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JAMES WHITELAW
South Africa
Приєднався 10 лис 2019
I work mostly in OpenToonz with some Blender thrown in. Please follow me on my journey as I create animated stories and learn along the way.
I have put some of my learning and work here on UA-cam, in the form of OpenToonz tutorials and examples.
I have put even more material into courses that are available via these links:
My Website:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com
Making A Short Animated Movie:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/Making-A-Short-Animated-Movie
Locomotion Course Bundle:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/locomotion-course-bundle
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
To join my mailing list:
mailchi.mp/2e4363513399/sykx87tuc3
Please find me also on;
Instagram: james_whitelaw_animation
Facebook: James-Whitelaw-Animation-104216374724140
I have put some of my learning and work here on UA-cam, in the form of OpenToonz tutorials and examples.
I have put even more material into courses that are available via these links:
My Website:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com
Making A Short Animated Movie:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/Making-A-Short-Animated-Movie
Locomotion Course Bundle:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/locomotion-course-bundle
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
To join my mailing list:
mailchi.mp/2e4363513399/sykx87tuc3
Please find me also on;
Instagram: james_whitelaw_animation
Facebook: James-Whitelaw-Animation-104216374724140
A quick update on the Animating With OpenToonz course
This is a brief look at some new material going into my course, Animating with OpenToonz.
I have a few weeks worth of work that I am busy uploading to the course. This is a very nice part of the course, I had a lot of fun with this new material, and I am sure you will enjoy it. This video is just a taste of one of the new material going into the course, there will be more to follow...
OpenToonz is a professional, powerful - yet free (Opensource) 2D animation program.
You can download OpenToonz here:
opentoonz.github.io/e/
For the full version, and more detail on the course, please see the links below;
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
"Animating with OpenToonz" will cover everything an animator needs to know about OpenToonz, from setting it up, and all the basics, all the way to more complex techniques and tools that one can use to really let OpenToonz show its' power.
This is a very hands-on course, leaning more to the application of OpenToonz, rather than just all the theory of it. So the project that I take on, and encourage the animator to do to, is central to the course. In between every project video, there will be technical explanation videos that go through what we have just used in more detail. So even if the animator does not do the project, she will be able to follow all the technical theory that goes into the creation of the project.
It comes with downloads needed for the project plus some locomotion templates to make the animation of certain parts much easier.
The course covers:
1. Basics - installing, FF Mpeg, Tools and workplace windows etc.
2. Drawing - the 2 main methods; vectors & raster, and how to use them to the full
3. Animating - covering the various methods and techniques OpenToonz offers
4. FX - we dive into some of the methods we can use the powefull FX that OpenToonz is packed with.
The course is broken into a few sections;
1. Basics - covering all the basics you need to get going with OpenToonz
2. Scene 1 - we start creating straight away in Scene 1, from drawing to animating.
3. Scene 2 - the creation continues in a second scene, as we explore more of OpenToonz.
4. FX - we add a variety of special effects (FX) to the 2 scenes.
5. Finally we render the final video and put it together with sound effects to form a wonderful piece of animation.
6. In between each part of the creation and animation of this piece there will be videos on the specific part of OpenToonz that we are covering in that part of the creation or animation, so the student can see specifically and in more detail what we are using and how we are using it.
7. There will be a section at the end of each scene covering what we have learnt and what we have used, just to once again reinforce the tools of OpenToonz and how we have used them.
The course is available on at a 40% discount to it's anticipated price when it is 100% complete.
Completion should be mid to late 2024.
Click the link below to go take a look at the course:
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
To join my mailing list:
mailchi.mp/2e4363513399/sykx87tuc3
To see more of what I offer, please visit my Website:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com
And here are the links to my courses directly:
Making A Short Animated Movie:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/Making-A-Short-Animated-Movie
Locomotion Course Bundle:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/locomotion-course-bundle
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
This 2D animation was created using Opentoonz
Music by www.BenSound.com
#opentoonzanimation
#opentoonz
#opentoonztutorial
I have a few weeks worth of work that I am busy uploading to the course. This is a very nice part of the course, I had a lot of fun with this new material, and I am sure you will enjoy it. This video is just a taste of one of the new material going into the course, there will be more to follow...
