Bitmap brushes

[Pierre LE COUVIOUR]

Hi!

First of all, thank you for making Opentoonz better every day!

I use to animate on tvpaint, and I want to know if it is possible to create bitmap brushes, with textures and grain, in Opentoonz, or if a such function is in development?

And is it possible to create vectorial brushes, like the one called "chalk", with pixels?

Thank you for your answers!

Pierre

[TurtleTooth]

MyPaint brushes are being added to OpenToonz raster levels.  You can try them here: https://morevnaproject.org/opentoonz/

[Pierre LE COUVIOUR]

I tested them, and they are really cool, but I was thinking about creating brushes myself

[Rodney]

There is a topic somewhere around here where I describe the process of creating and adding our own custom brushes.

They aren't anything special... just images saved in the brushes folder... but they do work.

I was mostly concentrating on vector brushes at the time.

For optimal results I recommend opening one of the current brushes, editing that in OpenToonz and saving that with a new name.

This will ensure the scale is right.  I created a few brushes that were too large and that didn't work so well.

So, the process:

Open Brush image as a Level from the OpenToonz brushes folder

Edit image

Save under new name

Restart OpenToonz

In the Style Editor go to the Vector Brush tab and look for the new brush

Select, change color etc.

Creating a brush that has adjustable settings on the Settings tab (such as with the MyPaint brushes) is beyond my comprehension so I can't assist with that.

[Rodney]

This request is very close to being fulfilled AND technically is complete via the OTX and Morevna releases.

As for creating custom brushes (both vector and bitmap) we have several methods available to us:

MyPaint Brushes (for use with bitmap/raster images)

In addition to editing one of the many MyPaint brushes supplied the MyPaint application itself can be used to edit and create brushes.

Of note.  Almost all of the variables used in the MyPaint application are available via the Settings tab in the Style Editor.

The primary things lacking in the OT implementation are the icon editor (useful for creating custom icons for our brushes) and the ability to add those new brushes easily to the MyPaint LIbrary.  The MyPaint application has a means to automatically update the library with the new brush.

Vector brushes

Perhaps the most straightforward way to create a new vector brush for use in OpenToonz is to use OpenToonz to navigate to the vector brush library, open a current brush, edit that brush and then save it back in the folder under a new name.

Other brushes (standard bitmap)

While the MyPaint brushes are likely to be the desired approach for creating new brushes another way to create bitmap brushes would be to edit a current brush and save it under new name in the appropriate directory.

We need to add a few links to this topic that relate to creation and use of pens and brushes in OpenToonz.

Here's one on usage in OpenToonz by the developer of that functionality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_lD654uAZ4

Here is a series of video tutorials on use of MyPaint to create new brushes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUrs02n7Lvw