Use Pre-production boards in OpenToonz to animate faster!

[@jacobslaughter7198]

this will be super handy, because ive always had troubled importing props and sets from other scenes and feeling like its safe and not overwriting

[@DarrenTAnims]

This is exactly the kind of scenario that I think this feature will help with. You could do this before, but I think it'll just be clearer to do with the pp board.

[@kreazea]

ooooooh, this will definitely make things easier/better. I'm looking forward to this update.

[@DarrenTAnims]

I agree. It absolutely will

[@DarrenTAnims]

*Thanks for watching* How do you think you’ll use the new Pre-Production Board? Will it help with your animations?

[@kamilkucharski3267]

Awesome! Can't wait to see this feature in Tahoma2D

[@DarrenTAnims]

I suspect it'll be transferred over with the next merge of updates.

[@itzfroggi22]

Opentoonz gets convenient every year! :D

[@DarrenTAnims]

Absolutely it does. You wait to see what I'm going to share in the coming weeks! 😃

[@kassachap]

Nice video young Darren

[@DarrenTAnims]

Thanks chap 😃

[@Rover259Wild]

That's an awesome feature, I can't for the update to come.

[@DarrenTAnims]

You can get this now in the nightly build (on the OpenToonz download page). The next official release is expected around April.

[@Rover259Wild]

@@DarrenTAnims I did it. But it didn't work.

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@Rover259Wild You probably didn't rename your OpenToonz stuff folder before installing? It's annoying that you have to do that every time. Without it you won't see the new menu item.

[@Rover259Wild]

@@DarrenTAnims I renamed it. and it worked. will old Opentoonz files work in the new version.

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@Rover259Wild Yes. There's only been minor changes to the interface and features of the program. And only minor changes in the files.

[@pipeliner8969]

great to see those improvements!!!!

[@DarrenTAnims]

There's so many new things happening recently, it's hard to keep up. I'll try to post about them in the coming weeks though. Stay tuned!

[@Crystalshot]

I have a question How do you draw all those frames in your level strip Cus i am trying but i dint know how Is it that you would draw on a new frame and delete and then it would appear on the level strip i am confused I watched a cut out tutorial where you used bb-8 as an example i hope you remember the video Well my question is When you said that there is a way you can make frame by frame animation to make the lower half of bb-8 to rotate then you whipped out the level strip and there were a bunch of frame by frame animation of the lower half of bb-8 rolling and i dont know how you did that i have been trying to find answers but still confused most opentoonz tutorials are always like this 😢 and it is sometimes difficult to grab and understand what is actually going on if you get my point so if you can please explain i will appreciate it

[@Crystalshot]

I decided to ask this question on your most recent video so that i have a higher chance that this comment would be seen

[@DarrenTAnims]

Hi. I reply to all messages, whichever video they're on. This is one of the most common questions that I get on that video. I didn't show it in the video, but yes, I added all of those drawings. I actually used the auto inbetween feature to create them. But basically, they're just rotated views of the same original drawing.

[@Crystalshot]

@@DarrenTAnims how did you also do the auto in between drawing id like to learning that too

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@Crystalshot I've got a playlist on my channel with videos showing how to do that.

[@Crystalshot]

@@DarrenTAnims ok how do I find that playlist

[@FullchainAnimation]

That sounds handy. Would Tahoma happen to have that feature?

[@DarrenTAnims]

Not yet, but Tahoma tends to bring over most new features & fixes, so I hope so. 🤞

[@cedricadougba324]

Thanks, GOD bless you.

[@DarrenTAnims]

😀 My pleasure

[@ngutngut40]

Very cool. Will it slow down the programme through having more than one scene open at a time, or does the programme 'close down' the other scene when opening a new one?

[@DarrenTAnims]

There's only 1 scene open at once. If you've made a change to the current scene and click another, it asks if you want to save it first.

[@ngutngut40]

@@DarrenTAnims Great. I imagine it's easy to copy a selection of levels and paste then into another scene too.

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@ngutngut40 That's an interesting question. If you've anyway got the levels added to the other scene, you might be able to copy the exposures from one scene to another. I've not tried that yet.

[@physics_and_discovery]

How can I play all the scenes of a project together?

[@DarrenTAnims]

You'd need to add them together in a video editor, to watch them together. This is what you'd need anyway, to share them as a single animation. I use the free program, Shotcut, to assemble my shots.

[@AjkerBisleshon]

helpful. thanks

[@DarrenTAnims]

Cheers 😀

[@julio2768]

I hope there are changes in the appearance of the program too

[@DarrenTAnims]

What sort of changes would you like to see? Which parts of the program could look better for you?

[@julio2768]

@@DarrenTAnims color options palette (ilustration), timeline (blender), colored tools symbol (Inkscape) 😉 or something similar

[@Ролтун]

a long time wanted

[@DarrenTAnims]

It really is. I think it'll help to work with scenes and encourage using multiple scenes in a project to break it up.

[@lofwyr5063]

I see no real harm in this, but also no real gain, at least not for me. It is just an indexer, after all. It's a convenience, a minor one. I don't think studios will use this for production, but animators in the production might use it as a convenient playground for shots, but that might also be diminished by the fact that the drawings, as you said yourself, are shared.

[@DarrenTAnims]

I agree. It's certainly something I'll use when I start a larger project, to see if there's any benefit for me. It all depends on your workflow. I like breaking up my shots, so having the backgrounds in one scene, characters in another and then assembling shots in another, I can imagine I'll be jumping between scenes quite a lot, so this would be helpful for me. But I'll find that out when I use it in earnest.