OpenToonz is a professional, powerful - yet free (Opensource) 2D animation program.
You can download OpenToonz here:
opentoonz.github.io/e/
For the full version, and more detail on the course, please see the links below;
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
"Animating with OpenToonz" will cover everything an animator needs to know about OpenToonz, from setting it up, and all the basics, all the way to more complex techniques and tools that one can use to really let OpenToonz show its' power.
This is a very hands-on course, leaning more to the application of OpenToonz, rather than just all the theory of it. So the project that I take on, and encourage the animator to do to, is central to the course. In between every project video, there will be technical explanation videos that go through what we have just used in more detail. So even if the animator does not do the project, she will be able to follow all the technical theory that goes into the creation of the project.
It comes with downloads needed for the project plus some locomotion templates to make the animation of certain parts much easier.
The course covers:
1. Basics - installing, FF Mpeg, Tools and workplace windows etc.
2. Drawing - the 2 main methods; vectors & raster, and how to use them to the full
3. Animating - covering the various methods and techniques OpenToonz offers
4. FX - we dive into some of the methods we can use the powefull FX that OpenToonz is packed with.
The course is broken into a few sections;
1. Basics - covering all the basics you need to get going with OpenToonz
2. Scene 1 - we start creating straight away in Scene 1, from drawing to animating.
3. Scene 2 - the creation continues in a second scene, as we explore more of OpenToonz.
4. FX - we add a variety of special effects (FX) to the 2 scenes.
5. Finally we render the final video and put it together with sound effects to form a wonderful piece of animation.
6. In between each part of the creation and animation of this piece there will be videos on the specific part of OpenToonz that we are covering in that part of the creation or animation, so the student can see specifically and in more detail what we are using and how we are using it.
7. There will be a section at the end of each scene covering what we have learnt and what we have used, just to once again reinforce the tools of OpenToonz and how we have used them.
The course is available on at a 40% discount to it's anticipated price when it is 100% complete.
Completion should be mid to late 2024.
Click the link below to go take a look at the course:
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
To join my mailing list:
mailchi.mp/2e4363513399/sykx87tuc3
To see more of what I offer, please visit my Website:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com
And here are the links to my courses directly:
Making A Short Animated Movie:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/Making-A-Short-Animated-Movie
Locomotion Course Bundle:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/locomotion-course-bundle
Animating With OpenToonz:
james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz
This 2D animation was created using Opentoonz
Music by www.BenSound.com
#opentoonzanimation
#opentoonz
#opentoonztutorial
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Changing the aspect ratio of the camera in OpenToonz
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(I sincerely apologise for the terrible quality of the audio - especially at the beggining - I don't know how it came out so badly!) This is short video to cover how to change the aspect ratio of the camera in OpenToonz. It's the kind of thing you would want to do if you wanted to render out video for TikTok or a reel on Instagram. It was a request from Muhhamad, one of my subscribers, but I th...
OpenToonz Tutorial - animating a bouncing ball (from the Animating with OpenToonz course)
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This is the classic "Bouncing Ball" animation, broken down step by step. It is part of a series of videos from my course, Animating with OpenToonz. This particular video covers how to animate the bouncing ball in the scene. The scene focuses on a man and his son, and his son has a ball that he drops, which bounces - and this is the part that this video covers, the bounce of this ball. This anim...
Animating with OpenToonz - Using I.K. (Inverse Kinematics) to animate a walk cycle
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This is part of a series of videos that have been recently uploaded into my course, Animating with OpenToonz. This particular part covers how I used I.K. (Inverse Kinematics)to animate a walk cycle of a new character for Scene 2 of the course. This is the nice part of the course, where we get to create characters and get them to walk and look busy, using both Skeletons and Plastic to animate th...
