To get rid of those pesky pixel lines making your bucket fillings look stupid, choose the Pen tool and disable Anti-Aliasing. Also set the size of the brush to at least 2.0. This makes for clean lines and will help your art drastically!
Last year i tried out pencil2D on my own without a tutorial (i couldn't find any good ones) and gave up because i got frustrated as heck. Thank you so much for this!!
lmao, i just make animations by sketching random things on ms paint and then exporting it onto powerdirector and editing it from there. i've always wanted to use pencil 2d, but i never found any decent tutorials. now in quarantine, i thought of trying to make animations again. your tutorial videos are very clear and concise. thanks a lot!
Hey TJ, I just got into animation and I am using this software Since I heard it was good for animation, I just wanted to know how to make the outline of the previous drawing on the next frame, thanks for making such amazing vids bro, Helped me out a lot.
for the probelm with the bucket tool and showing some whight when you fill the shape this is how you fix it : on your pen you take off the Anti-analysing and then you go to the bucket tool and put Colour Tolerance up to 100 andafter that our shapes will be fuiled all fully and spots no more spots will be missed !! and by the way whetver staybalizer your pen is on wont affect the bucket tool colouring and filling in so dont worry !!
I have a question I accidently exited out of my toolbox interface so I cant see it anymore do you know how I get it back to where I can see the tools again
Wait, someone helped me and you need to click on the bottom left of the screen, ("display" i think it's called) and click on the item of "previous image" and set it to what you want. It worked for me at least.
I'm having an issue with polytool in which I can't delete or undo any lines drawn with it. I can't find anything online about it, so does anyone know what's the issue?
when I draw something and I click the plus icon to move to another frame, the drawing in the first frame disappears, it doesn't become grayish, what am I doing wong?
um. i pressed the X button on a couple of the tool bars and stuff and i dont know how to get it back to normal :/ can someone tell me how to get it back to normal? ...pls
3:26 how did you fill that circle with color without the white stuff around the edges? I have the same brush settings before drawing the line, but after the colour filling the white stuff is there :(
Everytime I change color it changes the color of like half the stuff I have as black like let's say I draw a rainbow I do red now I wanna do green I do green but then the red becomes green
Good question. Yes, there is a button right above the timeline to duplicate the frame. To move a frame, just left click on it and hold and drag it around. It will not affect the other frame in the timeline, unless it is released on top of another key frame.
@@cractrakofficial8890 It is only the selected frame. I've only been able to move all the selected frames, not copy or cut for some reason. I think this is a bug. The cut, copy paste seem to only work on the single highlighted/active frame.
Idk why, but when I add a frame the drawing just disappear or remain with the same opacity...Idk if I messed with something...but, pls help me because it does not work
Hey! Love your videos man, trying to get into animation and your tutorials are perfect for it! But just one thing, before I discovered your videos I kinda messed around with the settings in 2D Pencil. So now, Im missing some of the options in the Display section the default settings let you use, I tried the Set back to Default Settings but nothing good happened out of that. Any idea how I can fix it? EDIT: Nevermind im a brainlet and just found out how to fix it.
Hello tell me one thing. Is Synfig Studio better than this software? I just want to do basic 2D animation. Should I learn this or directly learn Synfig Studio.
I'm no expert, but I tried synfig and the main issue I had is that there is little to no tutorial videos out there. Or at least there wasn't when I tried using it. Could be different now.
Nice 2d software. Easy to use. I think it is a digital way of making flip books. Just kidding, I know flip books are different than 2d animation. I am a blender user. But I think it would be helpful for me to make rough sketches and key poses.
hey how do i see the previous frames i downloaded it and watched ur tutorials but when i draw the first frame and move to the next its like fully gone so i cant see the 1st one, on ur video when u moved to the next fram the first frame was still shown but like lightly
not sure if you are still using the program but i just downloaded it and had the same issue, after a bit of messing around i figured out that to fix that there is a panel on the left bottom side called 'previous slide' it is above the 'timeline' bar. click on the onion skin button and those transparent frames will show up, ive set mine to 15 but you dont have to. hopefully that helps, have a good day :)
Is there any tool that rotates a picture? For example, I want to animate a shotgun. It'll kick backwards, but it also needs to have some vertical recoil.
