5 essential tips BEFORE animating with OpenToonz

Here's my top 5 tips for things to do BEFORE drawing with OpenToonz.
They will make the program more stable, work quicker and be easier to use.
Useful links:
Adding OpenToonz directly to your graphics card panel: • Setup 3D card to fix r...
Setup FFMPEG: • How to render GIF & MP...
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Update your drivers
0:49 High Performance Mode
1:31 Project Location
2:48 Keyboard Shortcuts
3:29 Setup FFMPEG
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[@goldenslime2527]

I didn't skip the ad to support you even more

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks GS. Top supporter 😍

[@randall-thehorrorwriter]

Thanks for all the videos I just got into animation with O.T. I was using Krita before this, I really only do short ads for my books (I write horror) and O.T. has so much more to offer than Krita. Can't wait for the Automated Lip-Sync video once I can master that my book ads will be on another level.

[@DarrenTAnims]

It's such a simple thing to use once you've set it up. It's great. You will likely have to edit the created lip sync though, but it certainly gives you a head start.

[@phyynproductions]

I can't thank you enough for this video! I ended up upgrading but it kept crashing on me over and over.This made me realize and discover my amd graphic settings weren't even properly set or updated, nor the performance modes and such after fixing all that, I've had no issues whatever! I've tried multiple animation softwares and I like opentoonz the best, through I id love to adapt the layout of it with the brush settings in clip studio

[@DarrenTAnims]

I'm so glad this helped. I've been wanting to make this video for a while, to share some of the common issues I've heard about.a

[@livemyw0rld]

Love the videos man. These tutorials are always some of your best, friend.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you buddy 😊👍

[@tomdoingart]

Another thing I do when updating is set things up in the antivirus. I use Norton Antivirus and Firewall so there is a series of things I update whenever I download to run a nightly build. I tell the antivirus about the new executable so it can run, so it can access it's files, and to ignore the reputation score because it is so new. I typically also block access of the app through the firewall because I already have bookmarks in my browser to check things like the manual and to see what updates are available. There is also the Windows Defender check on first run where it warns that the application is new, like a reputation check. I click through the "run anyway" path when that appears.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Great tip. Thanks for sharing Tom

[@DarrenTAnims]

*Thanks for watching* Do you have any initial setup suggestions that will help other users?

[@KookooruzArt]

Great info, thank you!

[@DarrenTAnims]

😀 Glad it helped

[@msbreadner2634]

Nice video, there's on thing I was wondering about and that is pen synchronization, when I draw the lines im trying to stop how the lines show up once I lift my pen after a scribble, I want the drawing to be in sync with my hand.

[@DarrenTAnims]

It sounds like an issue with your tablet. Maybe check if there's a newer tablet driver available that could help.

[@kassachap]

Another cracking video 😁

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you buddy. I hope it helps. I can't believe that I was so busy with friends today that i forgot to post it till so late!

[@scalandres1696]

Hi , during 0:50 High Perfomance Mode I messed up with finding OpenToonz among different system files so I selected to search for it directly and grabbed it on my Desktop so after I finally set "High Perfomance" I couldn't start OpenToonz because of an error that System can't find glut64.dll. EDSDK.dll. and etc.... .dll. And it says that for solving this problem I have to reinstall OpenToonz though exactly these dll files are already on my computer in OpenToonzstuff . If you have any ideas how I can fix it please let me know because I haven't thought of anything better than to put OpenToonz near Opentoonz stuff file so it could find it

[@DarrenTAnims]

I don't know why changing to high performance mode would affect the dlls. I've not seen that before, but if you get one of these errors: The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found. The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140.dll was not found Installing "Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Update 3 RC" might help. Here's a link for it: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685 OpenToonz complains about missing: glut32.dll. glut32.dll is included with OT install but sometimes expects it in a different place. Copy "C:\Program Files\OpenToonz\glut32.dll" to "C:\Windows\SysWOW64".

[@scalandres1696]

@@DarrenTAnims No, this tip is really helpful and It has nothing to do with my error, it is just that I changed Opentoonz location to be on my desktop to find it on the list because I didn't know it affects anything at all (I was always using the Shortcut before)

[@sweatyvolleyballaceboy8430]

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[@DarrenTAnims]

👍

[@sajlavaldosa7608]

I can't wait to support you for your good work, but still I'm not off the ground!☹

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. But that's fine. Just knowing that these videos help is reward enough for me 😊

[@koffeekage]

nOw yOu TeLl MeE!

[@DarrenTAnims]

It's never too late to do them 😀