Pencil 2D [Free Animation Software][Tutorial Deluxe Edition]
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Directory to key parts of the tutorial below.
This tutorial wraps up everything I know about Pencil 2D into one heart racing, action-packed video for the discerning animator.
Check out the other Pencil 2D for details and to watch me draw!
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2:54 user interface
4:10 timeline overview 21:33 timeline demo
5:47 import files
8:54 palettes
10:28 export files
13:06 preferences walkthrough
18:09 "view" menu
23:08 layers & keyframes
25:46 bitmap layer
27:07 tools (bitmap)
30:54 vector layers & tools
32:24 select tool tips
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![Animation Blocking In Pencil 2D [ Featuring Jack Septiceye ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6LMCYB53wCA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Animation Blocking In Pencil 2D [ Featuring Jack Septiceye ]](/img/tr.png)
But how do I change the size of the canvas????
Right click the camera layer. You can change the size there.
double click on the camera layer name
thanks this really help full
2:54 user interface
4:10 timeline overview 21:33 timeline demo
5:47 import files
8:54 palettes
10:28 export files
13:06 preferences walkthrough
18:09 "view" menu
23:08 layers & keyframes
25:46 bitmap layer
27:07 tools (bitmap)
30:54 vector layers & tools
32:24 select tool tips
i just realized this is in the description already.... lol
Thanks Tim. I found many of my timeline links in the description broke after a UA-cam update. I will use yours if you don't mind.
sounds good, @@GrifNMore !
Tim V thx this helped me XD
@@GrifNMore yo, you can have youtube show the timeline in the video if you have a timestamp starting from 0:00 at the beginning. so just put like "0:00 intro" above all those maybe
I'm just getting started with Pencil, and this video was incredibly helpful. Well done, and thank you!
My pleasure. I plan on doing update videos with the major new releases of Pencil, so stay tuned.
Very impressed. It pretty much works in the same way Flash used back in the day! but without the price tag! Appreciate all your hard work.
This is such wholesome content. This is the kind of thing that's saving UA-cam.
That is the best comment. Thank you.
right?? :)
Best tutorial so far but still no one has shown how to actually make an animation.
I started to do that. ua-cam.com/video/6LMCYB53wCA/v-deo.html
Hahahahaha the please subscribe image though, "I'm not trying to... it's the image I had!"
Hey everyone! So listen. I'm trying to make this channel a thing so I have more time to bring you great tutorial. Could you please just hit that subscribe button so I can get those numbers up? I promise not to bug you :)
I always take the time to answer your questions, and I looooove looking at your channels to see what your up to.
This is fantastic. My friends and I are graduating art school and many of us can't afford Harmony and the other high end animation softwares that we learned in college. It's great to see a more accessible alternative. Thanks so much for these tutorials, and good luck to the Pencil 2D developers!
Alas pooryorik. If only we could all afford the high-end programs. I will pass your thanks on to the devs! They are pretty active on discord if you want to jump in.
I haven't used the program a lot yet, but just because you made it free and even made your own tutorials , i appreciate you so much!
Gracias!
i am about to watch a 35 minute tutorial on a program i've never seen on my life to draw a single meme idea and it will be worth it
not only was this a great tutorial, but you give off such a positive energy. thanks!
Thanks Marshall. That is so kind of you to say.
Very thoughtful and thorough tutorial, it helps a bunch :)
Thank you, Austin.
thank you for making this video, this is the best pencil 2d tutorial on the web
Thank you so much. I only hope I can help others make awesome animations!
Thank you for showing everything practical! Much better than just telling us what buttons do in my opinion.
My pleasure. I learn from doing and seeing a thing in action.
me: *downloads pencil2d*
also me: what the hell am i supposed to do?? *messes up everything*
me: oh frick
also thanks alot that helped me
(i was playing with the layers as a frame XD)
Hahahaha. I'm glad you got it sorted.
Thank you so much! I just did my first animation with Pencil 2d. I was able to publish already! I can't wait to make one that's more than 3 seconds!
That is fantastic Theresa! 😍
Thank you so much, just got a drawing tablet for my birthday and I was looking for some tutorials for Pencil. I liked and subscribed cause you deserve it.
Thanks so much. Congrats on the tablet!
Thank you so much!
I would of never of figured out how to do some things if it weren't for this video!
oh boy thank you ik im really late to the party but this helped so much thank you
Your just in time :)
This is a fantastic and useful tutorial! Thank you for putting this together!! You make it look easy!