Animating with OpenToonz - new material going into the course this week...
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This is an update on new material going into my course, Animating with OpenToonz. I have a few weeks worth of work that I am busy uploading to the course this week. In all, 6 new videos totalling 90 minutes of material. This is the nice part of the course, where we get to create characters and get them to walk and look busy, using both Skeletons and Plastic to animate them. I had a lot of fun w...
Creating a draw bridge and cranes for Scene 2 of the Animating with OpenToonz course
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This is an update on the progress of Scene 2 in my new course, Animating with OpenToonz. OpenToonz is a professional, powerful - yet free (Opensource) 2D animation program. You can download OpenToonz here: opentoonz.github.io/e/ For the full version, and more detail on the course, please see the links below; Animating With OpenToonz: james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with...
Animating with OpenToonz - update on scene 2
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This is an update on the progress of Scene 2 in my new course, Animating with OpenToonz. OpenToonz is a professional, powerful - yet free (Opensource) 2D animation program. You can download OpenToonz here: opentoonz.github.io/e/ For the full version, and more detail on the course, please see the links below; Animating With OpenToonz: james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with...
Latest update on Animating With OpenToonz course - May 19 2024
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This is a brief update on progress of my new course, Animating with OpenToonz. In this video, which is at the beginning of the course, I discuss where I am in the creation of this new course, and what you can expect to see in it. There is already more than enough content in the course to to get going with if you want to join (at a 40% discount), as many animators have already done - with more t...
Creating the Seal - from the "Animating with OpenToonz" course
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This is a short snippet from a video in my "Animating with OpenToonz" course, which you can find via the link below; james-whitelaw-animation.thinkific.com/courses/animating-with-opentoonz In this video I reference a trick/technique I learned from Darren T's channel - it is to do with filling gaps in colour using OpenToonz's new "Pick & Freehand" tool - it's a very handy new function that OpenT...
"A Walk On The Wild Side" is a finalist in the COFFI 2024 film festival in Italy
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"A Walk On The Wild Side" is a finalist in the COFFI 2024 film festival in Italy this weekend - 4th/5th May. In this video, I look back at when another one of my short films, "A Man Walks Into A Bank" won Best Animation at a previous COFFI film festival - in 2022. As with all my other animated shorts, I did this entire animation in OpenToonz. OpenToonz is a professional, free (Opensource) 2D an...
Animating a dog in OpenToonz - part 3 of 3 (OpenToonz Tutorial)
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This is the third of 3 videos on how I created a 20 second animation for a client (to use on their UA-cam channel). It was a LOT of fun, and I videod the whole process (it took 3 days). I have broken it down into 3 parts; Part 1 - shows how I created the pencil layer of the dog jumping in and out of the scene. Part 2 - shows how I animated the head turn, the dog lifting his leg and "peeing" (th...
