I believe so (except for the folders as shown in the second half of the tutorial ; foldera are only available in TVPaint 12). I don't think layer blend mode options have changed since version 10 , so you should have the option in version 10 (TVPaint Pro) to set layer blend modes to Behind (for the upper layer/layers) and to Erase blend mode for the Fade layer between the upper layer(s) and lower layer(s) . I don't have TVPaint 10 to test it with it, but I think you can do this in TVPaint 10. (at least in the last iteration of TVPaint 10, which was 10.5.7 ) Also, I can't remember , but did TVPaint 10 Pro have the Project view with individual Clips (for the purposes of storyboards/animatics) ? I don't remember if that was a feature that was introduced in the latter part of 10.5's life or it was introduced in TVPaint 11 ? I think it was present in TVPaint 10.5.7 , which was the last version of TVPaint 10 I can remember using. Anyway, this tutorial is not intended for TVPaint 10 , but is intended as a tutorial for TVPaint 11 and TVPaint 12 , so maybe I should not have mentioned in passing during the video that I think it would also work in TVPaint 10 (or TVPaint 9) because those versions are pretty much irrelevant at this point.

@@david_t_nethery_animator thanks.

Quick question: 2: When working in TVP12 do you find it buggy at all compared to TVP11?

@@Ruldolphmaker Yes, a bit buggy. I've been told there will be a bug fix version of 12 released soon.

I've used an Epson WF adf scanner. They work fine , but all of these type of scanners will jam now and then , in my experience. Try to make sure the paper isn't too wrinkled and be sure it is placed into the ADF tray as neatly as possible (edges squared up). Don't overload the ADF tray , scan a large scene in smaller sections of 20 - 25 drawings at a time, then reload the ADF tray with the next section. I wouldn't put a stack of drawings in the ADF and just walk away . Keep a close watch on it and if it jams try to turn it off immediately. If it really crunches up a drawing badly I have used an iron (on very low heat setting) to iron the drawing flat again (iron it on the back side). I never had to do that much. I guess for rough animation I would tend to use a downshooter (copystand) with a HD webcam to capture the drawings one frame at a time . Then use the scanner for the clean-ups (although clean up drawings can also tend to get bent and wrinkled on one side from excess flipping/rolling.

The period and comma buttons allow frame by frame on KZbin videos

@@johnjoeparrot Thanks stranger, that is a very useful tip!

The fact that this was from 70 years ago, & looks so buttery smooth compared to a lot of animators nowadays makes this even better.

Please keep pushing man. You can overcome.

Don't forget Green Eggs & Ham.

@@retrolord8546 I will edit the comment, accordingly

how come there shouldnt be any artwork from the fleischer productions that you are mentioning?

@@scoutart1508 If i'm not mistaken, The original cels from the cartoons were eithr washed over, Or caught fire later. As for the backgrounds, pencil drawings, stereoptical sets, I can assume that they just didn't have the foresight to preserve them.

@@gunier.j.kintgenanimations You are correct that many times cels were washed and reused. Or simply thrown away. The same with drawings. Often the studios who owned the original artwork considered them expendable after the final inked & painted images were captured on film. (the recognition of animation as a collectible art form was still in the distant future at that point) . The surviving cels and drawings from the "Golden Age" of animation are because some individual artist who worked at the studio saved them. The original Popeye drawings shown in the pencil test belong to an animation collector in New York . The scans of those drawings were loaned to me to make the pencil test posted above.

@@gunier.j.kintgenanimations cels and paper drawings are two different things.

@@david_t_nethery_animator The scanning of these pencil drawings proves that this is a recently produced "Pencil Test." Again, Pencil Tests were not in use at Fleischer Studios in 1933. They did not start using them until they entered the production of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS in Miami. This was introduced by the West Coast Animators in 1938, and was in place from then on. There are many Pencil Tests for the Popeye cartoons produced after that.

