Dean wrote: ↑17 Jun 2020, 15:53
Hello,
The tutorials available on Youtube are the exact same as the Elephorm ones.
Due to our past agreement with Elephorm, we can't have them taken down from their website yet.
Hello again,
It is currently impossible for us to go abroad and meet people from studios to do interview with them.
However, recently we have been posting some shorter videos of professionals sharing their experience with TVPaint from home for our IGTV project We are so grateful for these.
Here is a quick video showing how to use the SHARPEN mode in TVPaint 11.5.3 to fix blurry line quality . This is a feature in TVPaint that not many people seem to know about , but it's very useful. This is TVPaint's equivalent to the Sharpen Filter in Photoshop. It's actually better than Photoshop's Sharpen filter in my opinion because it allows you to selectively apply the sharpening to only a portion of a drawing if you prefer by drawing over only certain lines using the Pen tool , or you can apply the sharpening to the entire drawing by using the Filled Rectangle tool set to Sharp mode.
How to customize the workspace in TVPaint. (sorry for the annoying rumbling noise from the mic.) To declutter the interface you can press the 0 key as a shortcut to instantly 'Toggle (hide) the Timeline and Layer Panel' or you can set another key to the shortcut 'Close/Restore L+R Drawers and Timeline', which will hide everything except the drawing canvas window. (I use the J key, but you can set that shortcut to whatever available key you prefer). OR if you have TVPaint PRO you can set up four different Rooms (workspaces) , each one configured differently depending on what you need in each workspace and easily switch between rooms by using a keyboard shortcut.
This is a brief demonstration of setting up FLIPS panel in TVPaint to use different keyboard shortcuts for flipping between KEYS Only (keyboard shortcut F) , flipping between KEYS and BREAKDOWNS (keyboard shortcut G), and flipping between ALL drawings (keyboard shortcut H) . You can use any keyboard shortcuts you want, I just happen to like using F, G, and H.
Enable the Subtitles on this video (no voiceover) -
These are not "tutorials on how to use TVPaint" as such , in terms of delving into detail of how all the tools work, but watching these animation demonstrations do show the process of animating a scene in TVPaint. These are real-time demonstrations (using TVPaint) by animator James Baxter.
(To watch these videos in FULL SCREEN mode you must click through to watch on YouTube because
the full screen mode doesn't work on these embedded videos)
For new users who may be unaware of these videos I wanted to mention Terrence Walker's excellent "TVPaint Particle Magic" tutorials. Even though these were made years ago in TVPaint 9.5 the material is still relevant in TVPaint 11.7 because the Particles FX hasn't changed. It's a powerful tool , but can be intimidating to learn. Terrence's tutorials take the mystery out of it. Highly recommended.
Svengali wrote: ↑28 Feb 2015, 15:57
The website, Ctrlpaint.com was created by Matt Kohr. It is a Photoshop oriented site that offers hundreds of free, bite-sized tutorials sorted into extremely well thought-out categories. Each lasts about five minutes, often referring to other, earlier tutorial content.
In addition, he monetizes his efforts by offering a collection of ten or more bundled, advanced, in-depth tutorials which can be subscribed to (@ $10.00 a pop).
In addition to the organization, Matt is a master of presentation with friendly, well thought out, conversational narratives. Each tutorial features visual examples and recorded painting demonstrations that "show" as much as "tell".
The entire site demonstrates what software tutorials could be.
D.T. Nethery wrote: ↑11 Jul 2022, 20:00
These are not "tutorials on how to use TVPaint" as such , in terms of delving into detail of how all the tools work, but watching these animation demonstrations do show the process of animating a scene in TVPaint. These are real-time demonstrations (using TVPaint) by animator James Baxter.
Peter Wassink originally discovered and posted this suggested method to create a non-destructive (not "baked-in") cross-dissolve effect using layer Blend modes.
See Peter's post here: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7024&p=63000&hilit ... ade#p63000
I'm sorry to say I neglected to verbally credit Peter in the following video tutorial, but I did credit him in the Video Description and in the Comments section on YouTube.
Here is the tutorial on how to create a non-destructive cross-dissolve effect in TVPaint:
(if you want to watch the tutorial in Full Screen mode, click through to watch it on YouTube , because for some reason the TVPaint Forum does not allow the option to play embedded YouTube videos in Full Screen mode. )
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*NOTE that in the last part of the video I mention that when doing this in TVPaint 12 by placing the layers in Folders there is currently a rendering bug in TVPaint 12 that prevents you from seeing the cross-dissolve effect during normal playback within TVPaint. (This rendering bug is in the current version of TVPaint 12 as of June 29, 2024.)
However, you can see the cross-dissolve effect when you scrub the timeline and you will see it when you render the project to a .mov or .mp4 video file , but when you playback at normal speed in TVPaint 12 it does not render the cross-dissolve effect for some reason. I am sure the TVPaint developers will fix this rendering bug at some point , so if you're watching my video tutorial in the future , that part about the rendering bug in TVPaint 12 is probably fixed.
Animator, TVPaint Beta-Tester, Animation Educator and Consultant.
MacOS 12.7.1 Monterey , Mac Mini (2018) , 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7,
16 GB RAM , TVPaint PRO 11.7.1 - 64bit , Wacom Cintiq 21UX 2nd Gen.
,Wacom Intuos Pro 5 , Wacom driver version 6.3.39-1
Hello David,
Thanks a lot for your tutorial, that's a good solution to do a cross fade easily.
*NOTE that in the last part of the video I mention that when doing this in TVPaint 12 by placing the layers in Folders there is currently a rendering bug in TVPaint 12 that prevents you from seeing the cross-dissolve effect during normal playback within TVPaint. (This rendering bug is in the current version of TVPaint 12 as of June 29, 2024.)
Thanks for the feedback, I will talk with our devs. On my side, I don't have your issue about the buggy preview with the folders.
Léo Fernandez TVPaint Q&A and Lead Animator, TVPaint Beta-Tester
Windows 11 AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX with Radeon Graphics CPU @ 3.60 GHz,
32 GB RAM , TVPaint PRO 11.7.3 and 12 - 64bit , Wacom Cintiq 24 Pro.
Wacom driver version 6.4.2-3
