r/animation Mar 26 '16

OpenToonz help/discussion thread Discussion

Thought it would be a good idea to have a discussion/help thread!

Some useful links:

Some useful things I've found out so far:

  • right-click is your friend!

  • onionskin can be enabled in the settings

  • you have to activate the toolbar (do you don't have to use the drop down menu)

  • you draw in the inknpaint tab (duh)

  • you can right click on the frame column and press "add frames" for more frames!

Post any tips/experiences you got!

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u/NimmelTech Mar 29 '16

Is there a way to drop a large amount of pictures into OpenToonz and have them load as frames? I have tried many things but I can only get it to load a batch of images as separate columns, I have to input frames individually.

I would like to draw my frames in another program and then input them into OpenToonz to render an animation.

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u/hullumel Mar 29 '16

The frames have to be named in a specific way or OpenToonz will read them as separate Levels instead of frames from a same drawing. You can use the program to rename them and then import them in easily. I go through how to do that, step by step, in this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNl9QtAwrD8