I pulled a bounding box around the Friz character and then by dragging the bounding box to one side the Friz character is separated from the rest of the cartoon drawing. I start working on the copy of my first cell and begin with the scissor tool. That way I don’t have to worry about destroying other parts of the vectorized drawing that I will want to use later. I started out making a copy of my drawing element’s first cell. There are many ways to approach this so I’m going to show you the way that I used to cut-out the Friz and Panther characters. With the bit mapped graphic imported into our drawing element cell, we can begin the character cut-out process. This “vector manipulation box” is the secret of how we are going to turn a bit mapped graphic into multiple vector animation assets in separate drawing elements.Ĭlick to see an enlarged version of this figure (see the red arrow in the figure below) This will import the cartoon drawing into our drawing element cell in what is described as a “vector manipulation box”. This opens a dialog box where we select the source drawing and set the vectorization type to “ with texture”. With the right mouse button we click to open a context menu to access the " import and vectorize" command. We go to the exposure sheet and start on the first cell of a drawing element. The first step in constructing this animation project is importing the source cartoon to a drawing element using the “ import and vectorize” command.
#TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 TUTORIAL FULL#
I am unfortunately not able to credit the artist of this cartoon drawing, but it is so full of character and implied action that it just seemed totally appropriate for use in this tutorial. It is a drawing of the great animation director Friz Freleng and one of his most famous stars the Pink Panther. I wanted to keep this tutorial simple, so I chose a cartoon graphic that just screamed out to me to bring it to life in an animation.
You can still do this, but there may be an easier way thanks to the “ vectorize with textures” enhancement added in TBS V 4.0.įriz Freleng and the Pink Panther Cartoon Up until now that required doing the cut out and masking in a bit map editing program like Photo Shop and then importing the parts into image elements in TBS for animating.
#TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 TUTORIAL SERIES#
In this tutorial series I am going to begin to show you some of the conceptual ways to use this new feature for doing photo cut out animation.įor a long time TBS users have been wanting to be able to do cut-out animation using source assets that were created as bit mapped graphics.
Toon Boom already had excellent support for cut-out animation and this new feature really adds many interesting possibilities. This opens the doorway to many potentially new and creative ways to use TBS, the most significant of which is “ photo cut-out animation”. It is an added vectorization type “ with texture”. One of the new features of Toon Boom Studio V 4.0 is a deceptively innocent change to “ import and vectorize”.
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