And people still ask why studios take such a long time to make an animation

A really quick time-saving trick in Toon Boom is that you can actually select all lines of the currently selected colour, and then delete them, so cleanup is pretty simple. I've even found that situationally, I can turn my brush strokes into pencil lines, fill them in, select the colour of the lineart, and then just delete it, so there's no bleed-over with softer line brushes when you have duplicates of the lineart.

10:23 I searched heaven and earth to get more information about those Sakuga shading lines but never found one xD Thanks you so much !!!

Compositing is a life saver. It makes even my bad animations look good.

Thank you very much, Toniko!

This is so helpful!! I'm working in Toon Boom and goshh I didn't know how to shade properly. Now I can use these for my videos. Thanks :D Edit: oops accidentally put Toon "Noom"

I honestly need this for redoing my Capstone project (way later in the future w/less studies in the way). And thank you again for these videos you've made since 2018, they helped me learn and teach me so much to now. Just wanted to say that since i've been following since i discovered your channel and ig back when I was still struggling to learn on my own. And happy new year **I hope you keep making these videos to keep encouraging aspiring animators like me

I can't get enough of that concept animation you did. I hope to see it as a film someday.

AAHHH JUST OPENED TO WATCH ANIMATION TUTORIAL AND GOT UPDATE FROM YOU !

Hi Toniko, Love your videos!. For Toon Boom, I think you can create a solid matte pass based on line info by going to drawing > generate auto matte ( you do have to have "support Overlay and Underlay Arts" ticked in your preferences under the "Advanced "Tab) you can also turn off the visibility of the Underlay sublayer once you're done by going into the Layers's "layer properties" > "Drawing" Tab. I hope this info helps your workflow!

6:07 In blender's latest version (2.93) you can do mult fills and inverted filling, so you can do something kind of similar -----* the more you know

Cool tutorial: A few tips for Toon Boom: -If you're working in vector mode, enable "Automatically Create Colour Art" in your Tool Properties. Then you can just paint on the colour art layer without having to duplicate the entire layer. (NOTE: does not work with bitmap) -To automatically create an alpha matte pass for every frame, change the Paint tool to Paint Unpainted, and enable "Apply To All Frames" in Tool Properties. Then just draw a lasso around your drawing area and you're done! Or, just click Drawing>Generate Auto-Matte and it does it in one click.

oh it was such a big mistake to assume that more 'professional' programs would make these kinds of things less tedious 😂 (coming from firealpaca)

Krita technically has some pretty solid vector layer work now; you still generally have to look up things like setting the fill color after you've created a shape. I'm optimistic.

Thank you so much for this video, finishing my graduation film rn and you gave us the light in the end of the tunnel we needed so much!!!

POV: You're the best animation channel

our videos are always so helpful! And I love the 90s atmosphere you do in your animations!

In blender all the visible layer can be used to drive the paint, and a new feature is a inverse fill to do this matte pass. And in the opentoonz the bitmap work can color automatically the guide line for the shadow. And open to one has a beautiful method of coloring multiple frames at the same time, it can be really helpful

Fantastic. The timing for uploading this is impeccable. I really needed this. Tysm for sharing!

I’ve been waiting so long for a video like this from someone!!! Its so hard to find a coloring and shading tutorial for animation. Thanks so much for making these. They’re incredibly helpful!!! : )

your tutorials and animation videos are some of the most helpful that i have ever watched! you really get into what ive always wanted to know and couldnt really find elsewhere that got what i wanted

You’re so thorough and open with your work! I respect when anybody puts this much of their process online. Especially since I can’t currently afford art school! Seriously, thank you.

Added to my watch later for when I'm off work. I always get my creative drive when drawing is impracticle. Not sure if youve ever covered this but what about a video about early planning? Ive done a couple gifs here and there over the years but I wanna start getting serious with making some shorts, but I find that planning and timing keys are a really abstract concept for me and Ive been trying to find either guides or streams where the animator starts out from just a blank canvas and breaks down the key framing and breakdown process. I get how it works on paper but I feel like Im missing something when I comes to increasing/decreasing exposure to find the right timing. Most videos on yt tend already start off somewhere in the inbeteewning phase and I feel like I'm missing out on juicy info that doest get much talk for a noob.

