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Hi I'm quite new to tv paint, I have been animating a video using the air brush, with an aspect of 100 and size 8, and I've been noticing that although the brush is usually drawing the way I want, sometimes i find that even after exporting, the line is very pixelated. I suspect that it may have something to do with drawing on a rotated canvas, but i'm not sure why that would be the case, or how to work around it. Any ideas? ...My project is 1920 X 1080, i have attached an image showing the pixelating in the line, its cropped from an exported png file. Thank you !!

hello fm, and welcome,

what's your tvpa version, and what OS are you using ?

did you color-fill the character on the same (line)layer, or on a separated color layer ?
if the color is separated (recommanded imo), can you crop the "line only" of your drawing,
to see who's the culprit ...
btw, why don't you use a pen brush instead than a "tiny" airbrush ?
airbrush at very small size isn't as smooth as a that ...
I think a pen brush with the right settings (AA = on) would do the job probably with a better quality.

thank you! I am using TV Paint 10.5, OSX 10.9.4... I will definitely be colouring on a separate layer from now on! I prefer the varied weight of the tiny air brush... and find that even when I use a pen tool the pixelating is still happening. I have attached an image showing the pixelating on just the line, with both pen (with AA = on) and airbrush (with the settings I have been using).

is your project maybe set to field: upper/lower ?
It should always be set to Progressive

Peter Wassink wrote:is your project maybe set to field: upper/lower ?
It should always be set to Progressive

Peter beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing .

In the Startup Panel, make sure that Field is set to Progressive . (not upper first or lower first)

Hi thanks yes it is already set to progressive.

what was your pen settings ? ... and how much your grabbed view is zoomed in your picture ?
I mean the "pixilating" lines could be on the screen (specially when the preview isn't exactly at 100%, or rotated),
but not in the exported file .

btw, why do you activate the smoothing feature, but with a "0" amount ...?
if you don't want any line smoothing, it would be better to check it OFF.

Hi, I'm having the same problem in TV Paint 11 with a Mac OS 10.14.2. I also have it set to "progressive", here is a JPG I exported to show that it exports pixelated as well.

Hello ! Ijust found a solution to this issue and wanted to share, try to go to 'window' >> 'settings' >> 'shape settings' and increase smoothing number. For me it was 2 and I pushed it up to 15 and it works just fine