You are very kind. Thank you. Just do a thing all the time and ease will follow.
this was so useful!
Thank you for this, it been making UA-cam videos for about 8 years and I've always wanted to do animation but never have the knowledge to do animation. I think I'm going to try this one
Awesome carpo! Have fun.
I was just watching some of your videos. I think we are aligned :) You may like this animation. ua-cam.com/video/BOrD9o6E2cc/v-deo.html
I just made my first animation with Pencil 2D! Your tutorial was really helpful! Thank you!
Awesome! I'm going to go look.
Excellent. Really clear introductory run-through. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
You rly need more attention in UA-cam
you're awesome
LimeLemon Playz you are very kind thank you.
nice work bro!Go ahead!
Thank you :)
You are the best thing since Bob Ross.
Ha! Thanks. Maybe I should grow the fro?
@@GrifNMore
Haha you could...... but its more about the positive vibes that are conducive to a learning atmosphere. Bob had that down. And so do you. Keep up the great work!
Thank you SIR. Your tutorial helped me out alot. I was trying to animate in KRITA, but its to tedious. Plus you have to install some code to actually export the movie you create. And it doesn't work sometimes. Im glad you dived into this in detail. I like to know how to go from start to finish, even if the visuals are simple.
very underated channel
Thank you
Thank you for this Russian subtitle! I'm from Russia!
I hope they came out correct.
Awww i'm happy for you. You are almost at 1,000 subscribers
Thank you infobug.
Life saver on 2 things
Custom palates without the defaults in the way
Rotating a selection
I'm just getting started with animating, this video helped a ton!
Good luck to you!
@@GrifNMore Thank you!
Thank you so much😃
That was a quick tutorial. Appreciate the narrative
You're just awesome! :)
Your so nice.
You are so great teacher !! you teach so calmly well !
Thank you so much.
Man you're AWESOME! :-)
Well thank you. 😀
Thank you so much! Subscribed.
I am at 13:25min now and grin.^^ I am a noob at this topic, so first of all wanna say: THANK YOU! As educator and student of Cognitive Science I absolutely appreciate people who share their knowledge. If they are good "teachers" and even sympathic it's a true benefit for mankind..! And you are cool man^^ Translating is a problem though, and I shiffered after reading the first lines of auto translation (German). The idea to improve the translation (voluntarily) came pretty soon. If there are other vids having priority etc. tell me 🤗
Danke
you are awesome thankyouuuu
Aww thanks!
Very nice explanation of all major features. Thanks !!
Thank you for the encouraging comment.
Thanks, i liked it a lot
Good man, a perfect tutorial!!! Thanks a million!
Thank you.
very helpful! thanks :)
Thank you very much - this was very helpful. I am planning onto moving to the next steps in making videos. One is animation.
I'm glad the video helped! I have some stuff on my process, story telling, and other helpful tips if your interested.
Media Resonate I am, definitely, interested. Just made my first 10 seconds of cartoon. Thank you so much!
Hey Everyone. I just made a NEW THING! It's this sort of Sci-Fi newscast from some another world. Check It Out! Pleeeaase.
I will be doing a whole series of tutorials on the process, so get subscribed and stay tuned.
ua-cam.com/video/F_VqO18PVSc/v-deo.html
You are so sweet, thank you :)
That's very kind of you to say :)
This tutorial is great! I just downloaded the program and getting familiarized with it. Are there any lasso tools in this program?
The selection tool should work for that Angel. I've been in Character Animator doing things for a bit so my memory is failing me.
Thank you! Very helpful :)
Great tutorial :)
Yoyo Zhuang Thank you. I'm glad it helped.
Thanks so much for this video, you deserve way more subscribers
I appreciate that!
Thank you for your tutorial, it's very useful!
Are there any brushes for Pencin2D or possibilities to import Photoshop/Tvpaint- of whatever-brushes in to the Pencil2D? Ot to use texture brushes? Thank you!
Hi Sofia. Unfortunately the Pencil Dev team is very small and unable to get to those features at this time.
Thank you! This video was exactly what I needed!
So kind of you to say.
This video helped me a LOT! Thank you! Liked and subscribed! ;)
I'm glad it helped Hema. Thanks for the comment.
really helpful
me: draws** realizing I did not actually change the timeline and the whole thing is a mess**
You will remember next time :)
yay i,ll make animations in my channel
Woo! It's going to be awesome!
