4 Easy Steps to Auto-Inbetween Animation in OpenToonz and Tahoma2D - 'tweening

[@DarrenTAnims]

*Thanks for watching.* Q. How have you used the auto-inbetween tool? And in what animations do you think it would be useful?

[@gtstv9547]

Can you do camera Angela's in thoma2d also how to save facial expression in the fx flooder

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@gtstv9547 you can move the camera, positioning it left /right or up /down and zoom it in and out.

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@gtstv9547 I'm not sure what you mean about the fx. But your drawing levels are all saved separately and you can re-use them in other scenes.

[@gtstv9547]

@@DarrenTAnims fx is the lights etc, and you put diffrent mouth in ever slot

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@gtstv9547 I know the fx can be used for lights, glows, blurs and other special effects, but mouth shapes aren't used in effects. I've got a few videos about creating lip sync that might help you.

[@rogerkelly4550]

You are THE source for learning OpenToonz. Could not have done anything without your videos.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you Roger. This is much appreciated. If you have any requests for future videos, do let me know.

[@babubillions499]

Thank you darren! Even though I knew about this I still watched. The writing of the steps on the side is very helpful.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks Babu. I still see users asking questions about this tool, so I wanted to try to make it as straight forward as I could. The 4 steps made sense. I might make something a little more complex with this feature in the future, just to show the possibilities.

[@seeker1602]

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[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. I really appreciate you saying that. If you go to my channel page, by clicking on my name below any video, you'll see a number of playlists. There's a beginner's playlist there with the most common and most useful videos there. You'll also see a few other popular subjects in their own playlist. But if you want a more organised view of learning OpenToonz, you can take a look at my course on Udemy you can see the full list of lessons (and watch some for free) by owing this link. This link will give you the best price: discord.gg/FYy4Mg7

[@quevinquinvulafrancisco2653]

Thank you very much 🙃

[@DarrenTAnims]

😀

[@chimera8428]

For some odd reason, Te inbetween button doesn't show up on my level frames. Do you know how to fix this?

[@DarrenTAnims]

The #1 reason this happens is when you're not using a vector level.

[@peacelove3828]

is there a site that has premade rigs of characters,places, and thigs like that? where a person can download them and change it and play with it?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Not really. There is a My Little Pony rig that you can download and play with. I've got a video showing how to do so, if you search on my channel.

[@Georges_Tsukaimah]

Ty for the explanation. Your amazing like always.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you Georges 🙂

[@katappamama007]

Sir your English is verry fast. I am not good in English. So sir please talk English a little bit clear and slow. Because no body make opentoonz tutorial in Hindi language. And I am watching your video to learn open toonz. Thank you

[@DarrenTAnims]

It is fast, yes. That's something I'm working on to improve; to both slow down a little and to be clearer. I'm getting better each video (you should watch my early videos!) :-)

[@katappamama007]

@@DarrenTAnims love you sir love you. I love your personality. You are a verry good person. Everyday I am watching your videos. Because I like you.🙂

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@katappamama007 Thank you my friend. That's lovely of you to say.

[@griggy535]

Modern players have a speed control. I use it to slow down Darren's speech. Try it!!

[@cinemagic.ensoeyfilm]

Hi! It seems like my version of opentoonz is slightly different... The inbetween button doesn't appear when i select all the drawings in the level strip. Is there an other way to do this? Thank you for the great video!

[@DarrenTAnims]

That's the only way to do it. Be sure that you're creating a vector level as this only works on a vector level.

[@cinemagic.ensoeyfilm]

@@DarrenTAnims Thanks for your quick reply! I will try again... Your videos are a big help!

[@goldenslime2527]

Nice video I didn't know that you can do in between like this

[@DarrenTAnims]

It's sick a useful feature. The inbetween frames don't always behave as you'd expect, but they're a great shortcut.