Animating a dog in OpenToonz - part 2 of 3 (OpenToonz Tutorial)
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Animating a dog in OpenToonz - part 2 of 3 (OpenToonz Tutorial)
Animating a dog in OpenToonz - part 1of 3 (OpenToonz Tutorial)
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Animating a dog in OpenToonz - part 1of 3 (OpenToonz Tutorial)
OpenToonz tutorial - Animating the Fishermen - from my Animating with OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz tutorial - Animating the Fishermen - from my Animating with OpenToonz course
OpenToonz tutorial - Creating the Fishermen - from my Animating with OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz tutorial - Creating the Fishermen - from my Animating with OpenToonz course
Best Animation award for "A Walk On The Wild Side" (a short animated film made with OpenToonz)
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Best Animation award for "A Walk On The Wild Side" (a short animated film made with OpenToonz)
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Sea Walls - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Sea Walls - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
OpenToonz Tutorial - Installing a new version of OpenToonz (7) & the ffmpeg files
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Installing a new version of OpenToonz (7) & the ffmpeg files
OpenToonz Tutorial - The plan for scene 2 - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - The plan for scene 2 - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
Happy 2024 from James Whitelaw Animation
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Happy 2024 from James Whitelaw Animation
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Bridge - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Bridge - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
"A Walk On The Wild Side" wins best animation at the Umgungundlovu Film Festival 2023
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"A Walk On The Wild Side" wins best animation at the Umgungundlovu Film Festival 2023
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Warehouses - a video from my Animating with OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Warehouses - a video from my Animating with OpenToonz course
My little YouTube channel hits 1000 - THANK YOU
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My little UA-cam channel hits 1000 - THANK YOU
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Back Ground - part of the Animating with OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Adding secondary movement - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Adding secondary movement - from my Animating With OpenToonz course
Run Cycle templates - now up on the Locomotion Course Bundle
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Run Cycle templates - now up on the Locomotion Course Bundle
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Fishing boat in Scene 2 - from Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating the Fishing boat in Scene 2 - from Animating With OpenToonz course
OpenToonz Tutorial - Working with multi planes in OpenToonz
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Working with multi planes in OpenToonz
OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating & animating the Seagull - from Animating With OpenToonz course
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OpenToonz Tutorial - Creating & animating the Seagull - from Animating With OpenToonz course
nahin I am mainly interested in this work but do not work here
Thank you for watching my videos Nahin, it's appreciated :-)
Thank u for uploading video's.... Your video's helped me
Thank you Keshav, I am happy that my work has helped you, thank you for watching, I really appreciate that, all the best :-)
By combining small shorts, a movie is made. it's a lot of hard work.
It is indeed, it's a lot of work, yes. Thank you for watching, all the best.
Nice Work. Did you know tahoma2D is the way as opentoonz?
Hi, thank you - yes I know Tahoma is great, I am just working with OpenToonz at the moment, for this course work etc. Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation no problem. You make great animations.
@@Rover259Wild Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words, thank you.
Thank you very much Sir. I really liked your work and your behavior. Many UA-camrs do not answer all the questions because they take money to do the course, you answer any question easily for free, then thank you once again Sir
You are most welcome Muhammad, I will always try to help where I can. Thanks for your support. All the best :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimationSir, i created characters on different coloumn in Opentoonz and after converting them to MP4, all the outlines disappear. Please tell me some tips so that the outline does not disappear after converting to mp4.
Muhammad, first check the columns are set to render, i.e. the 2 boxes at the top of the columns are ticked.
@@muhammadshakir222 Muhammad, first check the columns are set to render, i.e. the 2 boxes at the top of the columns are ticked
@@jameswhitelawanimation 😓which tick sorry sir i dont understand anything
This main character never said a single word the whole time and I still found myself lost in his adventure.
Thanks for watching Shelly, I am happy you got "lost" in his adventure, that is so good to hear, thank you :-)
Whay do you think this software is easy than others? I think this one make easy in blender
Hi Nalaka, I don't know if it's easier than others, I haven't tried all the others, but I do like it. I think find a software, or 2, that you like, and you are good to go. Blender is amazing but the thing I like about OpenToonz is it is "simple" in that it is a 2D software that is not trying to be anything else. With that simplicity there is power, but what ever you use, it's fine, just find something that you like, and go make amazing work. Thanks for watching :-)
Sir if I use 2nd vector background from Google Freepic, Vecteezy then copyright will come on youtube Love from INDIA 🇮🇳
Hi Muhammad, yes I think you need to be very careful as the UA-cam copyright algo/AI is very good at tracking down stuff, thanks for watching my channel, and greetings from SA :-)
Sir, how to mirror characters made on different columns together like left to right
Hi Muhammad, the easiest way to do it is to collapse all the columbs into a SubX Sheets and then flip/mirror that, I cover it in this video here; ua-cam.com/video/Aw9YOQL9lYk/v-deo.html Hope that helps :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation Thank you sir 🤝✨
@@muhammadshakir222 You are most welcome Muhammad
Garet work sir
Thank you :-)
Hello James, I'm enjoying the course and looking forward to getting to this part of the course. I'm getting my money's worth for sure. Thanks again.