When I tried to add another frame with the plus sign below, I didn't see a grey-ed out image of the previous frame to draw over. Did I do something wrong, and of I did, is there a way I can fix it?
I've tried using this program so many times before, and that's always the part that holds me back i have yet to find a fix to this, and was really hoping somebody here would know how to fix it. lol..
@@stephenboschmann5419 You're a life saver! I'm just trying to get into animation and was stuck on this. I know your comment was 2 years ago... but it still works
To get rid of those pesky pixel lines making your bucket fillings look stupid, choose the Pen tool and disable Anti-Aliasing.
Also set the size of the brush to at least 2.0.
This makes for clean lines and will help your art drastically!
You are a lifesaver. Thank you so much.
I just downloaded this program because I'm interested into getting into some animation and I thank you SO much for these nice, easy, clear tutorials.
You're welcome. Good luck!
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@@jesuslovesyouandisthewayto1114 me as a christian: please let them had peace they were normal people like us
@TJFREE i added a new frame at 6:22, but it didn't become grayed. Can you tell me plz.
@@Mercedes_Cpm Yeah similar issue here
Last year i tried out pencil2D on my own without a tutorial (i couldn't find any good ones) and gave up because i got frustrated as heck.
Thank you so much for this!!
Just what I need to get me started. Clear and concise. Thanks.
Glad to hear it. Best of luck!
lmao, i just make animations by sketching random things on ms paint and then exporting it onto powerdirector and editing it from there. i've always wanted to use pencil 2d, but i never found any decent tutorials. now in quarantine, i thought of trying to make animations again. your tutorial videos are very clear and concise. thanks a lot!
are you fine now?
It seems like a fairly intuitive program and i am looking forward to the next tutorial.
Yes, its a great program to learn the basics of frame by frame animation.
Thank you, these tutorials are helping me a ton
Third.
*yes*
You have awesome videos on the best free programs
Hey TJ, I just got into animation and I am using this software Since I heard it was good for animation, I just wanted to know how to make the outline of the previous drawing on the next frame, thanks for making such amazing vids bro, Helped me out a lot.
yeah how do u do that
Can't you just trace it? Or duplicate the frame and erase the inside?@@LZRDboy2011
for the probelm with the bucket tool and showing some whight when you fill the shape this is how you fix it :
on your pen you take off the Anti-analysing
and then you go to the bucket tool and put Colour Tolerance up to 100
andafter that our shapes will be fuiled all fully and spots no more spots will be missed !!
and by the way whetver staybalizer your pen is on wont affect the bucket tool colouring and filling in so dont worry !!
Now I know that pressing Enter with the polyline tool locks it in. Thanks!
How can I make a perfect circle or square ,is there any separated tools for this I can’t see that option ... help pleaseee
Bro when I fill colours then some pixelated white pixels remains on the border plz tell how to fix it
the smudge tool is useful for teleporting animation
agreed
I have a question I accidently exited out of my toolbox interface so I cant see it anymore do you know how I get it back to where I can see the tools again
I have the same problem
how do you make perfect shapes?
by the way nice tutorial!
I’m so glad I found this
I love your tutorials
I HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN EVER I SELECT ANY TOOL LIKE BRUSH OR ERASE THE FRAME THING GOES AWAY
HOPE U FIND THIS COMMENT
Uh, I messed up something..
I accidently deleted the tools to my left, how do I get them back ;-;
reset essentials, i think. Thats what I do on photo shop... or google it maybe. I might download this app, so I might be able to figure it out
Go to the windows option on the top and double click it back
i'll try out those
4:35 no matter how much i press enter it doesn' t stop using the polyline tool
nice tutorial and this help me a lot very easy to understand
the little grey shade when switching keys dont work
Yes! it's really annoying
Wait, someone helped me and you need to click on the bottom left of the screen, ("display" i think it's called) and click on the item of "previous image" and set it to what you want. It worked for me at least.