You are very generous sharing your knowledge with all of us, you are very talented and your work is excellent. I like it very much! thanks for all...keep it up!

Tvpaint is much more nicer now for coloring with the CTG layers!! No need to worry about the gap closer leaving white areas because of textured lines. I don't need to use any matte layers thanks to that anymore. plus the option to switch color from the pallet for the whole shot is amazing. I think toon boom also has something like this...

In Harmony all layers actually have a separate line and color layer by default meaning that there's no need to create additional layers in your timeline for keeping line and color separate. What you need to do once you have your clean line art is use: "Create Colour Art from Line Art" feature and this will automatically generate invisible strokes in your color layer which you can then paint in. There's also no need to paint each frame one by one as you can speed up the process using the onion skin feature to color in several frames all at once. Also, nodes are extremely powerful within Harmony and there's no need to use an additional compositing app like After Effects to achieve things like cel shading or lighting fx.

Thanks a lot for the Solid Matte trick on ToonBoom! Super helpful.

I haven't a clue what any of this ment, but I love your work and I hope some day to see 7 seasons and 3 feature films of Dream Bandits.

love from india toniko

Now I'm tempted to try adding TV Paint's repeat action on all selected cels to Krita as a plugin since I'm using Krita for my game's full HD handrawn animation. That would save lots of time on filling in the base color instead of manually doing that over and over again.

aww the dog is so cute, it makes me smile

That was a quick outro, that “ok bye” 🤣

Oh my god you’re saving my grade right now Toniko!! This is absolutely fantastic!

This is so helpful!! Thank you Toniko!!! 😊

Oh my gosh....I am just learning TVpaint and your this video helped sooo much! Thank you!

Love your work. Personally think TV paint has the best coloring features

I was thinking of how to color my thesis film and this video gave me a bunch of ideas. Thank you so much!! :D

your animatioin is sooooo exuberant

Thank you so much for teaching this. I had no idea how to shade. This is really helpful

Oh god... THIS!!! I ALWAYS CONFUSED BY THIS SUBJECT!

thank you! I really needed this video! I'm on a dealine and I have to colour my animations super fast. This will help me!

Toniko, you can change the color in your palette for the one you want it to be on toon boom. By doing that you skip that double painting :,v

Thanks man!

Thanks 🙏🏼. That was super helpful to see.

Toniko, you know that there's a sublayer you can use for coloring in Toon Boom, right? 6:10, to the right of the drawing area there are three icons: an eye icon, an icon with two stacked rectangles and an L, and an icon with two stacked rectangles and a C. The L icon toggles the vector line art sublayer, which you're currently drawing on, and the C icon toggles the vector color sublayer. You'll need to pass vector information from the line art sublayer onto the color sublayer before you can use the fill tool. To do this, there is an icon just above the drawing area that depicts three arrows sandwiched between two curves, one gray and one blue. Once it has been clicked, the vector information should have transferred onto the color sublayer of your current frame and you can begin coloring. Idk if you already know of this feature and you've just elected to not use it, but I figured I'd give you the info just in case you didn't. Great video otherwise, love your stuff!

thanks, animation school doesnt teach this, they straight up tell you to search on youtube

Thanks man

Thanks this is extremely helpful!

Thank you so much Sir!

Do you have any advice about how much time it should take to do the final line clean drawings and colour for each drawing ? I understand that could vary quite a bit , depending on the character details, but "on average" how many clean final line drawings per hour/per day is considered an acceptable standard in the industry and how many colour frames per hour/per day ? Maybe specific examples: like if you had to cleanup and colour a sequence of animation using your mascot character , Bon Bon, how many clean line drawings per hour/per day would be average , compared to clean line drawings of a more detailed character like the warrior dog character (at around 3:17 ) ? Obviously being able to draw faster is better (as long as the quality holds up) , but I think it would be nice to have a goal to shoot for . For someone starting as an entry-level cleanup artist , how many drawings a day would be expected ? With more experience how many drawings a day does an experienced cleanup artist typically do per hour/per day ?

Bro, he it has the potential of a 1980s-2000s Disney studio

Thanks for the advice

THANK YOU SO MUCH

So basically you go around the block to get next door? Your animations are great. The character design is awesome as well. I just can't keep up with all this. It's like building a sand castle with all water no sand. But I'm an amateur and you are the pro.

