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TVPaint 11 Documentation
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1. First approach of TVPaint Animation
Introduction
Various panels
Introduction
Menu Panel
Drawing Panels
Project window, Timeline
Drawers
Main menu
Info bar
Useful tips
Working with projects
Create a project
Working with several projects
Save and Close
Search Engine
Help
Quit
Preferences
Introduction
General
Save
Display
Interface
Memory & Cache
Sound
Startup
Drawers
Introduction
Locate the drawers
Work with the drawers
Exceptions
More options
Video tutorial: Introducing the interface
Rooms
Introduction
Aim of a Room
Customize the Rooms
Some details
Working without DPIs
The notion of pixel aspect ratio
Video fields
Exporting custom settings
Keeping your projects safe
2. Drawing with TVPaint Animation: first steps
Introduction
Drawing tools
Presentation
Setting the tools
Setting of the brush profile
Activate Line smoothing
Video tutorials: Shapes
Color Panel
Introduction
A&B Colors
Slider & Picker
Mixer Panel
Palette
Chromatic Wheel
Color Variations
Filling tools
Filling tools presentation
Colors modes, smooth, opacity and a-aliasing
Gradient
Opacity Mapping
Library
Paper panel
Select, Cut and Transform
Selections and brush creation
Transformation tools
Panning tool
Transform tool
Perspective tool
Warp tool
Guides
Introduction
Line angle
Segment
Circle
Ellipse
Grid
Marks
Vanishing points
Image
Field chart
Animator field
Safe area
Further details
Coords
Notion of layer and colored background
The drawing modes
The Eraser tool
The Re-apply option
Zoom and View options
Display menu & settings
Notion of pixel opacity
Rotation of the workspace
Drawing tool History
History panel
3. Animating with TVPaint Animation: first steps
Introduction
Working with Animation Layers
Introduction
Create a new layer
Start frame
The advantage of working with several Layers
The current layer
Flip layers
Rename a layer
Delete a layer
Video tutorial : Animation basics
Working with Instances
Introduction
What is an instance ?
Splitting an Instance into two smaller Instances
How to use instances for animation ?
Deletion and Addition
Erase the content of an image instance
Erase the content of a Layer
Delete instances heads and exposure cells
Add instances
Add images
Shrink an Animation Layer
Reverse selected images of an Animation layer
Selection, navigation and movement
Animation Layers selection
Animation Layers temporal move
Cut, Copy, Paste Layers
Select the images in an Animation Layer
Movement and orientation within the Timeline
Navigate among instances
Move images inside a Layer
Move images to other layers
4. Tradigital Animation: additional functions
Auxiliary options in the Timeline
Pre and post behavior
Reduce a layer
Lock a layer
Modify the global opacity of a layer
Interactive Zoom Ratio
The notion of Color Groups
Presentation
Apply a color to a group
Protect a group
Show and hide color groups
Group color list
Edit groups
Layer Preset Manager
Introduction
Anim Layer
Creating new presets
Other presets
Other very useful options
The Stencils
Preserve Alpha channel
Merge layers
Using the Bookmarks
Use the Image mark Panel
Name an instance
The Display and Playback options
Activate and inactivate layers, show and hide icons, papers and stencils
Fielded Projects
The Navigator
The Playback Options
The Proxy or Preview settings panel
Blending modes concept
Introduction
Blending modes list
5. Tradigital Animation: Advanced functions
The classical tools of the Animator
Workspace rotation
Using the Light Table
The Out-of-Pegs feature
Flip panel
Presentation
Basic
Directional
Manually
The Sketch RGB panel
The Repeat Images feature
The Handy Custom Panel
The Clip > All Layers menu
Further details
The Stroke Animator option
The Drawing Recorder
6. Sound management
The Notes layer
Audio multi tracks
Introduction
How to add audio tracks
Audio tracks parameters
Audio tracks preview
Preferences panel options
The Stopwatch
7. Colorize and texturize an animation
Coloring with drawing tools
The floodfill tool
The Auto Pick Color option
Fill inside
Color Checker
Coloring with CTG Layers
Two essential concepts
Practical application
CTG Layer : parameters, limitations and aspects
Similar functions
Additional functions
Methods of application
Video tutorial: Coloring with CTG Layers : Basics
Examples
Extract color
The texturing process
Create the texture
Add the texture
Tracking and Rendering zones
Parameters and apply
8. Create and manage a storyboard
What is a storyboard
Create a storyboard
Define the project
First clip and first drawing
Manage your storyboard
Make the difference between scene and clips
Create scenes and clips
Change scenes and clips
Storyboard's aspect
Video tutorial: Introducing the project tab
Turn your storyboard into an animatic
What is an animatic ?
