(Opentoonz Tutorial) Simple Puppet Animation

[@OwOw_it_Lily]

Even without trying to be in-character, your voice is adorable. :3

[@StraveTube]

7:16 I love the tiny hint of panic as you switch your pronunciation of GIF. Great tutorial video, thanks!

[@yavalang]

Just diving into Opentoonz, your tutorial is very helpful, thanks.

[@Kiwimasterpiece4]

Same

[@beamerboy5888]

How's it going?

[@anwar5129]

Hey! I have just decided to start learning animation, and after a lot of searching I chose opentoonz, how are you guys doing

[@spare1981]

as soon as I find my headphones imma use the hecc out of this

[@spare1981]

@not a banana probably bc I couldn't use the tutorial without headphones

[@mrpalmer6971]

I know I'm 4 years late but solid explanation, thanks heaps for doing this!

[@JuliaFliess]

Dude this is so useful!! I love your tutorials 0v0

[@mrcucombre_]

What if it doesn't give the suggestion to save the file as a gif or an mp4? How can I make it save as such?

[@beterraba_wojak]

Actually, you can export as PNG with a transparent background frame by frame, and with any video editing software, you can put everything together to make an animation.

[@theworldexplained6695]

The best complete tutorial and especially the last green screen part was awesome as I have been searching out ways to rander a transparent background in opentoonz so that I can easily use my characters many times.

[@growingwithblake4625]

Great explanation, takes out a lot of guess work and motivates me to jump into animating!

[@jahnocli]

You should make more Opentoonz tutorials. This was clear and well constructed. Very helpful -- thanks.

[@azularrr]

help me. im new to opentoonz and for some reason it wont allow me to use plastic tool because of the strip level?

[@blaizegottman854]

I just discovered this and I love it I love learning about animation like a professional animator .

[@vividyon]

THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH THANK YOU.

[@mikejoe3551]

I don't seem images when I drag and drop them into opentoonz.

[@Jam_Axo]

started opentoonz yesterday, thanks for the help!

[@cjgilbert5197]

Just curious, what software do you use to create the drawings that you imported to animate. Is there a way to create a drawing in opentoonz that you can then just animate from there? I've been trying to find ways to do that but I keep getting error messages saying that the plastic tool can not be applied to a column. Any thoughts and help would be great!

[@SwerveAlec]

I drew the pieces in Sai. If you're looking for something free, Krita is good, but there are a lot of other good free art programs. Did you press "Create Mesh" before trying to animate with the Plastic Tool?

[@UltimatePerfection]

You can draw directly in OT, though I use Krita for stuff like concept art or character reference sheets.

[@ayuhafsari]

I'm still a new born baby in using Opentoonz.

[@changbinmybeloved]

this is the best tutorial I've encountered today. Thanks for making it looks easy to learn now! I managed to something like this after watching your video! again thank you !

[@user-co7oy9wt8m]

Bruv this helped me more then most tutorials on open toonz teach me more , great one

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Nice video. Clear and concise.

[@kookia213]

Been looking an entire day for this kind of video. Thank you alot man. top class video. I do wonder, do you have a video about how to make an effect of "talking mouth" for that kind of animation? (like.. same puppet only with talking mouth animation?). thank you once again.

[@UltimatePerfection]

You should move to Tahoma. It's an OpenToonz fork that contains a ton of bug fixes and some new features you may find useful. Most of your OT skills will transfer directly to Tahoma too, which is a nice bonus.

[@UltraMathi]

Thank you for the tutorial, it's incredibly helpful. Do you know if there's an option to "reset" the positions of the joints in the timeline ? I'd like to reset it if i ever forget to make a key beforehand.

[@milky4871]

Your voice is so adorable! ^w^ 💙💙

[@kino_ogun]

Dude that is freakn' awesome. Thanks!

[@robertcammack902]

Is this a raster level or a vector level? Great tutorial.Thanks.

[@SwerveAlec]

I imported the image so it's raster I guess. But you can make a vector layer and still do this kind of puppet animation.

[@PersonalityTurtle]

Cutest tutorial on the web yeet

[@zepharasite]

It doesn't let me put images.... Nothing works...

[@Millo_tonin]

I've been having the problem of the program just not loading or not letting me select anything, anyone know anything I can do to fix it?

[@tifahuynh4562]

Can you tell me how you can move the blink frame at 5:13? i couldn't move the frame on timeline

[@eyeliketowatch101]

I tried this and can't seem to get keyframes to work. Frequently if I change the skeleton in frame 9 e.g. it changes for all frames, even If I set a keyframe on frame one. But then sometimes it works. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason. Anyone seen that?

[@bayanihannetwork9312]

me too :( any help please

[@eyeliketowatch101]

@@bayanihannetwork9312 Actually I eventually figured it out. I was setting keyframes in the table. However it didn't work until I went into the plastic tool (X), then chose animate, then right click on the skeleton and set a global key frame / global resting key frame to start with. After that I was able to animate the skeleton. The keyframes should be visible on the table column for the mesh layer.

