How do you use the chalk brush with the FloodFill tool?

[Matey]

Hello everyone! This is my first post, so I'm not even sure if I'm in the right place for this question.

I was wondering if it's possible to use the Chalk tool with the FloodFill tool, as this would speed up my work loads. What I'm currently having to do is draw my line work with the Black pencil, then create a layer underneath and then paint in the colours with the chalk.

If I could just stay on the same layer as the line work and just click once wherever I want to FloodFill with colour, then that'd be great.
I have tried selecting FloodFill, then turning on Paper05 (which is the same one that the chalk brush uses I think) and FloodFilling in with that, which works, but unfortunately the colour comes out really pale and translucent (which is no good, as you can see artwork through it on layers underneath). Also it doesn't have the 3D relief quality that you get when painting with the chalk brush.

I did notice with the chalk brush selected, if you disable the paper effect, the brush turns back to a thick oil paint or something. So this seems why when painting with it, its opaticy is greater and this'll give it the 3D relief effect. This will also possibly explain why the colour is so translucent and flat when just using the FloodFill over the Paper05.

Hope this makes some form of sense and sorry for the long post!

Thanks

-matey-

[slowtiger]

I could think of several tricks. However, it depends on which style you want to achieve.

http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a describes some tricks to be done with colour on different layers. I think in your case it may be best to first create a layer with solid colour because you can use it as a stencil for whatever you need to do. Example: you may use the stencil to create a layer with just the background colour, then use the fill tool to create a fill which now will be solid. On this, still with the stencil active, you may draw with crayons. (Stencil vs. selection is dealt with here: http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2934)

I don't know your style, but maybe you can use a "living texture"? Create a short loop of maybe 10 frames with applying lots of crayon strokes quite randomly. Use the stencil again to have this loop be the basic colouring of you shapes.

[Matey]

Thanks for your reply

I'm wanting to keep the line work and colours of my characters on one layer because I'm later hoping to use the Multi-Plane camera and so it may get a bit complicated if they were on seperate layers. Also, I don't want to paint in each frame by hand, as I don't have much time left on the project. That's why I was after a way to be able to just FloodFill in the colours, but so they looked like I'd painted them using the chalk tool.

I've worked out a way to do it though! I drew out the linework, then FloodFilled flat colours where needed on the same layer, then I turned on the paper and then: Effects -> Distortion -> Bump -> Changed the Source to Paper05 and lastly the Depth to 300 and applied it.

Here's a quick example I made to demonstrate what it looks like

I'm rather interested about what you was saying in your previous post about Stencils. I don't know what they are, or what they do, would you be able to explain? I had a look in the TVPaint documentation, but didn't find much on them.

Cheers again.

-matey-