So, as a rule , the image quality you will get by video capture from a downshooter is not as good as image quality from a scanner. Video capture from a downshooter is used only for line testing , but usually the quality is not high enough for final images that will be colored and composited with backgrounds. And Scanning is much FASTER than shooting drawings one at a time on a downshooter (as the video above demonstrates). However, for line testing (pencil testing) capturing drawings directly from a downshooter (using an HD webcam or a DSLR) is possible in TVPaint using the Video Input function in TVPaint. *NOTE: currently TVPaint's Video Input only works on Windows , the MacOS version of TVPaint does not have Video Input because of changes that Apple made to MacOS and how it interacts with cameras. TVPaint Development is aware of the problem and they say it is on their "to-do" list to fix the problem, but as of right now , Sept. 16, 2023, the Video Input is disabled in the MacOS version of TVPaint, but it still works on the Windows version. The usual method of video capture is to use an HD webcam as the input device. On Windows there are also some third-party apps that will allow you to capture images directly from the live feed of some models of Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. Elgato Cam Link 4k. and SparkoCam are two of those third party apps that I've been told will convert the live feed from certain Canon and Nikon DSLR's into a video signal that works with TVPaint Video Input on Windows. I'm also told that Canon's EOS Webcam utility will work. (I have not personally tested these apps with TVPaint because I am on Mac, not Windows).

@@david_t_nethery_animator That's really interesting, thanks for that, yeah I guess I'll hold off from getting a Mac at the moment, I was going to make the switch. I know most studios now just draw directly digitally on the cintiq or with the Apple pencil, but I wonder if someone skilled at drawing could with the pencil and paper still work as fast as someone digitally, a few top animators in Japan I remember just a few years back were still using pencil and paper, not sure though what they used to test the animation, or what kind of scanners I know they wouldn't want to waist any time, but what you're showing here is really cool.

In the past I've used Digicel Flipbook , but it's a much simpler program than TVPaint , not as many features as TVPaint, so not really a fair comparison. For what it was, Digicel Flipbook was "ok'", but not great, imo. It worked pretty good as a video capture system for traditional pencil on paper animation captured with a digital video camera or webcam. Unfortunately, the tech support for Digicel Flipbook on MacOS (which I use) has been lacking for several years . Digicel Flipbook has never been updated to run on a modern MacOS since the release of Catalina (4 years ago!). Digicel Flipbook does not work on MacOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura. So Digicel Flipbook is irrelevant for a Mac user using a current MacOS. It seems like after 4 years if they were going to update it they would have done it by now. XP Pen tablets should work with TVPaint , but I've never used an XP Pen tablet so I would suggest you verify with both XP Pen Support and TVPaint Support that your model of XP Pen tablet is compatible with TVPaint. Something you can do is register an account on TVPaint.com (free to register) , then you can download a free Trial Version of the software to test it with your XP Pen tablet.

Yes, on mine the Canvas enlarges to fill the areas formerly occupied by the side drawers and also the timeline. I'm not entirely sure why your remains the same size. Are you on Windows or Mac ? (not sure if that makes a difference, but it's a place to start troubleshooting). This might be better solved if you posted about it on the TVPaint Community Forums.

Make sure you have the Auto Fit button enabled before you press the 0 key to hide the timeline. With Auto Fit enabled the drawing area will expand to fill the space where the timeline gets removed. Auto Fit button is the second button at the lower right edge of the project window. (There are three buttons there: the first one is Reset Zoom to 100% , the second button is Auto Fit , the third is Enable/Disable Video-In , then the Display menu. )

@@david_t_nethery_animator thank you so much !! do you know also why my "play button, zoom in and the rest tool of the bar are not there? When I put inlay view is not there but the auto fit works, and when I put the other view the auto fit does not work ? xD thanks!

@@stassfm100 I know what you're talking about , that happened to me before , too. Again, if you could post about this on the TVPaint forum it would be easier to show you with a screenshot how to fix the problem.