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If you read completely through that last slide show then you now have your character outlined using the contour tool and even scaled down to fit within your 12 field grid. But I wanted to do the bulk of the work on this in TBS so I didn't do any special prep in Photoshop on purpose.
NOTE: If you prepared your drawn image in Photoshop with a totally transparent background and saved it as a PNG, you would not need to do the contour tool outlining steps. The next slide show will take you through the steps to outline the character using the contour tool in drawing view. If you navigated through the first slide show, you now have the bird character imported into your TBS project on a drawing element named "Scanned Image". They are packed with information so take your time and backtrack as often as you need. Use the Previous and Next arrows to navigate through the slides. Let's get going with the first slide show. And when you run into a problem and need help I'm here to respond to your questions on the ToonBoom User Forums or you can e-mail me directly or through the discussions area in the Cartooning in ToonBoom WIKI. The only way to learn to animate in TBS is through doing it. By the way, read the tutorial and then re-read it and actually do it yourself.
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(GIF, JPG, PNG etc.) I'm providing this image HERE as a download for you to use to follow this tutorial.
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So you don't need Photoshop or any special software just draw your character and scan it into your computer to get it into an image file. I did absolutely no editing of the scan other than scanning it in at 300 DPI resolution. So I scanned it into Photoshop and saved it as a GIF formatted image. And while looking at it day after day for a period of time I realized it would really be fun to animate this black bird. I was looking at this drawing in my studio, it is part of a character design study on which I have been working. I wanted to do it this way for the instructional value so that we can explore the steps from scanning in a drawing to animating the character on that drawing. Does your cut-out character have to be drawn this way? No, you could draw it on your computer in some graphics software or even inside ToonBoom Studio itself. Yes, an actual hand drawn, old school, piece of cartoon art work. 1 A black bird character done with pen and inkĪbove is a photo of the drawing on my drawing table.
So let's begin a somewhat ambitious journey together. It will lay down, hopefully, a solid foundation for even more detailed tutorials expanding further into this subject.
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This series will follow the steps of constructing a cut-out character, rigging that character and animating that character. First they allow the presentation of significant amounts of information in a small footprint on the web page and secondly they allow the reader to move back and forth easily through complicated detailed instructional steps.
The slide shows serve two important needs. I'm expanding on that concept in this series. One of the tools I introduced in that tutorial was the use of embedded slide show style step by step instructions. Just prior to this tutorial series, my most recent tutorial on Keyframing the Bouncing Ball was intended to isolate and simplify a complex subject. So keep up your end too, and keep asking questions and making comments. NOTE: Thanks for all the comments and feedback and questions, they help me to better understand what works and what to improve in my communicating and presentation. I've written several previous tutorials on Photo Cut-Outs and Animating Cut-Outs and I hope that the lessons I have learned from doing that will help these next tutorials to be even better and more comprehensive. Based on e-mails and comments which I have received as well as many postings on the Toon Boom User Forums, I have determined that there is a significant number of people who really want to see a detailed step by step tutorial style approach to this subject. This is the first part of a new tutorial series on creating and animating Cut-Out characters in ToonBoom Studio.
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