[@Bagelbytezz]

aaa thank you for this

[@InkAnimates]

I never knew, ty!

[@delusionalsenpaistudios1347]

Thank you soo much much simpler then Adobe.

[@qxi2856]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you!

[@cizhuh]

super helpful thank you

[@PeachesPreaches]

I somwhow cant safe it as a gif or as mp4 somebody know how to fix that? :/

[@lyamedia3095]

You need to have ffmpeg installed, the docs have a good tutorial for that opentoonz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using_ffmpeg_with_opentoonz.html EDIT: put the wrong link woops

[@Mohamed88Hassan]

That was rly helpful Can u tell me how to get 2d photos like that for free ?

[@SwerveAlec]

You can draw them

[@JuliusD]

ty for thisss i love ur work

[@KASSIND]

great bro!!!!😁😁😁

[@koji3565]

Okay so, I'm having trouble with animation. My character is just snapping by key frames and not smoothly moving how yours was, I followed step by step. Any advice?

[@mint1727]

i loved the video thx men

[@fixufixu5651]

can we have the lip sync tutorial in this animation with gesture and eyes blinking??? please :D

[@SwerveAlec]

Maybe I could do that sometime ^^

[@ItsChevnotJeff]

So to make things clear, when you build the bones, the image just bends according to it's direction? Edit: So, in trying to rig my own puppet, I keep heading into some problems, like my pngs disappearing once I move them, to them being too big that I would run into the first problem

[@U.O.S]

bart 2 please 🙏

[@itiller69]

Where did those eyelashes came from to make the blink

[@SwerveAlec]

I drew them as a separate layer?

[@1ooAnimess]

eu estou tentando criar uma animação, mas desenhar com mouse é complicado

[@Exsulator2]

Are there any premade files I can use to test this? Also for a full character that would use multiple rigged poses, what's the best workflow?

[@SwerveAlec]

I think the Level Strip window might be how people organzise their puppet assets? Sorry I really don't do anything too complicated so I can't help too much, I know there are other tutorials that go more in-depth though. Maybe they have some files you can test with too?

[@Exsulator2]

@@SwerveAlec okay thanks, I'll do some digging

[@U.O.S]

can I use opentoonz for motion graphics?

[@SwerveAlec]

It's got tweening and clipping masks and stuff. You totally could do simple stuff at least.

[@daniellemarcheterre7336]

Ummm. I have a question. How u add audio. I been struggling with this for a week.

[@SwerveAlec]

Just drag and drop your audio file onto the timeline. Maybe your issue is you're using an audio file that Opentoonz doesn't support?

[@daniellemarcheterre7336]

@@SwerveAlec idk what does tho

[@Exsulator2]

@@daniellemarcheterre7336 mp3 wav aif, I think

[@Gorish_Ethan]

This tutorial was very helpful, but whenever I try to export it says that there's been a error that says "The statement in the 0x0000... made reference to the memory in 0x000... The memory can't be read" and then when I click Okay the program closes. How can I fix this?

[@SwerveAlec]

Oh I'm so sorry I'm not sure. Maybe try reinstalling the software? Or make sure FFMPEG is properly connected when you export? Hope you figure it out!

[@InkAnimates]

Can u do this on krita by any chance?

[@SwerveAlec]

Krita doesn't support tweening as of right now. You can deform images with points, but then you'd have to manually deform every single frame which would take way too long and probably wouldn't look that good.

[@jamescharles5892]

SwerveAlec what about clip studio?

[@yuyucatx]

not related to the tutorial but your drawing style is so cool I love it

[@bearoyay]

Thanks man so clear and pleasant, you are vibing and I subscribed.

[@dimensionaldiscovery]

your voice is different and adorable listens like its from nose but sounds great

[@SamprazDoodles]

Nice tutorial that character reminds me of pinky and the rain I love the blue lineart

[@zavankan4796]

Does it have pre installed puppets or do you have to make it from scratch

[@averagebloe]

Finally found the tutorial I was looking for, Thank you for doing this!

[@youtoons]

How do I import my drawings to use as puppets? Tryting to transition to opemtoonz and can't find out how

[@Manuel_FM]

Just drag it , try Tahoma 2d

[@AkiyamaKuzia]

Thanks for video!

[@qingxinn_]

i cant render it as a gif? there isnt an option

[@UltimatePerfection]

you need to manually add ffmpeg (there's tutorial how to do this in the docs for ot) or just use fork of OT called Tahoma (yes, like the font and no, I don't know what the developer of Tahoma was thinking either). Actually, you should use Tahoma as all OpenToonz tutorials still apply (though the certain options may be somewhere else or be named differently) and Tahoma comes with a ton of bugfixes over OpenToonz and several nifty tools such as the perspective guides that make drawing easier.

