TVPaint Animation
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TVPaint Animation Video Tutorials
Diese Tutorials (in englischer Sprache) richten sich an TVPaint Animation Neulinge, die zum ersten Mal mit TVPaint arbeiten.
Folgende Einsteiger-Tutorials stehen zur Auswahl:
Your first Drawing with TVPaint Animation
Your first Animation with TVPaint Animation
How to use the drawing tools of a conventional animator
How to colorize a character
Your first Drawing with TVPaint Animation
This first tutorial will allow you to learn the drawing basis of TVPaint Animation. We are going to study how to:
- use the most common drawing tools,
- choose the colors,
- modify or delete a picture.
1) Starting the software
Let's start by clicking on the software icon on your desktop. The following panel appears:
For the moment we are not going to use a specific configuration.
By the way, use the Reset Configuration button in order to follow this tutorial with the original configuration of the software. Once this operation is performed, click on the OK button.
Unless otherwise specified, it is advised always to reset the configuration before starting a new tutorial.
2) Drawing & Erasing a picture
As soon as the software is loaded, you can immediately sketch into the drawing window using the stylus and graphic tablet.
The result appears immediately, as if you were using a real drawing tools on a real paper. Just try it!
In the example above, the user has drawn some mountains.
If you need to erase the contents of the drawing window, you only need to click on the erase icon of the main panel. This icon looks like a small picture with a skull and bones (you can also use the shortcut key [Shift + K]).
3) Changing the drawing tool
Now look at the tool panel. Every icon displays a painting tool with its own parameters. The current tool (here: the pencil) is yellow highlighted:
Changing the drawing tool is very easy: you only have to click on the tools that you want to use. Hereafter, there is a small sketch created with the mechanical-pencil:
4) Choosing your colors
By default, you are drawing with the color located on the left box of the color picker. This color is called A Color. The color located on the right of the color picker is also called B Color.
Those colors are visible on the bottom-left the main panel too.
By default, the A Color is black. You can change it by moving the sliders located newt of it.
Note that using the right mouse button on a color of a slider bar will bring immediately the slider to this color.
You can also modify the numerical field to obtain the needed color:
If you want to change the B Color, you have to firstlyclick on it in the color picker. Then you only have to use one of the three discussed methods above.
If you need to change the A Color again, you only have to select it again.
5) Swapping A & B Colors
A and B Colors are often needed: for example if you are creating a gradient of colors, or using animbrushes in luma color mode, etc... It is possible to swap them by using the [n] shortcut key or by using the encircled button on the picture below.
This is very convenient for users that often use the same color. For example, you can keep the black color available in order to draw the outline of a painting.
6) The history of colors
Once you draw with TVPaint Animation, the history of colors you have used is accessible by using the left mouse button on the encircled area above:
Here we are: you know how to choose your tool, how to erase a picture, etc... you are almost ready to begin your drawings!
7) Do, Undo & redo
Here are a few useful notions to make you draw more easily.
To begin, try to remember that the icons Undo and Redo of the main panel will allow you to find again the steps of your drawing. That is very convenient, especially if you make a mistake while painting...
8) An other way to erase
You can erase a piece of your picture, as if you were using a real eraser. In order to perform this, you have to select the Erase painting mode of your current tool ([F4] shortcut key).
If you need to turn back into the classical Color mode, you can use the same pull-down menu or the [F2] shortcut key.
9) How to use your stylus
You can adjust the radius, the power and the opacity of almost every tools, but that is not all: if you have a stylus with a tip and an eraser, you can assign a tool to each of them.
For example, you can use the oil brush in Color mode with the tip of your stylus and the airbrush tool in Erase mode with the eraser.
10) The classical painting tools
Since we have just finished to discuss the drawing basis, it's now time to try the various tools at your disposal.
Here are the rendering of the pen brush and the air brush tools:
Here the pencil brush and the mechanical pencil:
And to finish the wet brush and the oil brush:
Now it is your turn to create TVPaint logos! Feel free to use all the tools at your disposal and don't forget to share your results with the TVPaint Community!