So good. I watched this ages ago, but it just is so well explained.

Just found your channel today. I'm gonna binge all your videos, I'm so excited. This channel is just what I'm looking for! Learning the software is one thing, but understanding the pipeline and how experienced people do shit is super important for me.

god thank you so much for this. I'm a third year in animation taking a toonboom class and I havent been able to find much teaching material for absolute beginners, this was so easy to understand! I have become the toonboom master amongst my friends now, been helping them with their node networks all day :)

@StylusRumble

8 ай бұрын

Amazing! We need more people spreading the node-view love. It helps people so much.

This video totally blew my mind. I've been doing super simple lighting with tone and highlight nodes combined with applied peg transformations for a while. I always just assumed that anything other than that would be super complex, but this doesn't look too complex at all. I'm definitely going to be playing with this on my next project.

@StylusRumble

6 жыл бұрын

I was a bit afraid of this at first too. It's definitely something that could be complex if you really wanted to go bonkers with it, but getting started is pretty accessible. :)

Love to return to this video time to time when lighting nodes are needed, bc I forget how to use them pretty fast. Thank you for video!

Very good tutorials, clear voice, relaxed, and not rushed. Thanks

This is awesome Tracey! I've never been able to figure these tools out til now hehe.

you're awesome :) probably the best channel for learning toonboom!

Wow.. This ones like magic!

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it was really helpful! :D I'm from Brazil and it was not so hard for me to understand, you have a good teaching style. :)

this is si crazy :0 didnt even knew that was possible

Thanks for these tutorials. PLease please make more!

this is great! thank you.

DAAANG! Game changer!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Me following along: "Okay..... okay... move the little box to this little box... and... okay.... *pause okay.... *pause okay.... *pause*"

Крутой урок, спасибо большое. Трейси, ты лучшая)

Thanks so much 🤗

Thank you

Thank you soooooo much

It's so good, you just to BOOP the like button.

thanks

PLS EXPLAIN LIGHT-SHADOW ON FRAME BY FRAME ANIMATION METHOD

Nice one! But light position doesn’t appear in my scene…

Love your videos. Could you do a smoke effect using the particle generator?

@StylusRumble

6 жыл бұрын

You sure can! The big thing on that is to come up with sprites that have the look you want. I find it helps to have a few different kinds of smoke shapes so it doesn't look too samey. It's really easy to have it look like you've just stamped the same shape everywhere.

@HarveyDroke

6 жыл бұрын

Stylus Rumble could you make a video on that? No one, including Pluralsight, seems to explain how it’s done. Also even when I motion ease my pegs while animating it still looks robotic and not too smooth. Any tips?

Should take a look at Bill N Back, this thing got mad potential

@StylusRumble

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that on kickstarter, did it ever get finished?

@50cent22

3 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble yes the pilot got released recently: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWSVxrijcaaZf6w.html

Hey! Wanted to say I’ve been learning a lot from your channel so thank you so much for putting out videos! Also, do you have a version of Jammy that is demo animated like you have in this video? I’m not an animator but I wanted to play around with some compositing things so I needed a demo animation of the walk cycle :)

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

I never thought to keep any of the animated stuff. For compositing tests at work I usually just throw the rigged character in the scene doing nothing. With a character like jammy you probably wont see many of the biggest issues we get in shows. Usually the biggest comp hurdle is dealing with the animators using the Z axis to level the characters. So the arm is 4 miles ahead of the body, and once the comp flattens them out everything gets messy. :/

@MsBunniie

5 жыл бұрын

Oh ok yes I see how that would be cray! I’m building my portfolio to apply to animation company’s in Toronto and wanted to showcase some compositing techniques like lighting characters so I thought maybe showcasing a lit character in a walk cycle might be good.

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

If I was vetting a comp position, I wouldn't hold it against you if there wasn't any animation in your reel. Just having a pre-comp, post-comp comparison is fine. Often in 2D, fx and comp are one job. So rigging up some simple interactive lights or shadows are good to see. The character doesn't need to move but the prop light can move to show what your set up does. Remember, a job-reel isn't the same as a show reel. It doesn't need to be super cool or flashy to show you know how to do the job. :)

@MsBunniie

5 жыл бұрын

Stylus Rumble thank you so much for your advice! It’s very much appreciated. I love your channel and look forward to watching more videos in the future! :D I’ve learned a ton!

