in “Mulan.” I designed and animated the ancestral ghosts and he did an excellent job voicing the main ancestor. (Side note: I had the opportunity to work with Mr. First I imported the audio which was a recording of my son Dustin doing his best George Takei impression. In the video example above I animated a quick little bit of animation of a lion character. Aaron Blaise prefers to work big in TVPaint. It’s worth noting though that the frame rate and resolution are all settings that you can adjust to suit your needs. Also, since I am typically working on film projects, I work at 24 frames per second. This helps me achieve the feel of drawing on the large 16 field animation paper that we typically used in my Disney days.
TVPAINT LIGHT TABLE FULL
I like to use TVPaint in full screen mode on my Wacom Cintiq. There are often many ways to do the same thing and each animator may have their own preferences, but for me, these things get the job done. Just like Photoshop, TVPaint is deep, robust software. First off, I want to stress that this is my approach to using the software.
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