@@popop7850 thx
When ever I go to the next frame it doesn’t show any gray outline pls help it’s really hard with out
make drawing of like 2 frames then be on and frame and go to View>Onion skin>Previous then it will work out
I'm having an issue with polytool in which I can't delete or undo any lines drawn with it. I can't find anything online about it, so does anyone know what's the issue?
why it dosent work
when i add a frame the frame 1 dissapers and doesnt become little less gray like the video
make drawing of like 2 frames then be on and frame and go to View>Onion skin>Previous then it will work out
Wow, you explained it very well. Thank you so much.
i accidentally closed the color palette, brush tools, timeline etc how do i bring it back
Is it possible to size?
when I draw something and I click the plus icon to move to another frame, the drawing in the first frame disappears, it doesn't become grayish, what am I doing wong?
Can we just insert some shapes of some more drawing tools in pencil2d if yes pls make a video.......
as far as i know you cant do that in pencil2d......you can try making circles in ms paint and then copy pasting it in here
um. i pressed the X button on a couple of
the tool bars and stuff and i dont know
how to get it back to normal :/
can someone tell me how to get it back to normal?
...pls
go to windows and click them back
how can i rotate drawings? it's annoying to redraw everything but with a different angle
thanks for sharing
3:26 how did you fill that circle with color without the white stuff around the edges? I have the same brush settings before drawing the line, but after the colour filling the white stuff is there :(
Everytime I change color it changes the color of like half the stuff I have as black like let's say
I draw a rainbow
I do red now I wanna do green I do green but then the red becomes green
Thanks!
Hi! I accidentally clicked the X button for the tools on the sides, I don't
Know how to get back that, please help.
Press Command (Control For Windows) 1-7
This video helped me thanks
when I on drawn on the first Frame, There was no outline on the next frame
why pressing the frame makes the color black and what is that?
at 6:24 why is it I cannot see images at frame one when I added the second frame
hi i need help all my tools are gon i prast the x button
press ctrl+1 ctrl+2 till ctrl +8
Hello, please help me I accidentally did something and now my screen on pencil2D is angled different
why pressing the frame makes the color black adn what is that?
how do you make a perfect circle
how to tilt your selected area once we select it using the selection tool? pls reply fast
What screen are you using? And how to do zoom in and out during screen recording ?
Hello tj i need some help. my gray outline wonmt work! can you help me?
Hey can you duplicate multiple frames in pencil 2d, and can you move any frame freely without effecting the other frames?
Good question. Yes, there is a button right above the timeline to duplicate the frame. To move a frame, just left click on it and hold and drag it around. It will not affect the other frame in the timeline, unless it is released on top of another key frame.
@@TJFREE does that button, the button above the timeline duplicate only one frame or all selected frames?
@@cractrakofficial8890 It is only the selected frame. I've only been able to move all the selected frames, not copy or cut for some reason. I think this is a bug. The cut, copy paste seem to only work on the single highlighted/active frame.
@@TJFREE exactly 🤔
Anyways thanks for helping man 👍 keep up the great work
Idk why, but when I add a frame the drawing just disappear or remain with the same opacity...Idk if I messed with something...but, pls help me because it does not work
tj, which software do you use for recording your keypresses?
awesome
Im gonna start an animation channel and adobe animation didnt go well but i bought it but this works finee
I can't erase the polyline at all. Help me
How do I share this with my friends if they dont have pencil2D and I want to save it as a video?
can i ask i dowloadet this and when i create new key i cant ssee the layer of the previous one
Thank you for tutorial
Hey! Love your videos man, trying to get into animation and your tutorials are perfect for it! But just one thing, before I discovered your videos I kinda messed around with the settings in 2D Pencil. So now, Im missing some of the options in the Display section the default settings let you use, I tried the Set back to Default Settings but nothing good happened out of that. Any idea how I can fix it?
EDIT: Nevermind im a brainlet and just found out how to fix it.
Tell me how.
why is my preivous frame not gray? :(
if u use camera layer, does it mean u can use some scans ?
Hello tell me one thing. Is Synfig Studio better than this software? I just want to do basic 2D animation. Should I learn this or directly learn Synfig Studio.
