Toon Boom Studio V3.5 Guide

Contents......Page 3
About Toon Boom Studio......Page 11
User Interface: Drawing and Importing Media......Page 12
User Interface: Sceneplanning and Animating......Page 15
Creating and Gathering the Content......Page 19
Adding the Sound Track......Page 21
Changing the Sequence and Timing of Drawings and Images......Page 22
Sceneplanning and Animating Elements......Page 24
Exporting......Page 25
Animating Cut-Out Style......Page 26
Drawing Cut-out Characters......Page 27
Sceneplanning Tools and Cut-out Characters......Page 28
Reusing Cut-out Assets......Page 29
New and Improved Features in V3.5......Page 30
About the Documentation......Page 33
Document Conventions......Page 34
Studio Basics......Page 35
Launching Toon Boom Studio......Page 36
Creating A New Project......Page 38
Opening An Existing Project......Page 39
Opening Tutorials......Page 40
Accessing Web Resources......Page 41
Saving Animation Projects......Page 42
Setting the Animation Frame Rate and Camera Size......Page 44
Selecting Preset Animation Properties......Page 45
Adding Scenes to a Movie......Page 47
Changing the Background Color of a Scene......Page 48
Renaming Scenes......Page 49
Showing/Hiding Scenes......Page 50
Deleting Scenes......Page 51
Saving and Loading Window Layouts......Page 52
Customizing Toolbars on MacOS......Page 54
Changing the Background Color of the Drawing and Camera View Windows......Page 55
Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts......Page 57
Selecting Units of Measure......Page 59
Configuring Video Card Display Options......Page 60
Drawing......Page 63
Creating and Navigating Drawings and Drawing Layers......Page 64
Drawing Line Art......Page 65
Drawing in the Drawing or Camera View......Page 67
Drawing Straight Lines, Ellipses and Rectangles......Page 68
Drawing with the Polyline Tool......Page 69
Drawing Brush Strokes......Page 70
Drawing Pencil Lines......Page 72
Converting Centerline Shapes to Brush Strokes......Page 73
Creating Text......Page 74
Formatting Text......Page 75
Changing Text Color......Page 77
Converting Text Into Separate Objects......Page 78
Working with Selections......Page 80
Grouping Drawing Objects......Page 81
Ordering Drawing Objects......Page 82
Resizing, Flipping, Rotating and Moving Drawing Objects......Page 83
Changing the Center of Transformation......Page 84
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Drawing Objects......Page 86
Deforming a Drawing Object......Page 87
Changing the Color of Brush Strokes, Fills and Centerline Objects......Page 88
Changing the Thickness of Centerline Objects......Page 89
Optimizing Drawing Objects for the Web......Page 90
Converting Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines......Page 91
Reducing Drawing Layers with the Optimize Command......Page 93
Reducing Drawing Layers with the Flatten Command......Page 94
Removing Points with the Smooth Command......Page 95
Merging Layers Using Draw Top Layer......Page 97
Cutting and Erasing Drawing Objects......Page 98
Using the Scissor to Cut Parts from Drawing Objects......Page 99
Erasing Parts from Drawing Objects......Page 100
Using the Cutter to Separate Regions in Drawing Objects......Page 101
Modifying the Shape of Vector Lines......Page 102
Reshaping Centerline Shapes......Page 103
Reshaping Brush Strokes......Page 104
Adding Points to Vector Shapes......Page 106
Deleting Points from Vector Shapes......Page 107
Setting Up Your Pens......Page 109
Creating and Removing Pen Styles......Page 110
Modifying a Pen Style......Page 111
Setting Up Your Drawing Space......Page 112
Displaying the Drawing Grid......Page 113
Rotating the Drawing Space......Page 115
Onion Skin: Displaying the Next and Previous Drawings......Page 117
Setting Onion Skin Options......Page 118
Static Light Table: Displaying Selected Drawings......Page 120
Changing the Display of Objects in the Static Light Table......Page 121
Auto Light Table: Displaying All Images in a Frame......Page 123
Zooming and Panning the View Window......Page 124
Importing Artwork......Page 127
Importing Static Images (Bitmaps)......Page 128
Creating Transparent Bitmaps......Page 129
Vectorizing Bitmaps......Page 131
