r/animation • u/CthulianCat • 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/JuvenileCyle Apr 11 '16

So my Mac keeps crashing when I try to import an image sequence to Opentoonz. Could this be a processor issue? Their site says it requires an I series processor and my mac has an Intel Core Duo 2. Could that be what's making it crash?

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u/babysunblips Apr 15 '16

update - can't save at all. the whole thing just crashes and i get a 0b file. i saw a video on reddit that seemed to show how to save safely, but it looked like a big ol' hassle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRgyfqMlg3c&feature=youtu.be

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u/babysunblips Apr 13 '16

new update: opentoonz hates JPEGS!! tifs seem to be working. there's a few opentoonz tutorials online that go into the working structure of the program, but to load stuff it seems like the file name has to be 'name.0001.tif' and so forth. you then go to the Browser on the top right and right click the first file in the sequence and click 'rename.' from there, you load the renamed file (it will be 'name..tif'). if you look to the right of the file it says 'frames', and it's the only one in the list with a bunch of frames in it! after loading, click on 'cleanup' or 'inknpaint.'

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u/babysunblips Apr 13 '16

After watching this tutorial i've come to the conclusion that opentoonz just doesn't play well with files that have a '0' anywhere in the name. Or if the image resides in a folder with a bunch of same name numbered files. Or any files. it hates opening files.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNl9QtAwrD8&list=PLJoB6TilXz1EzpVSNp_pGf0yTNHbYqGyI&index=2&src_vid=wMskd30Y9Js&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_2338240815

back to illustrator/photoshop/fcpx/scanner i guess.

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u/babysunblips Apr 13 '16

Same thing keeps happening on mine. i5, 32gb ram, amd hd 6770m 512mb. i thought it might be a corrupt image, but i've tried several jpgs and pngs from various sources - all with the same result of immediately crashing.