A BEGINNER'S Guide to OpenToonz Animation

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Published 2023-04-06
In today's video I'm sharing a beginner's guide on how to do a frame by frame 2D animation using OpenToonz. This is the first of the trilogy of videos where we cover the basic interface, tools and create a rough animation. The next video will cover adding details, clean-up and color to rough drawings so smash that subscribe button and ring that g-dang bell to get notified on when it's up!
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OpenToonz Clean-up and color guide:    • OpenToonz Animation Clean-Up & Color ...  
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All Comments (21)
  • @amaririsu__art
    Thank you for making this so comprehensive! A lot of the other tutorials I found went over the interface tools, but since there are so many it was difficult to follow along with their process. I feel like I can get started properly now ☺
  • @dajwalk3rs
    Excellent videos! Please keep going with OpenToonz tutorials! There's SO much to learn! Thanks!
  • @JK_pro
    This is what I've been looking for.
  • @Crux161
    The most helpful advice I’ve seen yet trying to get started with Opentoonz. Thank you so much! 😁
  • @BasementStudi0s
    been using krita for a while, cant wait to use open toons, thanks for keeing vid short, i love short tutorial vids that get right to the point
  • @jesusvalles1089
    Im subscribing thx a lot this really helped in order to start
  • @JLarionnetF1
    ty i just starting animation on computer and this helped me a lot <3
  • @genshiidoescomms
    Thank you, fellow filipino, for teaching me the ways of the masters
  • @moxtuu
    Using a vettical timeline is super smart!
  • @alexmiller8177
    I'm so sick of long videos that are like 2hrs long for what you just covered. Thanks so much. Curious: I'm also new to OT and just went from a drawing pad (used for yrs) to an XP-PEN tablet, and I see in videos that ppl use the whole screen to draw on, how do I do that? So far it just has a mini version of OT on the screen (multiple screens) pc
  • @m.j.vazquez4720
    if i prefer to draw first with pencil and paper can i scan my work and insert it into this ?
  • @ZGPAK
    I already have a asset ready can I just import it
  • @Penguin12326
    the video is educative and i like your jokes 😀 I have a question are levels the same thing as layers in photoshop?
  • @itsmereem6748
    When I try to drag the frames to make hold frames it doesn’t show up. Even when I click on the rectangle.
  • @Bot-plays
    How do I reset bruh like the thing where I changed where my thing goes like where my colors or different frame I want it on default