Importing Illustrator and PDF Files......Page 133
Importing Flash Movies......Page 135
Repositioning All Drawings......Page 136
Scanning, Importing and Vectorizing Bitmaps......Page 137
Inking and Painting......Page 141
Coloring Your Toon Boom Studio World......Page 142
Swatches......Page 143
Adding a Swatch......Page 144
Changing the Color Values in a Swatch......Page 145
Creating a Gradient Swatch......Page 146
Changing the Transparency of a Swatch......Page 148
Naming a Swatch......Page 149
Setting a Bitmap Swatch to Tile or Stretch......Page 151
Painting Zones in Your Drawings......Page 153
Painting a Zone with a Solid Swatch......Page 154
Painting Zones with Gradients and Textures......Page 155
Editing Gradient and Texture Fills......Page 157
Copying Gradient and Texture Fills......Page 160
Power Painting Drawings in an Element......Page 161
Picking a Swatch from a Line or Zone......Page 162
Unpainting Zones/Line Art......Page 163
Manually Closing Gaps......Page 165
Auto Gap Close Options......Page 167
Inking Line Art......Page 168
Managing Your Colors with Palettes......Page 169
Copying a Palette......Page 170
Deleting a Palette......Page 172
Creating Multiple Palette Styles......Page 173
Renaming a Palette Style......Page 174
Deleting a Palette Style......Page 175
Offsetting Colors in a Palette Style......Page 176
Blending a Color into a Palette Style......Page 178
Importing Palettes......Page 180
Exporting Palettes......Page 181
Adding Sound......Page 183
Importing Sounds......Page 184
Event and Streamed Sounds......Page 185
Playing the Sound in Your Animation......Page 186
Editing Sounds......Page 187
Changing the Start or End Frame of a Sound......Page 188
Trimming the Start and End of a Sound File......Page 189
Looping a Sound......Page 190
Fading the Sound In and Out......Page 191
Viewing the Waveform in the Exposure Sheet......Page 192
Customizing the Playback Range......Page 193
Lip Synching......Page 194
Sound Scrubbing......Page 195
Changing the Lip Assignment of a Sound......Page 196
Automatically Mapping Lip Sync Drawings......Page 198
Adding Lip Sync Notes......Page 199
Recomputing the Lip Chart......Page 200
Laying Out Elements in 3D Space......Page 201
Using the View Windows......Page 202
Zooming and Panning View Windows......Page 204
Switching Views......Page 205
Selecting Elements......Page 206
Repositioning Elements......Page 209
Changing the NS/EW Position of an Element......Page 210
Changing the FB Position of an Element......Page 211
Defining an Element’s Layering Order......Page 212
Scaling Elements......Page 213
Changing the Scale Pivot Point Position......Page 216
Rotating Elements......Page 218
Changing the Rotation Pivot Point Position......Page 220
Animating......Page 223
Animating Elements with Pegs......Page 224
Adding Peg Elements and Attaching Child Elements......Page 225
Building Peg Hierarchies......Page 227
Displaying Peg Hierarchies......Page 228
Using Keyframes and Timeline Properties......Page 230
Adding Keyframes for Motion, Rotation, Skewing and Scaling......Page 231
Tweening Motion or Maintaining Constant Values Between Keyframes......Page 232
Copying and Pasting Keyframe Values......Page 235
Copying and Moving Frames in the Timeline......Page 237
Pasting Selected Frame Properties in the Timeline......Page 239
Changing the Duration of a Peg Element......Page 241
Looping a Peg......Page 242
Animating Rotation with the Rotate Tool......Page 244
Animating Size Changes with the Scale Tool......Page 247
Animating Skewing with the Skew Tool......Page 250
Creating Motion Paths with the Motion Tool......Page 252
Creating a NS or EW Motion Path......Page 254
Creating a FB Motion Path......Page 256
Adding Motion Points to a Motion Path......Page 258
Adding Motion Points with the Motion Point Tab......Page 259
Moving Motion Points with the Motion Point Tab......Page 261
Deleting Motion Points from a Motion Path......Page 263
Locking/Unlocking Control Points......Page 264
Adjusting the Curve Between Motion Points......Page 265
Defining the Default Tension, Continuity and Bias Values......Page 266
Animating with the Transform Tool......Page 268
Repositioning the Pivot Point of the Transform Tool for an Operation......Page 270
