Relationship Between OpenToonz and Blender

[Zachary Brown]

Hi,

Blender and OpenToonz have some significant overlap, as blender's "grease pencil" tool becomes more and more a generalized 2D animation tool.

Blender and OpenToonz also share the whole non-overlapping-window approach to UI, plus having separate 'rooms' with different layouts for doing different activities.

Do the blender and OpenToonz developers talk to each other? Is there any sense that the two projects might one day interoperate? Is there a list of blender features that OpenToonz developers know they want to incorporate into OpenToonz?

Or, contrariwise, is there a list of blender features that the OpenToonz developers know they definitely want to avoid in OpenToonz?

And, even more contrariwise, am I completely missing the true nature of the feature overlap, and it actually has something to do with other software in the animation space, instead of blender? Is there actually something out there that serves more or less as a 'model' for future OpenToonz development?

Be well,

Zack

[Rodney]

While some developers (one in particular with a focus on Linux) have moved back and forth.... 

No.  There isn't much overlap.

[joshua shute]

I remember when opentoonz was originally released, a blender developer used the way opentoonz makes strokes in a blender addon to improve spline creation which I believe is now implemented into blender. soooooooo somebody made use of the open-sourcey-ness of it all.

love both programs.

[natraj kamboj]

Good, mee too

[Chris Z]

I agree. Open source powers should join forces to help each other (if that makes sense). 

But everyone don't forget that it can be more problematic if both tools have different approaches. 

My production lab is researching on open source software such as Blender, Open Toonz, Krita etc. We want to find a way to better manage assets, shots and tasks across different open source packages people can become more productive.