See how that also gets darker as I keep working over it and over it. Again, these are all of our vector brushes here that we can work with. And if I start working over it, notice it's going to start getting darker. And I want to make the chalk line thicker. So it's kind of like using a felt tip marker, an art marker of some sort. And if I start crossing the line, notice it gets darker and darker as I keep working over it. And as I work it, notice it's going to get darker and darker. Okay, so brush one, nice solid black line, nice solid edges on a line. So I'm going to zoom in, just using my fingers here, because I'm on a (mumbles), I'll select brush one. That's the one with the gray line on the side. The way we're going to see vector brushes, is selecting our pencil or brush icon, and then making sure that under our layers, we're on a vector layer. Now I'm going to start here with our vector brushes. Some of them are great for drawing, and others can be used for certain effects, So, let's take a look at various brushes that we've got to work with. Now, starting with version 5 of Storyboard Pro, we have many more brush presets to work with. Some prefer a solid vector line, while others like me, prefer a softer pencil-like line. Stop worrying about the software.- All artists prefer a different variety of digital brush tips when they draw. My animation toolkit consists of a number of apps to do what I want – not just one.
TOON BOOM HARMONY BRUSHES TV
If you need more painterly animated background drawings, you might decide to do those in TV Paint or Krita, and then export the animation as an image sequence for import into Toonboom Harmony, and use the vector tools in Harmony to do other parts of the animation.Īnyway, it is best to not focus too much on the software, and rather define what you actually need for the execution of your animation. It is also possible to combine the strengths of two or more animation applications. So do ClipStudio EX, and the latest version of OpenToonz integrates the MyPaint bitmap brush engine, which is arguably more advanced than Harmony features. Krita, for example, also supports frame-by-frame animation and has much more powerful bitmap drawing and painting tools compared to Harmony. For example, in ToonBoom you can have a brush with a bitmap texture and color it in with a vector layer. It has a good combination of vector and bitmap layers and brushes. TV Paint focuses solely on bitmap based (mostly frame-by-frame) animation while you can definitely do traditional hand-painted work in ToonBoom. It depends on how far you want or need to go with more a simulated natural media approach of drawing and painting. It’s a bit like comparing Photoshop to Painter. TV Paint does have more natural feeling media tools, though. You can animate traditional frame by frame and combine these techniques with digital puppets. Harmony is not only a digital puppet animation app – it does far more than that. Harmony Advanced and Premium have bitmap painting tools, however, and quite painterly drawing is possible. Harmony Essentials does NOT offer any bitmap painting tools – only vector tools. I personally have not tried harmony or TV paint, but like I said ToonBoom worked beautifully. It was a great program and worked very well for what we needed it to do. When I was in college (computer animation) we had to take several traditional animation classes as well, and the college I attended had ToonBoom. I am sure each program has it is special features and such, but when doing traditional hand drawn animation, all the specials are not really needed.
I think it comes down to preference in most cases.