[@rontarrant]

Hi Darren, I was experimenting with the 1's, 2's, and 3's buttons, but each time I click on one, Tahoma2D crashes. Any suggestions? (Other than "don't touch those buttons." 🙃 )

[@DarrenTAnims]

That last point is a great suggestion 😀 I'd first say to make sure that you've selected some cells to change. You could try to option in the context menu. Select your cells, right click, choose Reframe and change the number of drawings there. If that doesn't work, then it's probably worth logging a bug (from the Report a Bug option in the Help menu). Include a screen recording and as much information as you can. I've just tried it and it works fine for me, with the latest build. So there's something about your computer, your setup, your build or your project that's causing this issue.

[@rontarrant]

@@DarrenTAnims Oops! I see the error of my mistake. I had cells in the camera track selected, not the vector track. Still, it shouldn't crash because of this, so I'll log it as whatever-it's-called-when-it-isn't-a-bug-but-is-still-annoying. Thanks for the reply!

[@SSegal]

Very informative video. Do you know a way to link the parts that shouldn't separate, like a leg from a foot, so you could move them similar to the way you would with the skeleton tool? Would this technique work using the tape tool?

[@DarrenTAnims]

You can select a number of lines, right click and choose, Group. Then using the selection tool works on all of those lines together.

[@aprogress2374]

Unfortunately, it's does not work like Synfig when working with vector. We need to generate inbetween manually (click this click that) instead just create keyframe on timeline.

[@DarrenTAnims]

That's right. It's not like Synfig. I hope that one day it will be. It was investigated and was working up to a point, but that was a couple of years ago. Fingers crossed for it improving at some point 🤞

[@WOAHVODS]

I want to make Levels interact is there a way i can see the rest of the scene while auto inbetweening?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Unfortunately the auto inbetweening only works from the level strip, so you can only see the 1 level at a time. I would love it if they made this work in the timeline. They would be a huge time saver.

[@ARIADNARB]

Could you please help - how can I paste some frames between existing frames in timeline? I am working in Tahoma 2D and I do not understand how this works

[@DarrenTAnims]

Does Paste not work for you? Does the image not appear where you want it or doe it not appear at all?

[@ARIADNARB]

@@DarrenTAnims when I want to do inbetween frame betwen two frames I am unnable to add blank file - only duplicate of previous. This is in raster layer. Maybe there are some hotkeys for add blank frame between two frames?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Yes there are. Alt+D on a blank or extended frame. It's shown in the context menu too. So was it a blank frame that you wanted, not a copied/paste frame?

[@ARIADNARB]

@@DarrenTAnims Now I understand about blank. But how to paste another frame betwen two frames? For ex I want to paste frame 17 between 12 and 13. Should I copy at first frime 17 and step on 12 frame and paste? But then I paste on 12 frame, not between them It is hard to me understand how to working with worksheets in OT - it is unable to move frames along to timeline. So if I want certain frame move from 10 position to 45 position - I should cut it on 10 position and paste on 45 pos, but if I want to move 10 frames?

[@DarrenTAnims]

That's a lot of questions there. I need to make a video about using the timeline - there's a lot of detail about this in my Udemy course (links in the description of every video). You can cut/copy/paste as you'd expect from any other program. Or you can click and drag the frames by dragging the darker part of the cell. You can highlight many cells and do this. Plus you can hold Ctrl or Alt to insert/overwrite the cells already there. I believe there's a description of this in the online guide.

[@MrNitinShakya]

Thank you

[@DarrenTAnims]

Glad it helped

[@csproduction6310]

I need help it wont work every time I try it wount

[@DarrenTAnims]

If you can give me any details here I can try to help. Or if you join my Discord server (link in the video description) and you'll be able to share screenshots, videos and we can have a more interactive chat.

[@bulbultv.digital]

Thanks

[@DarrenTAnims]

😀👍

[@Mihimal]

Sir, is this also available in Raster ?

[@DarrenTAnims]

No. I mention that I'm the video and the video description. It can't be used in raster levels because you move vector control points to define the changes.

[@Mihimal]

@@DarrenTAnims Got it 👍

[@katappamama007]

Love you sir love you from India. Where you from

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. I'm from Nottingham, England.