You might know this already, but for colour picking it’s really useful to use tagged swatches - you can create your tagged palette ( tagged colours have a little white corner on the bottom right) and if you change your mind about a certain shade, you can simply change the tagged swatch so all the layers with that colour will automatically update! I learnt this trick from a tutorial years ago and it stuck with me, defo a huge time saver! Keep up the great work!!
Catching back up with these now (Been saving them for inspiration for my own creative drought but didn’t realise it’d been so long!). I quite like the way you paint the colours of the characters like the old cel shaded animators used to do it 😁 Flash used to have a way to close gaps but no idea if that transferred to Adobe Animate
Very usefull trick for filling up colors even not closing line arts. We have a option while paint bucket tool selected. in tool tab(at 2.58) > paint bucket> first option if we clicks we gets different option like 1. Close small gaps ( if we think gaps between closed line is small) 2. Close middium gaps( if we think gaps between closed line is medium) 3. Close large gaps ( if we think gaps between closed line is large) it literally saves time as we dont have to close all gaps and we can fill line art from above options. Try out that feature. and let me know if it is helpful.
i dont know if adobe animate works this way, but in toon boom harmony, there's sub-layers within layers for colour and line-art (and another 2 extra ones in harmony premium), so you basically just colour on the lineart layer. although i don't know if it would give you the same amount of control as another whole proper layer with blend mode and effects. Not sure if animate has something like this, but could be worth seeing if it does
@@sandoraka i've been using harmony for about 5 years now and i can say its very nice to work with and has good customer support. they offer free trials of every version for 21 days, which means you can get it for 63 without paying if you want to try it out. i wish they were paying me to say this haha
Maybe I dont get it, but what about painting with color along the line first? Then you would have a closed area to use the bucket tool inside of, right? You would still need to paint a lot manually though 😓
so I don't know is this is useful or not, but I had the same problem when trying to animate VFX in photoshop, of not being able to use a reference to animate to and from etc. (if I understand your problem correctly). I had to like, make extra layers and add those paralell to the new layer I want to draw on. such a pain in the butt. However I've seen 2D VFX peeps use TVpaint instead. I've never tried it myself (had no time during a project), but it seems like you can easily add new sketches on different layers while keeping them visible and color coded. Maybe have a look at that?
Mhh I'm def into the idea of learning TVpaint! I think these industry standard programs probably have more useful tools but sadly I cannot afford them atm!😿
You might know this already, but for colour picking it’s really useful to use tagged swatches - you can create your tagged palette ( tagged colours have a little white corner on the bottom right) and if you change your mind about a certain shade, you can simply change the tagged swatch so all the layers with that colour will automatically update! I learnt this trick from a tutorial years ago and it stuck with me, defo a huge time saver! Keep up the great work!!
Oh this is def useful, thank you so much for sharing! I'm learning so much in this comment section haha!🎉
All your hard work is really coming together!
Thank you! I'm getting excited for post processing!🤩
So awesome to follow this🥳💪
Thank you for watching❤️
It's starting to look so pretty!!
Thank you kindly!🥳
Catching back up with these now (Been saving them for inspiration for my own creative drought but didn’t realise it’d been so long!). I quite like the way you paint the colours of the characters like the old cel shaded animators used to do it 😁 Flash used to have a way to close gaps but no idea if that transferred to Adobe Animate
@@davebrainvfx Happy to hear from ya again! :D Hope your project is doing well as well!
Very usefull trick for filling up colors even not closing line arts.
We have a option while paint bucket tool selected.
in tool tab(at 2.58) > paint bucket> first option if we clicks we gets different option like
1. Close small gaps ( if we think gaps between closed line is small)
2. Close middium gaps( if we think gaps between closed line is medium)
3. Close large gaps ( if we think gaps between closed line is large)
it literally saves time as we dont have to close all gaps and we can fill line art from above options.
Try out that feature.
and let me know if it is helpful.
Ooh this is very interesting! Thank you, I will have a look at this for sure!🎉
i dont know if adobe animate works this way, but in toon boom harmony, there's sub-layers within layers for colour and line-art (and another 2 extra ones in harmony premium), so you basically just colour on the lineart layer. although i don't know if it would give you the same amount of control as another whole proper layer with blend mode and effects. Not sure if animate has something like this, but could be worth seeing if it does
Ooh I like the sound of sub-layers! I really gotta try out Toon Boom as soon as I have the chance!
@@sandoraka i've been using harmony for about 5 years now and i can say its very nice to work with and has good customer support. they offer free trials of every version for 21 days, which means you can get it for 63 without paying if you want to try it out. i wish they were paying me to say this haha
Maybe I dont get it, but what about painting with color along the line first? Then you would have a closed area to use the bucket tool inside of, right? You would still need to paint a lot manually though 😓
Yeah I use this technique a lot haha! Makes it at least a little faster at least...🙃
so I don't know is this is useful or not, but I had the same problem when trying to animate VFX in photoshop, of not being able to use a reference to animate to and from etc. (if I understand your problem correctly). I had to like, make extra layers and add those paralell to the new layer I want to draw on. such a pain in the butt. However I've seen 2D VFX peeps use TVpaint instead. I've never tried it myself (had no time during a project), but it seems like you can easily add new sketches on different layers while keeping them visible and color coded. Maybe have a look at that?
Mhh I'm def into the idea of learning TVpaint! I think these industry standard programs probably have more useful tools but sadly I cannot afford them atm!😿
@@sandoraka ah yeah I checked the price now, and I wasn't aware that it was that expencive. That really sucks.