Hi Thomas, oh that's so good to hear, thank you - I am thrilled you are enjoying it, that means a lot, thank you :-)
Great vid. Your walk cycle templates look really handy for this. And the walks of your characters look really natural. Nice ☺️
Hey Darren, thanks for that, and for watching, really appreciate it :-)
Thank you so much for this! I'm a 2D artist who illustrate in cats & desserts, and would love to learn simple animations eg. coffee in a cup becoming a cat. Which software would you recommend to start first? Thanks in advance!!
Hi Heather and thank you for watching. There is a lot of free software available, but I have chosen to narrow it down to these few, so I can say I am a bit biased towards them. OpenToonz is great, it really is, but you can also animate on Krita, and it may be simpler. Some people say the learning curve on OpenToonz is steep, but I must say I didn't find that. Try a few, then maybe you will see what suits you. All the best with your cat and dessert illustrations! And thank you again for watching :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation thank you so much, appreciate it :)
@@heatherer_art you are most welcome, Heather, thank you :-)
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You are most welcome, thank you for watching :-)
Love the way painter is so calm during entire confrontation with the lion. Something unique. Also the pacing of the story is so relaxing. Liked the wide angle shot of bridge and the way you repeatedly used in the scenes.😊❤
Thank you so much for your kind, considered words, they are really appreciated. I am glad you enjoyed it, that means a lot, thank you.
nice sir
Thank you very much, it's really appreciated :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation you are the best i think you deserve more subscribers
@@jameswhitelawanimation keep it on sir really helped me
That is very kind of you to say so, thank you! :-)
Ah, that is good to hear, thank you - I will certainly keep creating content for people like you who find it helpful, thank you.
😢😢i create a new scene and new level in opentoonz and load something in level like any 3 mb file and save now i delete my level just select and del button and save my file still same 3 mb solution please my open oveloaded like that 😓😓
Hi Ankit, are you saying that when you delete the level the 3 mb file is still there?
@@jameswhitelawanimation when i create a new scene and load any file in the level and after delete the level ,soo scene size is equal to level size which i important, also after deleted, why There us nothing at these point in my project so size wannna be almost none why it is not like that
@@jameswhitelawanimation Basically, after loading data at the main level and deleting it, I am not able to free up the space it takes data in project.
Hi Ankit, oh I see, it's a space issue, yeah - that is quite strange, but I honestly don't know why it does that, sorry I can't shed any light on that.
@@jameswhitelawanimationNo problem Thank you for your response🥰
I just signed up for the course. It looks like a very good one. 👍
Hi Thomas, thank you so much for signing up for the course, I sincerely hope you will enjoy it. I went and checked out your channel, and subscribed, I love what you are doing over there, very cool. All the best and warm greetings :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation Thank you James. I look forward to learning animations, I've been interested in it for a long time. Thanks for all the effort that you put into making the course.
@@plasticbuzzardmodelshop9715 You are most welcome Thomas, I wish you the best in your animation journey, and I sincerely hope this course will be of a help to you. All the best :-)
friend, how to make the movement of objects clearer in open tunes? because my objects seem to jump from frame to frame. it looks bad
Hi Mikkimaus, maybe you can try using less keys (animation keys) and perhaps add more frames into the moves, that may smooth things out a bit, see if that helps. All the best :-)
@@jameswhitelawanimation I started using 60 frames per second, instead of 24. but it hardly helped at all. maybe a problem with my laptop's capabilities?
