Animate the camera in OpenToonz to create an Instagram video

[@DarrenTAnims]

*Thanks for watching.* Have you animated the camera before? Will animating the camera be useful to your animations?

[@Mike_Walker21]

Dear Darren: I've animated the camera, thanks to you (and for much more). I have a problem, though, and I hope you can help me or direct me. I have Windows 10, and have not rendered a color animation for at least a year. It worked fine then. Now, though, on the same computer, when I render an animation or a still figure, the separate levels become translucent, and the drawings from different levels show through all the others. I have reinstalled FFMPEG, reinstalled OT several times, and have tried rendering on both 1.5 and 1.4. Can you help me? Thanks very much -

[@DarrenTAnims]

I'm not sure what that could be. I'd need to see your schematic and render settings to be able to help. I'm sure it's fixable though. If you're a member of my Discord community, you can share screenshots there or send them to me privately.

[@Mike_Walker21]

@@DarrenTAnims Thanks very much for the quick response! Since the rendering works on all the other computers in the house, I think it must be some fundamental disagreement between my computer and the program. For the moment, I just take the animation upstairs and render it on my mac.

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@Mike_Walker21 If that works for you for now, then carry on, but if you have time later to share a few screenshots, I think we can get to the bottom of it. All the best

[@MariaVargas-bw4wb]

Thank u. uve been a huge help. ive been stuck on this for the past 2 hours

[@DarrenTAnims]

I'm glad I could help 😊

[@gasjebasje99]

Thanks man. I wanted to animate from a VHS ratio, because it seemed retro. This is exactly the info I needed.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Great. Glad this helped

[@kamius1]

Great tutorial to learn camera basics in Opentoonz. Thank you 👍👍.

[@DarrenTAnims]

😀👍

[@fendiarfi]

thanks its verry helpful

[@DarrenTAnims]

I'm glad you found it useful

[@onkarchoudhary2269]

Super

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks 😀

[@Toadstoollll]

love you

[@DarrenTAnims]

😊👍

[@candycandy5654]

this video is super helpful thank you for taking the time to make it

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks. I'm glad it helped 😃

[@ssjin3dibujosmangaanime878]

I love how you explain, I also use it on a drawing layer sometimes

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. Yes, animating separate columns is really useful and can help to add parallax effects.

[@bee2718]

wonderful as always 😀.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you 😀

[@glyveozone7303]

goated

[@DarrenTAnims]

[@ngutngut40]

Nicely done Darren.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks :-)

[@cutty3542]

thank you darren.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Cheers Cutty

[@konradm.7972]

nice

[@DarrenTAnims]

Cheers 😊👍

[@techsupport3709]

I am your big fan sir I wanted to lear opentoonz. From beginning

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. I really appreciate that

[@edenskylormeus]

Hey Darren! Will I have to render it any different or will the mp4 file fit Instagram using the common opentoonz rendering process?

[@DarrenTAnims]

You don't render it any differently. Just check the size of your output matches the Instagram recommended size.

[@edenskylormeus]

@@DarrenTAnims thank you for your help!

[@kassachap]

First woop wopp! Hope everyone is all good!

[@DarrenTAnims]

First again! You're quick off the draw 😀

[@kassachap]

@@DarrenTAnims It's because I'm animating right now! I haven't used the camera mode yet, but i am doing lip syncing!

[@DarrenTAnims]

Excellent. I'm planning another lip sync guide specifically for a Tahoma2D in a few weeks, to convert the built in lip sync tool.