Your tutorials helped a lot! Thank you very much!
I'm glad they helped Sophie.
i would just like to thank you so so so much! today i made my first animation ever and im quite proud of it! it is a little bit choppy but it still looks good! thank youuu!
That is Awesome! Did you post it?
Thanks for such a great video! I just downloaded this program earlier today. Just a quick question, are you aware of any current problems with copy/paste? It's not working for me at all. I've been researching and it appears there was a patch for it back in October. Like I said though, I just downloaded it so I should already have the patch. Any advice for me? Thanks.
I will look at my version this evening. You can also hang out on the Pencil discord. You tend to get a fast response there. discordapp.com/invite/8FxdV2g
I'm trying to add sound to my animation, but it won't show up like it shows up on yours... I've tried mp3 and .wav files and nothing has worked!!
Make sure you make a sound layer first and select it before importing audio. Let me know if the audio file shows up on that layer.
i mean, before i had it selected and everything and nothing worked, but I just tried again and it worked. It's funny how once you ask for help it immediately starts working... thank you so much, haha!
Umm glad I could help :)
Thank you!
Did I hear you say imported audio must be in mp3 format only in order to work with Pencil 2D?
.wav is best. You can get Audacity free to convert formats and record audio.
Thank You!! ..Somuch...
Thanks for the tutorial! Really helped me along with my animating! :)
I'm glad I could help. Keep going with it!
Please lower the background noise by about 2 decibels next time. Otherwise, great video
My mic is much better now :) Thank you for the compliment and critique.
Thanks for the tutorial! Really helped :)
Glad it helped! Happy animating.
Thank you so much this video was extremely useful!!!
My pleasure.
what a sweet dude
😊
Thank you! You are really making good content!
I appreciate that!
I seem to recall seeing a screen overlay on one of your videos for a free program to convert video/audio files to mp3 but I can't seem to find it now. Would you mind posting it in the video description?
Audacity for audio. www.audacityteam.org/
Thank you!
Thanks!
nice video bro helped me a lot! Thank you for your time put into this :)
My pleasure. I'm glad it helped.
thanks for the valuable information
much appreciated!!
Thank you! You are awesome! ♡
Awwwwww. Thanks. So are you.
Great tutorial but I didn't see anything regarding armaturing Is that not possible available on this freeware?
Pencil only handles hand drawn animation. For armatures check out my Adobe Character Animator tutorials.
Thank you so much!!!!!
My pleasure :)
How do I do clean up in Pencil 2D? Do I just do a bit map layer over it.
Hi Douglas. That's what I did. In this video I did 2 cleanup passes. Usually I start with a light blue color for my rough drawing. I then lock that layer, make a new bitmap layer, and draw over. ua-cam.com/video/i6TmRD-GuKQ/v-deo.html
Is there a way to draw on top of the backgroud image? When i try to do so it dosn't appear
Laura Hedegaard Hi Laura. You need to make a new layer above the layer with the background. In not at a computer right now so pardon my limited answer. Check the video description for a link to the section on backgrounds.
Thank u, i'll try that :)
Please let me know how it goes. I would like to make sure your problem get's solved so you can make some great animation. Here is the section in case you couldn't find it. ua-cam.com/video/nCX55XLx1F0/v-deo.html
I also post some little extras on this page. www.mediaresonate.com/pencil-2d-complete-tutorial-speed-run-deluxe-edition/
Media Resonate i quickly tried it before I had to go do something and it seemed to be working very well. Thanks for your help!:)
I used to use Pencil on Mac all the time and Vector layers were very important. Eventually I found they weren't working the same and I couldn't really overcome the problem. I haven't used Pencil in years, does anyone know if the problem is solved?
Vector is still WIP
Hi GrifNMore. I want to make a suggestion: How about dividing your 35 minutes tutorial into 2-5 minute parts where each part shows ONE functionality? I REALLY know how these very basic functions of a software like filesaving works. I'm really NOT interested in details like re-arranging tool-windows right at the beginning of such a video. First of all I would like to get an overview about the CONCEPTS. Take a look how TJ FREE does it in his tutorials.
Great suggestions. This video is quite old now and I would do it differently now. I may get to doing more practical tutorials on Pencil 2D
Thank you for this
You're so welcome!
You can see the resolution over here *put mouse off screen*.
Resolution is literally nowhere, what are you talking about, how do you find it and how do you change it?