Nice tipssss 👌

It's very usefull video sir. Make a part 2 continue Video . And how able a shadow and lighting after colour explain about that , how study light and shadows and analizes

I remember a program that once you make a fill to a region while the animation was moving there was some motion calculations to try to predict where the paint fill and would end up filling most of the 2D animation sequence. Can't remember what it was called tho.

I was wondering what programs you were using lol. I stick to Blender for all my needs along with Vegas pro for simple and a bit faster simple parallaxing along with any other possible lighting effects. I know this was made 2 years ago, but it's still fun to see and witness. thing is I usually do just layer per layer. I hate puppeting I feel like it's cheating really. I feel like more love and passion goes into it layer wise. What I love about artwork in general though there are so many ways to create and as long as you have the skill, passion and imagination you can make things come to life!

Thanks you for lessons :D they are very helping me)

Great ❤️ that was helpfull

6:56 ayooo 🤔 ''Stroke away those holes''

I’m here for learning other ways to color rather then just using the paint bucket tool.

‘Hopefully this helped okay bye’ idk why this made me laugh 😂 but fr this video was very helpful for my coloring has always been difficult in my animations

Too complicated for me ,but big thanks for the efforts I might come back to this video after Learning more basic stuffs

1 minute WOOO

This is so overwhelming

Thank you so much 😭♥️

you e a savior!

Thanks 🙏🏻

please can i learn animation from you i love your works and breakdown

Wow

Finally thanks a lot

Anyone know how to animate a character with an ombre type hair (hair that fades from one color to another)?

In the place holder shades method how do you remove the red highlight and blue shade lines?

Nice video

There's anyway of doing that solid matt pass on Krita?

Either Im really good...or utterly terrible. Yeah, considering it takes me about a month for 10 seconds of animation...later it is. I use photostop 7...not the latest 7. Nope. This release came out in I think 1996.

Is there way to make toonboom bitmap? I find it very hard to use toon boom as vector map and I have difficulties painting base colors etc on my animations even when I use layers. I'm a 2D srudent and finishing my storyboarded and sletched animations is such a struggle. And I want to do my best to graduate so it would be nice if I got some work actually done and not just fill my portfolio with storyboard or colorless linearts all the time

I want spanish subtitles, please somebody. I always think i'm missing something 'cause My English still not that good. :) This is so helpful

Show! 👏😍

Can you do a video on bitmap vs vector for animation colouring please😊

1:50 what is that from?? its so pretty

Hiiiii Toniko Love your video and learning alot! I tried this in TvPaint the solid pass and it works but not how it shows in the video. I copied the structure of the lineart layer and i filled a base colour and press enter instead of keeping the structure of the lineart layer it just put everything on ones suddenly (I mostly work on 2s) And i tried the same for the erase part which also works and when i pressed enter It didnt keep my layer structure again it cuts them all to 1s again :< It was fine since i was making a small GIF animation But how can I change this since I really like the work flow of this?

Why dont you use krita??? Btw love your videos

im confused though. why dont you just have the neon guide lines on a seperate layer and delete the layer when youre done? seems like something that should be doable in.. litterally one click?

Its Not Always About Money But Skill -Me

Awesome! Anyone knows if there is a discord for this channel?

Damn I need to watch this again when I actually learn to use an animation program because I'm so lost rn, a lot of this just sounded like gibberish to me so hmm. Well, I'll come back in a year I guess lmao

Just a question when I try to flood fill, , when I click enter my layer structure is erased and all the frames are put on ones and then I end up having to reset the solid matte layer structure manually. why am I having that problem? because when you click enter your layer structure is retained.

What software is this? is it just like flipaclip or a better version of that

Noice

Can I ask a strange question? Do you draw the frames directly on the animation program or do you make them on a drawing program and then pass them onto the animation program?

not a software tutorial video *proceeds to show how to use the software*

whats the music name? (vidio music)

What were the first animations you did?

Out of curiosity, which project is the character at 9:43 from?

What was that software in the first clip

😘

For me, Snipple Animation used digital ink & paint via Toon Boom Harmony.

What ist this program?