TVPaint Animation 10 Pro 10.0.16 (64 Bit
Phillipp Schneeberger
TVPaint Animation (also known as TVPaint, TVP, Bauhaus Mirage or NewTek Aura) is a 2D paint and digital animation software package developed by TVPaint Developpement SARL based in Lorraine, France. Originally released for Amiga in 1991,[1] version 3.0 (1994) introduced support for other platforms.[2] In 1999, the last Amiga version 3.59 was released as free download.[3][4] TVPaint Animation currently runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android operating systems.
Aaron is currently animating a short film , Snow Bear . He has been doing a series of livestreams showing his process of animating in TVPaint. This is a great way to learn, by watching a master animator at work. (it's like you get to look over his shoulder to watch him animating).
After several years spent at Blue Sky Animation Erin was recently laid-off from Blue Sky with everyone else because Disney is shutting down Blue Sky ? (that is NOT the happy ending) , but I saw on a Facebook post he made that he just got picked up as an animator on the Bob's Burgers Movie. (that's the happy ending !)
One of the advantages of programs like Harmony or Flash (Animate) is that you can draw or make notes outside of the main drawing stage or camera view. You can do that with TVPaint, too, but you have to set it up properly when you start a New Project. It's also useful to have this extra border area to adjust the Camera fielding if you need to pull-out or push-in a bit , or shift the camera east/west or north/south.
When you're working on the animation at full size , you can zoom-in the project window so you're not seeing the margin areas with the notes , but whenever you need to check the notes or add notes , it's easy to zoom out the interface to see the margins around the Camera field.
If you were to create a Project With Camera View that is sized up at 120% you'll have less margin area to work with for adding Notes, etc. , but it can be enough. I find that usually a ratio of 160% - 200% is more comfortable for me.
The students at the Gobelins School continue to produce beautifully crafted animated films, most made with TVPaint , including this one , "COLZA" made by Victor Chagniot, Camille Broutin, Matthieu Daures, , Victoria De Millo Gregory, , Maxime Jouniot, , Jade Khoo . (be sure to watch in Full Screen mode at full 1080p HD quality. Turn captions ON to see English subtitles)
The animation and coloring was done in TVPaint, the backgrounds painted in Photoshop and the final compositing was done in After Effects. (Although you can paint the backgrounds directly in TVPaint many background painters are more familiar with Photoshop , but you can easily import Photoshop .PSD files into TVPaint ... and also export artwork created in TVPaint as a .PSD file to take it into Photoshop. TVPaint has a special script available to Export your animation from TVPaint to After Effects, which keeps all of the layers and exposures intact. This allows for animating and coloring in TVPaint, then moving the whole scene over to After Effects to add additional compositing effects.)
Burn Out directed and animated by Ccile Carre , additional animation by Valentin Lucas (EFX Animation) and Joel Durand. Made at GOBELINS, l'cole de l'image and California Institute of the Arts.
It is often difficult to precisely simulate the traditional methods with digital programs such as TVPaint. You are more or less simply "scrubbing" back and forth along the Timeline to view your drawings in rapid succession . It's not exactly the same as working with paper, but it can get close. Read further to see how you can refine this process.
In TVPaint you can use your pen stylus (or mouse) to scrub along the drawings on the Timeline. That's the most basic way of doing it. Many times that is what I do . It's simple and direct.
But there's more you can do than simply scrubbing the Timeline with your stylus or mouse , or using the Right and Left arrow keys to go to Next Frame and Previous Frame or CMD Right and CMD Left to go to Next Drawing and Previous Drawing.
You can also set IMAGE MARKS on your drawings and set up keyboard shortcuts to only flip between drawings with Image Marks. Let's say you mark your KEY/EXTREME drawings with a RED mark . Then if you set keyboard shortcuts for Next Image Mark and Previous Image Mark , it will only flip from Key to Key (image mark to image mark), skipping over the frames between the marked drawings.
There are other adjustments you can make to fine-tune the Flips function in TVPaint , but that's the basic set up that works for me. As I look back over what I wrote above , it reads more complicated than it is . Once you have it set up , it's easy.
Also, having the Flips options set up like this does not disable the basic functions of using the RIGHT and LEFT arrow keys (with or without the CMD or CTRL modifier) or simply scrubbing across the Timeline with the stylus . It's possible to switch back and forth between the different methods rather effortlessly once you have your keyboard shortcuts set up and memorized and you can more or less hit those shortcut keys automatically , without having to think much about it (this comes through repetition)
If you don't want to use the Flips shortcuts and only need to flip from Key to Key , you can adopt a simpler system of Bookmarking each Key and setting shortcuts for Next Bookmark and Previous Bookmark to flip between them. See TVPaint User Manual section on Bookmarks. The default shortcuts are Ctrl Shift Right for Next Bookmark and Ctrl Shift Left for Previous Bookmark, but you can assign those to other keys if you prefer.
I thought I'd get back into posting here by mentioning a nifty new keyboard shortcut in TVPaint 11.5 : 'Close/Restore All Drawers'. I have mine set to "J" because it was an unassigned key. You can assign the shortcut to whatever key you prefer .)
This shortcut allows you to instantly CLOSE (Hide) the side storage Drawers and the Timeline , then click it again and instantly RESTORE the Drawers and Timeline giving you access to the toolbars stored in the Drawers and access to the Timeline. But whenever you don't need the Drawers or Timeline to be visible , just press the button to instantly "declutter" the interface to focus on drawing with nothing else in the way.
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Yes, however, I should mention that this course does not teach the concepts of animation, but rather shows you the tools and methods for animating with the software. Check out our Animation Foundations course for the basic principles of animation.
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I use 1280x720 because it's just easier that way if I ever want to use an animation in a new demo reel or publish it on YouTube or Vimeo. Plus things just look better in HD. 8D Of course, the bigger your animation is, the more mistakes people will see, but you have the option of changing the size when you export it later on, so at this point, it's better to work big. TVP is great for exporting things; all the gifs in this tutorial were made straight from TVP.This is my workspace (click to embiggen):
Since first opening TVP, I've closed a lot of the windows is has open by default and have created this one out of necessity. The only one I still have open that I don't really need is the Tool Bin (the one with all the fancy brushes) because I seem to remember some classmates closing it and not being able to get it back and I've just been too lazy to save it, heh.
BRUSHES:One of the most important things to have when working in TVP is a custom tool bar. All you have to do is right click in any of the other tool bars and go All Panels > New Tool Bar. (If you're loading a tool bar, create a new tool bar first, otherwise it will load and replace that tool bar that you right clicked on). From there, you can right click in it and save your brushes. I have a bunch of different sized pencil brushes as well as hard and soft erasers.TVP is dumb with erasers because there's no... eraser. You have to set your brush to erase mode, which is really... It's just easier to create a tool bar with different brushes/erasers. (:Shoot me an email if you want to give my brushes a try: not-quite-normal at hotmail dot com I will send them to you. C: It's pretty fun to play around with all the brush settings though, so you'll find some that you like soon enough.
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