[@bearthebit5790]

jif - w -

[@passaggi3991]

thank you , its help me soooomuch . Good luck

[@WickedInsomnia]

This was very helpful, thank you kind stranger.

[@firestoneproduction5105]

Very helpful! I will try tomorrow for the first time in my life!

[@shamzyrepha5163]

nice but my mesh only creat with the line

[@TottenLovesDrawing]

How did it auto put in the keyframe

[@valeria_cora]

+SwerveAlec Hi, is it possible to export with transparent background in Opentoonz, if exporting as a PNG image sequence?

[@SwerveAlec]

Yeah you can export a transparent PNG sequence. Just click PNG in the Render window when exporting

[@valeria_cora]

@@SwerveAlec Is this the only way to export with transparent background directly from Opentoonz? Thank you.

[@SwerveAlec]

@@valeria_cora I think so?

[@valeria_cora]

@@SwerveAlec Transparent MOV?

[@SwerveAlec]

@@valeria_cora I really dont know sorry ^^" I just always use transparent PNG sequences, sorry again ^^"

[@shounua]

omg!! i was like new in this app and u helped me a lot tysmmm

[@Sahil_Singh2311]

do u also have a channel named daniel kruter

[@MochiJelly4877]

I am gonna use this for a game mod

[@DDvargas123]

bwunni vibin!

[@SwerveAlec]

U

[@main4150]

hmm i cant add a png file for somereason-

[@Alex-wo1bs]

THIS IS EVERYTHING I WAS LOOKING FOR THANKS😭

[@misty2186]

:00000 tysm

[@Yellowhornproductions]

Hey this is a very helpful video. What do you use to draw your characters in?

[@SwerveAlec]

Mostly Sai but I use Krita for animations and vtuber rigs usually

[@KAPILANDPRANAVOFFICIAL]

Super

[@skibsthegoober2500]

opentoonz good

[@mtluya]

Nice,thank you!

[@zayaanmahomed4418]

Thx u make it so easy to understand

[@bakibullask6320]

I am facing a problem where some tools are not working . It says 'the current tool can not be used at a toonze level' Please solve it.

[@SwerveAlec]

What tools exactly? Some tools can only be used on a vector layer. You may have made a raster layer and tried to use those tools on the raster layer, so you'd have to make a vector layer to use those certain tools.

[@bakibullask6320]

@@SwerveAlec thanks

[@chulalachannel]

AAAAAA You are sooooooooo good!

[@lovebaking2503]

that's so cute!

[@kiranjames1]

which version are u using

[@kiranjames1]

in mine, some tools are not working

[@scottorpwood6777]

do you think opentoonz is the best to start with?

[@lyamedia3095]

I personally have been using it for a year and i can say it can be daunting for beginners. I recommend looking for more opentoonz videos before diving in, I recommend DarrenT the most, he even has a great discord server with animation challenges and help chats.

[@coffeedemon5942]

hi, i loved this tutorial and it was amazing! however, when going to render options, some file options arent available, the most needed one being .gif :(( how do i fix this, can someone please help me out :(?

[@SwerveAlec]

Gif should be there? You linked FFMPEG in Opentoonz, right?

[@coffeedemon5942]

@@SwerveAlec how do you link that x.x?? was that in the video????

[@SwerveAlec]

@@coffeedemon5942 you should just see an option in the render window, where you just link the FFMPEG.exe file. But it's been over a year since I've done this so maybe google a video for it if that's easier ^^"

[@coffeedemon5942]

@@SwerveAlec i cant find the correct FFMPEG file to download on their site, do you have a link i can follow that downlosds the .exe?? sorry im asking so much btw, but i appreciate your help!!

[@SwerveAlec]

@@coffeedemon5942 ffmpeg.org/ it should just be on there

[@nobody3938]

My mesh shifts a little bit to the right and therefore cuts pieces of the drawing. But the display before creating the mesh is correct. Can you help me fix that?

[@SwerveAlec]

Did you move the original drawing with the animate tool before making the mesh? I think when you do that, the mesh gets made where the image was when you imported it originally, but I'm not super sure.

[@nobody3938]

@@SwerveAlec No, I didn't. I only moved the eyes with the scale tool.. But is there a way to "reposition" the whole drawing?

[@SwerveAlec]

@@nobody3938 yeah you should be able to move the drawing with the animate tool in pretty sure? Maybe try that?

[@nobody3938]

@@SwerveAlec It worked! Thank you so much for the fast responses! :)

[@SwerveAlec]

@@nobody3938 glad It worked ^^

[@chudsquad8543]

Hello! The chudsquad team would like to ask if you would like to be on our infamous podcast!

[@TheSongHolder]

Idk why, but I know I am too lazy to even attempt this.