@@mikkimaus Oh I see, that's very odd, yes maybe it's something to do with the laptop, I don't know. Sorry I couldn't help, Mikkimaus.
@@jameswhitelawanimation ok, thanks)
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Thank you :-)
Very small step step To work and very hardworking
Thank you 😊
nice
Thank you Devendra, and thank you for watching, it's really appreciated :-)
you are A MOTHER FRICKING GOD I have watched videos and read articles in COMPLETE DISTRESS trying to solve this problem and your video was so easily digestable for some reason. Love you
Thank you Drouva, I am glad that I was of some help, that makes me feel good, thank you. :-)
bagus sekali tutorialnya salam dari indonesia
Thank you - Terima kasih! And greetings from South Africa :-)
Thank you James! You ate the best
Thank you Jaison! :-)
Very nice dear, I have been trying this mixing of OT and blender workflow and after learning OT I am on the blender, thanks again for showing really unique work
Thank you for watching, and your kind words. Yes Blender is incredible, it really is, and I intend to use a lot more of it in this movie as I go along, for sure. I still love the 2D format so will use Blender to model and animate some stuff but still bring it back into OT and blend :-) it in to the 2D scenes. Thank you again and all the best with your animation journey further.
Muchas gracias, esta muy completo el tutorial.
Muchas gracias, me alegro que te pueda ayudar. Thank you for watching :-)
I like a latest (Nightly Build) OpenToonz (from 2024) That is,because: i have noticed some of the new features,which they did not exist before:Edit tags feature,duplicate drawing feature.
Thank you Szymon
You are very tallented person.Yes! animation can take at least: a couple of the months to be completed.I have done a couple of my animations,but: it took more than couple of years.
Hi Szymon, thank you for your kind and generous words, they are much appreciated, thank you. Yes, you know first hand how long this animation stuff takes, and they say i have no patience! 😀 thanks again and all the best for your animations 🙂
Tolong jelasin lebih jelas buat animasi air nya🙏🏻
hi, thanks for watching my video - to answer your question; the sea was done using "plastic" to animate it like that, all the best 🙂
Bagaimana cara membuat air laut kaya gitu
hi, thanks for watching my video - to answer your question; the sea was done using "plastic" to animate it like that, all the best 🙂
Hello sir, I entrust catoon animation video. But there no work. I from India.
Hi Shebhaz, nice to hear from you, and thank you for watching my video :-)
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@@darksee327 🙂
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Thank you :-)
I appreciate the shout out. I'm glad these tips are helping. I like the style of animation of drawing your character, duplicating, then moving it a little. To save the degredation in the line quality, what if you keep a duplicate of the original drawing and work from that every few drawings, so the line quality doesn't go downhill? I know you lose the flow of change A to B to C, etc, but it could help.
Cheers Darren, you are very welcome, your channel has been a great help to me and you deserve all the promotion you get. That is a great idea re. working off an original like that, I may well try it. I don't know if the way I work is just "lazy" but I do like working that way, instead of drawing each one from scratch. It's just that "degradation" of the line that get's me - but that's a great idea of yours, I may well implement it, thank you. :-)
I don't think it's lazy at all. It's a great way to create animation and a perfect way to keep the proportions. I do this myself a lot. Especially for inbetweens. Even if I draw one inbetween, I tend to add a small one at the start and end of the movement by using this technique. It gives me a 3 drawing movement while only making 1 new drawing.
And for these small movements I tend to use the selection tool, holding the ctrl key and adjusting the corners, just to give that small anticipation.
@@DarrenTAnims Ah, cheers Darren. Yes, I am always looking for a way to speed up my work flow, as you know how long animation takes, so I do tend to "cut corners" where I can, like that. Then I feel guilty that it may be lazy or what ever, but I push on, for ever looking for processes that speed up the workflow without giving away (too much) on the quality. It's always a balance, and I may tip over to one side or another, depending where I am in a project.