Give a duration to your clips
Add sound
Making a camera movement
Configure your camera
Publish your storyboard / animatic
PDF publish
HTML publish
EDL publish
Export to
9. Importing and Exporting with TVPaint Animation
Handling TVPaint Animation projects
Save a project
Save a template
Load an existing project
Modify a project
Load an image or animation
Dependencies
Video tutorial : Import or open a file
Export files
Introduction
Project and Clip Display tabs
The Layers Structure tab
JSON export
The Custom Brush tab
Video tutorial: export a project
Working with hand-made drawings
Import an image sequence
Crop a project
Clean-up
Flip an image
Use the Peg-holes registration
Video tutorial: From Analog to Digital
The Share Manager
Video options
The Video Input panel
The Video Output panel
Print
Tutorial Recorder
The TVPaint Converter
10. Drawing tools: Advanced functions
To perfectly master the drawing tools
Using Drying, Grain and Light
The Special brush
The Warp brush
The Text tool
The connections
The connections Profiles
The drawing tool panel : Bin tab
The other drawing modes
The Shade and Light modes
The Saturate and Unsaturate modes
The Smooth and Sharp modes
The Burn and Dodge modes
The Colorize and Tint modes
The Negative and Solarize modes
The Grain and Noise modes
The Emboss mode
The Add and Sub modes
The Multiply and Screen modes
The Alpha Diff mode
The Panto mode
The Healing mode
Clipboard and spare
The clipboard
The Spare image
The Merge and Impressionist drawing modes
11. Brushes and Custom Panels
The Custom Brush tool
Cutting options
Parameters of the Custom Brush tool
Video tutorial : Custom Brushes
Recreating your Photoshop brushes
The notion of Animated Brushes
Floodfill using a brush
The Tool Preset panel
Custom panels
Introduction
Create a custom panel
How to manage the panels
How to use the TVPX format
Adding an action
The actions at your disposal
How to manage the created actions
12. Working with the FX stack
Introduction
The effect stack or FX stack
What is the FX stack?
Initial study of the FX stack
Working in real time
The various viewing modes
Some operations
Apply FX
Working with FX Stack keyframes
FX Stack keyframes
Manage the effect's progress
Managing effects with several parameters
The Path
Video tutorial: Understanding the basics
More details about the FX stack
A more complex effect: the Rendering > Lighting effect
Single effect, multiple effects
Current effect, preview and collapsing of effects
Swap two effects
Reset, rename, undo, save settings
FX stack and TVPaint Animation projects
Introduction to the video effects
13. The different effect categories
Blur
Introduction
Cubic & Gaussian & Center blur
Radial and Directional blur
Motion blur
Chroma blur
Median blur
Deinterlace effect
Color
Introduction
Black and White converter
Tint & Color replacer
Multi Color replacer
Color Adjust
Curves
Color Eraser
Sliders
Histogram
Scan Cleaner Color
Scan Cleaner Black and White
Dust Cleaner
Expand
Line Colorize
Line Colorize Enhanced
Transition
Introduction
Fade
Block, Blind, Rotary
Classic, Slide, Page Turn
Combining blur and transition effects
Keying
Luma Keyer
Color Keyer
Chroma Keyer
Alpha Control
Advanced Keyer
Cross Keyer
Stylize
Glow & Grain
Bevel & Drop shadow
Toon shading
Highlight
Erode & Add Border & Bloom
Blender & Mosaic & Posterize
Noise & Print
Negative & Solarize & Color Range
HalfTone & Lumix
The Source Image notion
Image Source
Convolve
Distortion
Flip & Mirror
Kaleidoscope
Perspective: 4 points
Wave & Tornado
Bump & Displacement Mapping
Warp Grid
Optical Flow
Paint
Auto-paint
Motion
Introduction
Path management basics
The Path recorder
The Path manager
Save paths
Pixel-tracker
The Shaker effect
The stabilization effects
Stabilization 1 point
Stabilization 2 points
Rendering
Lens Flare
Lighting
Volumetric Light
RotoTracking
Healing Tracker
Background Generator
Plasma and Perlin Noise
Text
Multiline Text
Time Code Generator
Pattern Generator
Brush Spreading
Inlay Texture
14. The Keyframer
Using the Keyframer
Video tutorial: Keyframer
15. Multiplane Camera Effect
The concept
The View and Planes tabs
Create an animation with the multiplane camera effect
Create and manage focusing blurs
The multiplane camera wizard
Other situations
3D Views
Positioning in space
16. The advanced functions of TVPaint Animation
The Particles Generator effect
Introduction
Learn by example
The tabs of the Particles Generator effect
The World tab
The Emitters tab
The Emitters > Particles tab
The Emitters > Particles > Current tab
The tab Emitters > Particles > Shape
The Emitters > Current tab
How to use the "George" scripting language
Introduction: what is George ?
Editing and executing George scripts
Programming in George language
Instructions and Commands
An example of program written in George.
A few useful options
How to use the variables
The operators at your disposal
The Param and Parse instructions, the launching modes.
The character strings
The Arrays
Functions and procedures
How to create libraries of functions and procedures.
Adding arguments
Video tutorial: Shapes
This tutorial will show you the different shapes of the drawing tools: