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Nope, doesn't work. That's why it's best to keep outline and colour separated as long as possible. I had that problem myself, two solutions: - trace the line roughly on a new layer (useful if I only want to add one or two frames) - duplicate the coloured layer and use the scan cleaner. Doesn't give ...

See the little "Z"? Click and drag it. This expands and compresses the timeline. Under a certain compression it can't display individual frames, that's all.

I think this would perfectly go along with a "group" feature for layers.

"Disney" just as an example of a big studio working with Cintiqs and having the money for really powerul workstations. I don't even know which software they use (could it still be their very own brand which they developed in the 80's?). I never had a Disney drawing in my hands, but I liter...

Recently I've noticed that I'm not satisfied with HD resolution anymore. When I draw a complete human character, I can't put as much detail into their face as I'd like to do, and I'm not so comfortable with animating them in that size (on a Cintiq 21, mind you). I miss the old 12 field paper. Not th...

Search for "paper offset", someone wrote a script.

With small movements it's good enough to click into a spot which is shared by the same fill area in all frames. Do, undo, select all, redo. Still you have to make sure all lines are closed, and if anything goes wrong you have to start again. (Duplicate that layer before.) With broad movements you're...

There's a short story by Ray Bradbury about a sailor far from the sea who wanted to have a sea funeral. Finally he's buried in the fields, the corn providing the waves.

Looks great, but Paul is right: you spot the trick at the border. I'd cover that with a hand-animated area.

How did you do that? From the end I suspect you used some distortion effect?

Typical TV exec taste, I'd say ... The whole thing is "over-produced" IMO. Simpler elements, less lines, and a mixture of different drawing techniques would've been fine. This looks like your typical presentation video shown on fairs and sales shows.

I run into a trap several times when working with linked files recently. Quicktime on Mac will allow you to drag single frames from any open movie file. These clips will not open in TVP, so I opended them in Photoshop and saved as JPG. Those I imported into TVP, all worked fine, so far. Then I decid...

You should always draw into all edges. "Safe zone" only means that parts otside of it may not be visible on older tube TV sets, so don't put important stuff there. "Title zone" is even more restricted and means "don't put any title outside of this".

In a professional workflow, none of your renders out of AS would be boradcasted. Instead, they'd go into a video editor first. Because of that you render with no compression/highest quality in NTSC dimensions with square pixels.

I'm with you here - I didn't get the concept until just recently. But now I use it every day. Let's say you're planning an animation like this: some action - a cycle of 3 drawings, repeated for 2 seconds - some other action. The timeline with all drawings looks like this: a - b - c - d - e - c1 - c2...

I think as long as you don't do anything with that video layer except shortening or shifting in time, it is just decoded like in your video player. Only when I apply some pixel-changing action it gets rendered as a full uncompressed 24bit image and stored that way in TVP's native format.

Am I right?