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Sir I've lost all my control panels in Kumoworks how do I restore them all? If anyone knows pls help. Only the sky is visible.
Hi Akash, ok - had a look at it, and to get back all the control panels all you have to do is point your mouse onto the top control bar, right click and then a drop down will appear that allows you to turn on/off all the settings for clouds, sky etc - hope that helps, all the best :-)
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Hi, this is the start on Animating a seal for a scene in my Animating With OpenToonz course. Very basic frame by frame animation, more to come 😊👍
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please give subtitle in bahasa, ty
Hi, thanks for your request, unfortunately I can't do that, as I don't have the time. I know UA-cam offers a subtitle function, but I don't know if they do in Bahasa. Thank you for watching my video, much appreciated.
Great series. I especially loved the use of the subxsheet to flip the animation. Regarding painting the colour: Using the paint brush tool on the same level, the paint colour will always be behind the lines, if you choose the areas option (default), so you could paint on the same level if you wanted. It makes managing drawings easier because you don't have to worry about keeping them in sync. Plus, you can use the bucket fill, which is much quicker than painting manually. And using the frame range, you could paint the fur for all of the drawings in 2 steps. Then paint the collar, tongue, etc on top afterwards, using the Lock Alpha option, to paint only where the fur paint was. Thanks again for sharing 😀
Hi Darren, what an honour to have you watch my video and even more so, to comment. It's much appreciated, as I am a fan of your channel. Thanks, those are some great tips re. filling etc - this part of OT is relatively "new" to me, as most of the drawing/painting etc I have been doing out of OT, in Krita - so I have much to learn in this regard. It's a bit of a weak spot, so thank you fir the tips, I will go through them all and see where I can apply them to my work flow going forward. Next video I make that encompasses them, I will be sure to share the source, i.e. you. That's a "Darren-tee" ;-) Thanks again Darren and warm regards :-)
😀 Cheers James. I've been following you for a while (quietly). The more people making OpenToonz videos, the better. Let's get the word out there! I just wanted to share these tips in case it helped. There's always a temptation to continue working in OT as you have in other software, but working with the indexed colours and the separation of line & fill that Toonz Raster and Vector levels has, can help introduce different workflows. Colouring on different "layers" is something I'm asked about a lot! So it's a pet subject for me, as you can probably tell 🙂
@@DarrenTAnims indeed! I came across OT barely 4 years ago, looking for something to just get going with, to create my movies, and I absolutely loved it. I want to tell stories, primarily, so I tend to rush through all the technical stuff along the way, as I just want to get stuff done. I saw OT as just a tool to get stuff done, at first. But now, as I learn more about it, and it’s amazing offerings, the more I love it, and the more I want to learn about it. It’s a great, powerful piece of kit, for sure 👌
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HELO SIR ...GOOD EVENING ..IM WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS CONTINUOUSLY ....I HAVE a problem with open toonz 1.7.1 version when im taking the tools is not responding....but i toch the right clik its working ..every action i made right clik...please say about what to do. For the direct action ..
Thank you for watching my videos, I hope they are helping you learn OpenToonz. I don’t know why it’s doing that, but I suspect it’s a setting on the mouse or stylus you are using. Did it only start with version 1.7.1 - was it ok with the earlier version?
@@jameswhitelawanimation Thanks for rour reply sir..im using opentoonz first time..synfig is my earlier toon app..ill try to find what's the problem ...again i thank you sir
Thank you, please let me know if you find the answer to your problem and resolve it. And thanks for watching my videos. All the best 🙂
Finally i got it sir....now tools selection are working smoothly ...when iam change my dark mode settings into bright mode...its working 😂😂iam happy now..thank you somuch
I am happy to hear that, thanks for letting me know, I know that must have been very frustrating for you. Now you can enjoy OpenToonz without that issue, well done! 🙂@@Balasubramanian.R
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