I'm no expert, but I tried synfig and the main issue I had is that there is little to no tutorial videos out there. Or at least there wasn't when I tried using it. Could be different now.
i tried to find pencil2d animation software in iPad pro but it was not in search please help
how would I save this in a format that can be uploaded to UA-cam?
PLS SOME ONE HELPHOW DO I SEE LAST FRAME WITH OUTGOING TO IT
how can i download a perfect circle.... please reply..🙏🙏
Is there any way to make stabilizer better?Like on medibang I use the stabilizer on 31,and I just cant draw without it
i dont see the display panel
sir how to set the frame size
Are you able to tilt a drawing (Not the entire screen) and reposition it?
Nice 2d software. Easy to use. I think it is a digital way of making flip books. Just kidding, I know flip books are different than 2d animation. I am a blender user. But I think it would be helpful for me to make rough sketches and key poses.
thanks bro
Will you ever do any 3D animation programs, such as Blender or Miku Miku Dance?
Yes, I'd like to do some Blender tutorials this year.
which version of Pencil2D are you using?
because I'm using v0.6.6 and didn't get the greyed out when changing frame
same here
my frame timeline keeps going away please help me
Can I know what is super L? I am using Ubuntu
why didnt you tell us how to use the onion skin?
Is there a circle tool in pencil 2d?
thx
hey is there a ruler tool?
:( mine doesn't look anything like yours, although it did in the download and install on windows
..Is this the better version of Flipaclip?
also, 3:31 baldi sound?
I just downloaded it but do you know how to work with a bigger display like 1280 by 720?
Can you do another one of these but up to date?
Does anyone know how to erase the sketch of a drawing and not the final tracing over it?
How to draw a perfect circle shape using Pencil2D..?
just draw a circle
Thanks, i lcan teach English and animation in the same time 🙂!
Might become handy when my beloved MS paint is taken out of Windows
Yes, Pencil feels a lot like MS Paint, but with added frame and timeline tools for 2D animation.
@@TJFREE what about circle
Can you change the canvas size? I really need to know ant this would help so much!
Yes,you can
how can we share animation in instagram or such made with it then?
i accidentally click the x how to bring them back?
YAY I FIXED IT
hey how do i see the previous frames i downloaded it and watched ur tutorials but when i draw the first frame and move to the next its like fully gone so i cant see the 1st one, on ur video when u moved to the next fram the first frame was still shown but like lightly
not sure if you are still using the program but i just downloaded it and had the same issue, after a bit of messing around i figured out that to fix that there is a panel on the left bottom side called 'previous slide' it is above the 'timeline' bar. click on the onion skin button and those transparent frames will show up, ive set mine to 15 but you dont have to. hopefully that helps, have a good day :)
@@spaceriley3890 It did help me at least, Thanks!
can i add text in it?
Which software was used for this animation
pencil2d
Thanks, I realized.
Is there any tool that rotates a picture? For example, I want to animate a shotgun. It'll kick backwards, but it also needs to have some vertical recoil.
Did you figure it out yet?
@@SlizeBrawlstars i'm using aseprite now and i'm learning pixelart, but no i never figured it out
@@ultimateinternetman4335 there is no function like that in the app lol..
@@SlizeBrawlstars yeah you can rotate pictures in aseprite, its hella easy
When I tried to add another frame with the plus sign below, I didn't see a grey-ed out image of the previous frame to draw over. Did I do something wrong, and of I did, is there a way I can fix it?
i had the same issue!
I've tried using this program so many times before, and that's always the part that holds me back i have yet to find a fix to this, and was really hoping somebody here would know how to fix it. lol..
I know this was a month ago, but I may have figured out the issue. go to view>onion skin and make sure that PREVIOUS is highlighted.
@@stephenboschmann5419 Thanks, I managed to quickly solve the problem with your advice. Your comment is useful for future learners.
@@stephenboschmann5419
You're a life saver! I'm just trying to get into animation and was stuck on this. I know your comment was 2 years ago... but it still works
my eraser wont work
lol i have a mouse pad do you know how to zoom with mousepad
2 fingers on mousepad, fingers go out.
or
you put 2 fingers on your mousepad, and- nevermind.
wow