Hey I'm just wondering when you're working with the light position you press shift+f11 to bring up that camera and I'm trying to do that but nothing comes up on my program? :( the shortcut is the same for me as I checked my preferences just nothing seems to come up.. Hope you see this comment and thank you the tutorial is honestly great :)

Doesn't it really work with the camera zoom? the bevel does not keep the size...Harmony issue?

Hello Tracy, how to make light and shadow scale together with the character, or with the movement of the camera? Normal motion and rotation in advanced animation mode works, but scaling is incorrect.

@StylusRumble

4 жыл бұрын

Harmony has some inherent issues with scaling and interacting with the camera that we often have to fix manually. It's super frustrating!

Hi! I'd just like to ask, what do I do if the map of my character is super glitchy? Like there are squares inside instead of a clean bevel? : Awesome tutorial btw! It was super clear and straight to the point, and you explain so well. I was so excited to try it out but the glitch in my map was in the way. ;n;

@bubblegumbitch2971

2 жыл бұрын

So did u fix that? I have the same glitch and I don’t know how to fix it, pls help

@pattyPuuu

2 жыл бұрын

@@bubblegumbitch2971 yes and i had to change something in the properties! but I can't remember anymore since it's been 2 years and I didn't really use this method when we were in production :( but just explore the properties a little bit more I think!

HI! I;ve got a question, is there an option in toon boom for the transition of drawings? i mean if i had a front view of a character, and i want to pass to 3/4, in order to have a better and softer movement , thanks!!

@StylusRumble

6 жыл бұрын

There's no 1 button way to do it. If your drawings don't autmatically tween well, you may have to add in some drawing subs or look into morphing.

I think i getting better in Harmony... i learn so much from ure Videos..thx a lot...but one little criticism...after duplicating the puppet...u do very intresting things in the Node-View...but like Speedy-Gonzales ...PENG :-) ....Any way Thank a lot...ure a insperation and show me what is possible...even this Cranberry thing love it

@StylusRumble

4 жыл бұрын

some people have told me they slow the video down to .75 or .5 speed lol.

hello, its a great video, but i will like to use this effect with frame by frame animation. I just want to know that will it work and if yes if you can do some video of it thanks

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it will still work. More complex designs sometimes get a bit of weirdness, and you may need to paint in some mask overlays if you want shadows within the silhouette (like arm over body for example).This can just be another drawing, and use any colour to isolate pieces. You may also be able to use colour-selectors, if the item is a unique colour. It's a little easier with cutout, since you can isolate any of the pieces.

well, This video is pretty helpful, but when i press Shift+F11 , or select "control" on the view tab, nothing happens =[ do you know how to fix it?

@felidawn

5 жыл бұрын

Pepeu557 I’m having the same issue so if anybody knows! I’m also on a Mac if that makes any difference possibly...

@pepeu557

5 жыл бұрын

@@felidawn surprisingly, i'm still having this issue D':

@felidawn

5 жыл бұрын

Pepeu557 I’ve emailed support so if I figure it out I will tell you!

@DragonDaSilvahas_massive_chode

4 жыл бұрын

Pepeu557 go to view, show, control

@pablochamber411

3 жыл бұрын

@@DragonDaSilvahas_massive_chode nothing happens 😭

Which toon boom harmony do you use? I have toon boom essentials but does it still work the same?

@StylusRumble

4 жыл бұрын

I use Premium. It's the industry standard. Essentials has less features, most notably the node view. So a lot of my tutorials won't be easy to follow, or may include features your version doesn't have. There should be some kind of specific list on the toon boom website.

Nice tutorial but how can you add a constraint to the light so it can follow the character?

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

connect the light peg to whatever peg you want it to follow. It works like any other peg.

@womphg8288

5 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble O ok cool thank you so much

How do you make the handles, please and thank you.

