Mastering OpenToonz: Discover the hidden potential of the selection tool vs the animate tool

[@tomdoingart]

Great video Darren, entertaining as always. I saw you mention these things: Selection Tool - edit within a single drawing, changes are permanent. Animate Tool - edit the exposures on the timeline/xsheet, keyable, changes are non-destructive. So using one or the other depends on the context. Change a drawing, or change a sequence of exposures.

[@DarrenTAnims]

100% correct. Great summary 😀👍

[@cherrydragonet]

this is so good. deserves more views

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you 😊

[@hestedroschen]

Best intro ever!!!

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks buddy. It was fun to make. I'm not sure what my neighbours thought about me shouting through it a few times 😁

[@truusolja91]

I know 😅

[@Mihimal4]

Keep going, we support you sir! Please continue making more Tutorials 🥺❤

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. I've got some fun plans for upcoming tutorials :-D

[@Mihimal4]

@@DarrenTAnims Sir, I want to make animations like in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5K2oZSpbs2KhLM Can I use Opentoonz for it?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Regarding the question about the animation video you shared. Absolutely you can make that in OpenToonz.

[@MJWolverine21]

I was scratching my head to find any difference between them and when to use which one. but thanks to this the difference is crystal clear to me now.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Fantastic. I'm glad this helped 😀

[@hestedroschen]

Nicely put - I would have liked you to show the 3D camera view on the animate tool while rotating!!😊

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks. You wouldn't have seen much more in 3D. The rotation is all in the same plane.

[@DarrenTAnims]

*Thanks for watching* Animate in parallax: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4jGfpKubbijqqc What other tools are similar or confusing to you and you’d like to see battle it out? Let me know below

[@AwkwardPain]

nice refresher for those who are getting back into the program :) Also, you make a good announcer!

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks AP 😁

[@Ролтун]

I don like brush size slider. In my opinion it will be good to have diffrent number brush size preset, like 1, 1.5, 3, 6.2 .. what user could customize himself. So you can click to needed number and change the brush size. Do you like idea? Maybe you could suggest it to OT developers if you have contacts. 2) Also color numbers shoud start from 1 not from 0. To use hot keys obviously. And maybe choosen color should change its form. Myabe round instead of rectangle to easy understand what choosen color. Hello Darren!

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks for your feedback. 1. You can already save presets using the + - buttons at the far right of the options bar. They'll then appear in the dropdown that's next to them. 2. I know a lot of users find it confusing that numbers start from 0, but the reason is because colour#0 isn't a colour you can change and it's actually an "erase" colour. So the colours you can adjust and use as colours do start from 1.

[@Ролтун]

@@DarrenTAnims Thank you Darren. Have found preset though it is not so obvious

[@Hagrid123]

Amazing, thank you! That’ll save me ALOT of time!! I’d love to see a vector vs raster levels video. I’m currently using vectors, but not 100% sure if it’s the best for my needs or not.

[@DarrenTAnims]

That's a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion

[@UnModern]

Thank you this new knowledge of the animate tool will be every useful

[@DarrenTAnims]

Awesome. Thanks for watching

[@pixel_dank]

Your videos are amazing I love watching them, keep going

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you my friend. Although my next video *could* be my last, for a little while. Stay tuned

[@MS-hk8qy]

Very nice explanation ❤

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you

[@Barbeque_Sauce_1234]

...I spent at least two hours wrangling the Free Distort FX to align a hexagon with an assistant-generated box-with-perspective, and this whole time I had a much easier way of squishing that hexagon. The Free Distort is probably better in the long run because it's non-destructive and I can edit the underlying shape and still have OT fake the same perspective, but dang, all I wanted was a guide.

[@DarrenTAnims]

I'm glad this helped (assuming it did)

[@Barbeque_Sauce_1234]

@@DarrenTAnims It did help, yes. Thank you.

[@OreoO0O]

Absolutely epic As usual Darren ❤ Love the intro so much 😂😂❤ One quick video about some useful effects in schematics Fx please.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thank you. And making the intro was fun, as you might have noticed in the video 😆 I've made a few videos about the effects. You can see them in an effects playlist on my channel. Are there any effects in particular that you was interested in?

[@OreoO0O]

@@DarrenTAnims Not a particular just a general use For now I'm only good at "matt" effect in adding shadow and the glow effect And thanks to you I've learned both

[@animatedentertainment4534]

@@DarrenTAnims eu sofro um problema, quando eu uso o Load as sub-Xseet para pegar o que esta em uma sena anterior quando eu fiz projeto dessa sena , e nessa nova sena quando altero, eu altero a anterior tambem, o que eu faço??

