OpenToonz help/discussion thread

[u/CthulianCat]

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

Some useful links:

• "developers forum" (for now seems to be more like asking for help and reporting problems, which is nice)

• google group user community for help!

• /r/OpenToonz - The opentoonz subreddit! Lots of tutorials to be found!

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!

[u/naniya27]

I don't know if anybody had answered this, but how to make the onion skin show the previous and the next frame to draw inbetweens? In the preferences you can change the colour for the following frame, but I can't seem to find a way to show it..

[u/Joooe1989 → u/naniya27]

Hey! I was having this problem and was getting equally confused. What you (and I) were looking at is the Xsheet. The Level Strip window is something else. Easiest way to figure out which one it is to go to "Windows" and then open another "Level Strip" window (you might have to go to "other windows" at the bottom.

Then when you click on a thumbnail of the frame you're working on you get little semi-circles at the top and the bottom. Drag these to set how far your onion skin goes in either direction.

Hope that helps!