Animation Quick Tip 2: Using Masks for Shading in Toon Boom

[@MarsFromEarth1]

7:06 ~ 9:18 the useful part of the tutorial

[@lunaria_annua_4444]

THANK YOU.

[@CalamityStudios]

Finally a method where no nodes are involved! Thank you so much for making this!

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

CalamityStudios I'm so glad you found it useful!

[@glinker9972]

E I’m watching this and I don’t even have toon boom Still dreaming tho

[@CartoonPizza64]

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! Thank you so much!!

[@cascottage]

a great way to do this is shading with a completely solid color and then lowering the whole layer's opacity! gives room for details!

[@phiisme3565]

"no worries, it's probably just because your parents don't love you" lmao thank you for making me laugh in the middle of a minor anxiety attack while I was watching this vid

[@phiisme3565]

ps quality tutorial 10/10

[@Divio18]

It doesn't work for me... First of 'effect' isn't even there, had to get cutter from node library, and when I actually applied my duplicate layer as a mask it didn't change anything except the opacity. The shadow didnt cut neither out or in the character... I'm confused

[@cloudver2366]

I know its late but i tried to do a little tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpK6oZ2nebKmars

[@kolamlava]

@@cloudver2366 this tutorial helped me a lot thank you !

[@IANPUZONdotART]

@@kolamlava This frustrated me a lot but I found the workaround from another of his videos in the comment of Toebiscuit: In Harmony 16 add a cutter node by: Node view > RMB > Insert > Combine > cutter > or .... open Node Library > Combine > Cutter > drag to Node View

[@foxliasgriffinYT]

effects? i dont see an effect option on my toonboom

[@alexhill9376]

thankyou so much! really needed this

[@turtlescream7]

cheers for making this

[@tunafish1982]

THANK YOU.

[@LPSAllyawesome]

Question, how do you get smooth strokes? I know how to make smooth lines with the brush tool, and it looks great, but whenever I want to shade, I usually use the stroke tool. The problem is that my stokes are all wobbly and not smooth while my line art is fine. So how do I smooth my strokes like it has more control?

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

Like the brush tool, the stroke tool has a smoothing feature, although it works a little differently. I would try fiddling with the "smoothness" setting in the tool options. I usually have mine around 3 or 4 but I recommend experimenting with it. Too little and your lines can look wobbly, too much and you lose precision.

[@LPSAllyawesome]

Ah, thanks. I was not aware that there was a smoothness control! Now I know what I'm doing haha!

[@NotLegato]

that's very useful, thanks.

[@Dragonaiis]

you can go to 2x speed and still get all the info just fyi

[@Vundang]

can you please tell me? where can I enable the effects in add layers? because there nothing on my timeline no effects at all here only sound, drawing, quad map, peg, cinematic output, group bone, camera, colour card and Bone only are here PLease tell where can I FInd the cutter effects without using nodes

[@GangsterGans23]

same problem, did you find a solution?

[@Vundang]

@@GangsterGans23 yup HAHA I explore some thing I duplicate the layer drawing ang paint all drawings with black ang cut you want to be shadow and I adjust the opacity, i think this is much easier

[@IANPUZONdotART]

This frustrated me a lot but I found the workaround from another of his videos in the comment of Toebiscuit: In Harmony 16 add a cutter node by: Node view > RMB > Insert > Combine > cutter > or .... open Node Library > Combine > Cutter > drag to Node View

[@HEPTAKE]

the fuck was that intro XD!! Lol

[@lacroustillenecroustillepl2637]

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@letomaneteo]

Does the cutter work with areas inside stroke lines? I can't trim lines that go beyond the stroke. For example, make a TV from lines, and inside an image from lines. And that the image was inside the screen. How to do it? Only by hand or is there a way?

[@incernpakistan]

v.usefull although parents dont love me

[@andyrazi10]

changed the speed to 1.75.. now I have like a world war veteran teacher

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

Haha yeah, that's the recommended way to watch my videos. I never claim to be good at speaking ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@hilde105]

Thank you! This helps a lot ^-^

[@Jarbloko]

At last!!!, Thanks

[@BendoTheMonster24]

perfect tutorial.

[@susantabibian1701]

Tysm

[@izzatismail9976]

It cut my object😭

[@SashaKalashnikov]

lmaoooo very inspirational

[@ForceAnimations]

For frame by frame animation is it better to use mask shading or using the stroke tool to shade?

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

Force Animations It sort of depends on what you're doing. This method can get a little tough with complicated shapes. I think I would generally personally prefer the stroke tool just because it's simpler, but it also takes more planning. This method is most useful with something like my silly walk animation, which has a shape (the woman's body) that is separated into sections of different color my clothing, but the shadows are all uniform and should affect them in the same way. This also makes it so you can go back and add shadow into an already completed animation which is nice. It's really just a matter of opinion though.

[@NYANJI-1]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! It's so helpful!! My shading is pretty bad atm but this helps a lot! But can I ask you how to save a file so you can import it into imovie?

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

file > export > movie

[@NYANJI-1]

TheDiscoNarwhal thank and you!!

[@NYANJI-1]

TheDiscoNarwhal though I don't see movie anywhere

[@NYANJI-1]

Wait it worked, I made my animation in 12 fps but when it exports it is 24 fps/ Do you know how i can change it?

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

Hmm, that's strange, it should keep the same frame rate, but yes there is a way to change it. In the "export to quicktime movie" window, click "movie options" at the bottom. Then in the "movie settings" window under the video section, click settings. Then in the "Standard video compression settings" window under the motion section, there will be a drop-down menu for frame rate where you can select the frames per second.

[@punkandrockgirf]

How do you import your video into Harmony when you use the rotoscope technique?

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

go to file > import > movie and select your video file. (I believe it has to be a .mov file type)

[@alpha8here]

I MISS YOU AF! Whats up? :D

[@alpha8here]

Great tutorial btw. :)

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

I was busy with school for a while, but the semester just ended!

[@alpha8here]

Sweet! I hope you had an AWESOME day. :D Btw. Your art style. It reminds me of this gruesome comic a friend sent to me. You know, a child using his mother's intestines as a swing set, a lady drinking poop, etc. You know of that comic?

[@alpha8here]

Dude, can I add you on Facebook too? :D

[@TheDiscoNarwhal]

Oh sure, why not.