Building Peg Hierarchies to Animate Cut- Out Characters......Page 272
Positioning Pivot Points on Cut-Out Characters......Page 274
Editing Functions Using the Function Editor......Page 276
Adding Keyframes and Changing their Values......Page 277
Reshaping the Plotline Using the Function Editor......Page 279
Changing Your View of the Function Editor......Page 281
Using the Multiplane Camera......Page 283
Camera Effects with Toon Boom Studio......Page 284
Adding Cameras to a Scene......Page 286
Positioning a Camera......Page 287
Zooming the Camera In or Out......Page 291
Zooming the Camera Over Time......Page 293
Changing the Start Frame and Duration of a Dynamic Camera......Page 295
Editing the Dynamic Zooms with the Function Editor......Page 297
Panning and Trucking the Camera......Page 299
Creating Effects......Page 301
Additive and Multiplicative Color Changes......Page 302
Additive Color Changes......Page 303
Multiplicative Color Changes......Page 304
Changing Color Over Time......Page 305
Adding/Removing Keyframes from a Color Transform......Page 307
Flattening a Color Transform Effect Layer......Page 308
Combining Multiple Color Transforms......Page 309
Clipping Mask Effects......Page 310
Creating Clipping Mask Effects......Page 311
Modifying Masks......Page 313
Drop Shadow Effects......Page 315
Creating Drop Shadow Effects......Page 316
Organizing Elements and Timing......Page 319
Exposure Sheet and Timeline Windows......Page 320
Showing/Hiding Elements......Page 321
Displaying Selected Elements Only in Sceneplanning Views......Page 323
Adding Element/Cell Notes......Page 325
Viewing Cell and Element Notes......Page 326
Changing the Cell Display in the Exposure Sheet......Page 327
Resizing Columns in the Exposure Sheet......Page 329
Changing the Color of an Element......Page 330
Changing the Default Colors of Elements......Page 331
Changing the Timeline Track Color......Page 332
Changing the Timeline Zoom Level......Page 333
Changing the Current Frame in the Timeline......Page 334
Displaying Feet and Frames in the Timeline......Page 335
Splitting the Timeline Window in Two......Page 336
Layering Elements......Page 337
Adding Many Elements to a Scene......Page 338
Changing the Layering Order of Elements......Page 340
Renaming Elements......Page 343
Duplicating Elements......Page 344
Cloning Elements......Page 346
Sequencing and Timing Drawings and Images......Page 348
Labelling Cells in the Exposure Sheet......Page 349
Inserting a Range of Numbered Cells......Page 350
Changing the Timing (Exposure) of Drawings and Images......Page 352
Swapping Drawings in an Element......Page 354
Inserting Blank Cells in an Element......Page 356
Inserting Blank Frames in a Scene......Page 358
Naming and Renaming a Cell......Page 359
Cutting, Copying and Pasting Cells......Page 360
Creating Cycles......Page 361
Creating Advanced Cycles......Page 363
Clearing a Drawing from a Cell......Page 365
Deleting Cells from Elements......Page 366
Re-using Content......Page 367
The Library Window......Page 368
Previewing Content in the Library......Page 370
Re-using Drawings and Images from the Current Animation......Page 371
Creating Templates......Page 372
Editing Templates......Page 374
Importing Multimedia Files into the Library......Page 375
Deleting Templates......Page 376
Viewing a Template’s Properties......Page 377
Defining the Author and Copyright of a Template......Page 378
Using Templates......Page 379
Copying a Template into Your Animation......Page 380
Copying Selected Template Contents into Your Animation......Page 381
Linking Templates to Media Elements......Page 382
Cutting, Copying and Pasting Linked Media Content......Page 383
Using Paste Special to Update Content from a Template......Page 384
Creating, Renaming and Deleting Catalogs......Page 386
Creating and Renaming Libraries......Page 388
Loading and Closing Libraries......Page 389
Configuring Global Library Storage......Page 390
Playback and Rendering......Page 391
Previewing a Scene Interactively......Page 392
Setting the Playback Range in the Timeline......Page 393
Real-Time Playback......Page 394
Exporting Your Movie......Page 396
Exporting Drawings to PDF......Page 398
Index......Page 399