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@animatedentertainment4534 Se sua sub-folha foi criada no mesmo projeto, então você estará editando os mesmos níveis, então você obterá este comportamento. Se você quiser uma cópia do sub-xsheet ao adicioná-lo, você deve adicioná-lo a outro projeto e escolher Importar. --- Q. I have a problem, when I use Load as sub-Xseet to get what is in a previous section when I made the project of this section, and in this new section when I change it, I change the previous one too, what do I do?? A. If your sub-sheet was created in the same project, then you will be editing the same levels, so you'll get this behaviour. If you want a copy of the sub-xsheet when you add it, you have to add it to another project and choose Import.

[@trishaber7532]

If you right click on canvas, there is an option called "vector guided drawing" Could you please explain about it? And please explain about "Range" Option in brush tool on Vector level,

[@DarrenTAnims]

Vector guided drawing is a little hard to explain, but would make a great video. And so would the range option. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll see what I can do.

[@trishaber7532]

@@DarrenTAnims okay thank you so much!

[@Reekachuma]

What? You could shear with the selection tool? I've needed this for so long, thanks.

[@DarrenTAnims]

Yes you can. I'm glad it helped. I find the corner shear sooooo useful.

[@Crystalshot]

Does opentoonz have a way to render an image with transparent background

[@DarrenTAnims]

It does this by default. If you don't add a background and render to a format that allows transparency (png, gif, webm), you won't have a background.

[@Crystalshot]

@@DarrenTAnims ooh thats very nice 😊👍 thanks

[@Crystalshot]

@@DarrenTAnims no It saves it with a white background with png

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@Crystalshot then either you've added a background or have an imported image with a background.

[@norabodonyi5175]

I love your videos, I learn a lot of them. But it would be easier to understand them without music in the background.

[@DarrenTAnims]

I've tried music on some videos and not others. Mostly, I don't include music. Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Andnow3]

Hi Darren, Every time we import images in colour model, it creates color samples, can we turn of that? As we import few images turn by turn, there will be a no. Of colors makes difficult to find the preferred one. Thanks

[@hestedroschen]

Could maybe even have you state how many colours you would like retracted to the palette. But I get your point. What you could do instead is tho grab the individual colors you want in your palette with the "new" eyedropper. I you hold down ctrl and drag a square it will even be able to find the average color. Which is very useful when trying to find the right colour in a dithered image.

[@DarrenTAnims]

That's a great question. But my question to you is, what are you using the colour model for? The point of importing an image there is to be able to add the colours from the model into your drawings. If you just want a reference, use another viewer instead. Does that help?

[@Andnow3]

@@DarrenTAnims What is that viewer's name?

[@Andnow3]

I guess i found it, Thanks for help.

[@SilentGaming-SG]

8:50 no anything up here shown

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks for pointing this out. I've added the link now :-)

[@mikhailhumphries]

Great intro 😂

[@DarrenTAnims]

😁 Thank you. It was fun to make

[@Mihimal4]

Sir can you make a video about Opentoonz Morvena edition?

[@DarrenTAnims]

There's not a lot different to talk about with Morevna. Plus, they've discontinue working on it, so there'll be lots of bugs in there that have already been fixed in OpenToonz, so I really wouldn't use it if you don't have to.

[@Mihimal4]

@@DarrenTAnims Thanks for these information sir ❤️

[@Mihimal4]

@@DarrenTAnims sir, does latest version of opentoonz has a horizontal timeline?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Yes. It's had one for 2 - 3 years

[@SilentGaming-SG]

Where is the magic section tool😅

[@DarrenTAnims]

Sadly, there's not a magic selection tool in opentoonz.

[@SilentGaming-SG]

@@DarrenTAnims 👍

[@kassachap]

Ha great intro Darren! And are you looking for a new career?? :)

[@DarrenTAnims]

😆 Thanks. Making this video was a lot of fun.

[@keshavvanjara]

Even mobile apps are better than 😂 this software

[@DarrenTAnims]

Why do you say that?

[@JstJaybeingJay]

Name one.... I'll wait. Open Toonz is a really powerfull software I don't think any mobile apps can match it.

[@Mihimal]

I guarantee that you don't know the actual potential of this software.