Pardon my error. You can change the resolution (scene size) by double clicking a camera layer. 1080 x 720 is good for HD on UA-cam. 1920 x 1080 is also good.
I've done that but it seems to have made it even more pixelly and the brushes are just huge. I use 1920 by 1080 and opened a file i created in paint that is 1080 by 720 px and that image is larger than the screen given to me.
Also I got it to work one time and when i put an image into it, it wouldn't let me draw on it.
This page has some additional information. www.mediaresonate.com/pencil-2d-complete-tutorial-speed-run-deluxe-edition/
It sounds like you are zoomed into the canvas if your brush is more pixilated. As far as drawing problems go, make sure you have a bitmap layer selected. This makes it active.
I watched the video lol
I know I wasn't zoomed it because I could still see the grey. When I changed resolution it just made it do that instead of the resolution i picked. Maybe it's because I hit enter on my keyboard instead of clicking ok?
Also I definitely had bitmap layer selected. Wouldn't let me draw on the image. Just did a line and as soon as I let go it disappeared.
starts 2:21
I’m not sure if anyone answered this, but I have a more modern Wacom that does a similar thing to what you described. Sometimes the driver just...stops working and I have to reinstall it. I did some research a while back and apparently it’s a problem in most of their products and can’t really be fixed. Of course, this was a couple years ago; so maybe someone has discovered a cure.
Windows updates will often mess up the Wacom with windows ink. Disabling some of the ink features often corrects these problems. Thanks for sharing your own experience Lauren.
Have there been any updates since this video was made? I'm planning on making an animated series because I have too much time and an overactive imagination.
An overactive imagination is a great thing. There have been a few minor updates. I did a release video but haven't kept up. Show me if you make something :)
can i use this when animating with an animation tablet? and how do i add audio to my anaimtion?
Audio can be imported to an audio track at the bottom. You should have no problem drawing with a tablet.
After drawing the background layer, when it comes to the moving foreground character, the background picture becomes slightly hazy. Plz. Help me. What can I do?
Tips for a better experience:
-Run at 1.5x speed
-Set to Spanish captions, then hit Auto-Translate and English.
Ta-da, the video is now shorter and you have captions in english!
Aw jeeze did I mess up the captions?
I sound so cool at 1.5 speed.
my problem is it doesn't show what I recently drew so I cant animate its just playing pictures.
Try pressing "O" and "CTRL+O" That turns on the onion skin.
Thankyou media resonate
thank you so much!
My pleasure. Thanks for the thanks :)
Great tutorial! Is there a way to select and duplicate multiple key frames at once?
I don't know but am asking the devs right now. I will respond as soon as I have an answer.
Excellent! Thanks for asking them for me! I just subscribed too!
Follow up question: Is there a way to increase the size of the screen that animates to fill the screen? Zoom well, just zooms but it's be great if could adjust/increase the area that animates.
Thanks for the Sub. It Realy helps! So the answer to copying multiple keyframes is that it's not available but on the list.
For zooming, you can use ctrl + mouse wheel. Ctrl + up and down also works. You get an export size option when exporting a movie. For UA-cam HD, I recommend 1280 X 720. Just keep the aspect ratio in mind while you animate.
Thank you!!!
I finished an animation and wanted to preview it, but the option is gray and I have no idea what to do
I did a quick crossviewing about this video. It covers already a lot of details like rearrange toolboxes, doubling pictures between keyframes etc., etc. etc. Can somebody guide me to a MUCH more BASIC video that shows an even MUCH more simpler task/project and how it is done. Let's say something like there are two lines symbolising a pipe which slowly fills up with blue color symbolising filling the pipe with water
Can I use this with a Ugee Tablet? Otherwise, what are others using?
That tablet should work fine. I use a WACOM.
Do you use any eletronic drawing pen to paint with Penil2D ? Using mouse to draw is sort of inconvenient.
I use an older Wacom 21UX. You can get a starter wacom tablet or a Huion for $50. I highly recommend it if you can.
@@GrifNMore ok thanks, I'll take a look at that.
Just found this video and also the programme. I kinda don't get the onion skin. Can you explain that? Please. :)
The section on onion skinning is here. ua-cam.com/video/nCX55XLx1F0/v-deo.html
This lets you see a few frames ahead and behind the current frame you are drawing on.
I use it constantly in this short video where you can see my workflow.
ua-cam.com/video/6LMCYB53wCA/v-deo.html