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

You can just attach a drawing to the peg with any kind of handle shape, then use a visibility node to hide it from render views :)

When I hit Shift+ F11 nothing happens...when I go to view > show > controls, nothing happens there either...is it supposed to make the camera show up to adjust lighting? Is there any other way to make it appear?

@StylusRumble

3 жыл бұрын

This only works if you have selected a node that has special camera-window controls. For pegs, it only works if it's set to a 3D path. To show the handle that looks like a little camera you have to select the "light-Position" node and it has to be connected to the setup.

@frokachu

3 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble You saved me yet again! Thanks yet again : )

@StylusRumble

3 жыл бұрын

@@frokachu There are a lot of great features that only work if your mouse is in the right place, or you've got a certain thing selected that's plugged into the correct display. Over time you start to get used to the software's contrariness. :)

@frokachu

3 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble That is definitely the struggle at the moment. I'll follow a tutorial to the T but won't get the same results they did...I suppose I need a better understanding of the node network, simply copying what I'm seeing doesn't seem to give me the knowledge needed to problem solve. But once I figure out nodes I think nothing will be impossible!

helloo, thanks for the video ♥ I'm having this problem in which I can't see the shadows in my character nor do I can press shift f11 or press the "show" button in the "view" window. The normal map shows volume but still I can't see any shadow and neither can I see the camera position tool :( (I also checked the official toonboom tutorials and they all worked the same way as yours, so they didnt help me either) it would extremely help me if you helped me 😅

@pablochamber411

3 жыл бұрын

I MANAGED TO FIX THAT, I can see the light position and all now...but now this thing happens. My light shader shows in the thumbnail that there IS a light in the character's silhouette, but I can't see it in the camera view. But if I get CLOSE ENOUGH, I can see little pixels of the color of my shader light. I imagine the light is appearing behind my character, and I don't know how to fix that. I've tried making a different character for testing and same result. Thanks a lot ♥♥♥

@Critterly

3 жыл бұрын

@@pablochamber411 how did you fix not being able to see the camera position tool?

@pablochamber411

3 жыл бұрын

@@Critterly I'm not sure, I believe I kept tweaking some things and eventually pressing "show" showed the camera, but I remember believing that I hadn't pressed anything significant. It just happened.... I'm sorry I couldn't help :(

@Critterly

3 жыл бұрын

@@pablochamber411 no, tysm! I will keep trying, thank you for the help

@pablochamber411

3 жыл бұрын

@@Critterly ♥

how do you key frame colour change?

@StylusRumble

3 жыл бұрын

the easiest way is to use a colour scale. If you have something that has a lot of specific colour changes- like the line art needs to stay blue, but you want the grape to turn green, it gets more complecated. I would probably make 2 versions, use a colour override for the new colours and a transparency to fade between them.

@connor6505

3 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble wow thank you for the quick reply!

Deberias explicar desde 0 o nada

in normal map i can't add object any hellp

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

this option should become available when you connect your volume map. Make sure you have everything plugged in the right way, and check your volume map ID box to make sure it has a 1 in there.

@fouziafou7771

5 жыл бұрын

thank you

I dont have a single drawing! I have a whole ass rig! How do you add lights!??!?!?!?!?!?!

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

this is a whole-ass rig as well. Just do the same thing I did?

@MomoDearestt

5 жыл бұрын

@@StylusRumble Sorry. I did and your video was super helpful. I was just confused on how to assign your drawing to be effected by the bevel part. T A T really. I rewatched and rewatched your video and it saved my life. Sorry I used a curse word.

@StylusRumble

5 жыл бұрын

No worries - glad you got it working :D

why is it so complicated with this software? animation should not be as complicated. precisely in the field of animation, the studios seek speed and simplicity. it amazes me that toonboom is used the most.

@StylusRumble

4 жыл бұрын

You can just draw the stuff, with none of the techno geekary. The complex stuff is for setting up complex series pipelines. Hand drawing lighting masks for a little short or a personal project is doable. For a TV project, I just had to composite 116 scenes in a week. so building a kit like this and just dropping it into every scene is the only way that can happen.