Changing color of lines

[CoreyAnimator]

Hello, huge fan of this program!!! My concern is how exactly do you change the color of your linework?Thanks !


-Actually i got the color effects to work, but for some reason they wouldn't work before, even with preview on. But everythings ok now! This is the greatest animation program ever !

[ZigOtto]

oh, several ways to do the job,

one of them consists to lock the Alpha channel, then fill* the screen with the color you want,
*set the "flood fill" options to : "density only", range = 255
for an entire AnimLayer, select All frames in the timeline, then "Enter" (= re-Apply).

another way is the Color Curves_FX (mode RGBA),
don't change the Alpha curve, modify the R, G and B to suit your wish.
(see pict.)

[Peter Wassink]

This is the greatest animation program ever !

i agree! there is no better!

sometimes all i do here is focus on what doesn't work.
...thanks for reminding me.

[M]

Thanks for posting this info, but could I ask if it's possible to re-colour lines in different colours?
I've cleaned up a drawing in black, and would now like to turn these black lines into coloured lines; ie: a flesh colour line, and various other colours for the clothes.

Is there a "lock transparency" function or similar?

Thanks.

[Peter Wassink]

Is there a "lock transparency" function or similar?

Thanks.

there is exactly that.

TVP has 4 'channel lock buttons' they are the 'blackgradient', Red, Green, Blue buttons sitting there in the menubar at the top of the interface next to the proxy bar.

you'll want to use the black(=alpha) one

[M]

Thanks for the info.

I'd spent a lot of the morning looking for that. I posted the question, went back to TVP and found it straight away. Sometimes to stop looking for something is the best way to find it.

I suppose the only way to recolour parts of the line after a cel has been painted is to have the paint on a separate layer. Is that right?

Thanks for your comments on this and other posts.

[malcooning]

Zig, very nice drawing up therein the pic!

[Peter Wassink]

I suppose the only way to recolor parts of the line after a cel has been painted is to have the paint on a separate layer. Is that right?

yes, generally you can say it is best to color on separate layer (which is easier now that you can do paintbucket fills on a different layer then where your lines are on.)

it goes both ways ... its easier to recolor lines
and also easier to adjust the coloring

the disadvantage of having two layers (not handy to edit)
can be minimized by using the CL(ean) button from the instance panel.

this creates an empty copy of the timed animlayer, with all the instance lenghts identical to the original animation layer, ready to color

[malcooning]

I suppose the only way to recolour parts of the line after a cel has been painted is to have the paint on a separate layer. Is that right?

not quite. There are ways of doing it, and usually depends on the type of the line. Solid, clean, thicker lines are much easier to alter. You can always use the Magic Wand Select tool (after playing around with its settings) to select the line, and then color within the selection.

there are few other methods, as is always in tvpaint.

but like Peter wrote, it's always better to create you animation with the software in mind, and therefore have line and color on separate layers. Me, I personally prefer to work in as many layers as my mind can grasp. which means that sometimes I have 20 animated layers just for one character. But that's a control-freak we're talking here...

[Peter Wassink]

But that's a control-freak we're talking here...

aren't we all? it comes with the territory