Colouring and Composition | Tool Kit 2D Animation

boiling: 1-2-3-2-1-3 (to break the same pattern)

shortcut to the padlet: https://shorturl.at/RWCsT

Colour in TV paint

  • select the lineart layer
  • >new
  • >duplicate the strcuture
  • paint bucket
  • > colour the full screen
  • > duble click under the colour layer frame
  • > press enter (colour all frames)
  • > change “source” to display
  • > press left key (to clear extra colour) on the mouse outside the character lineart, create a silhouette
  • > adjust “smooth””gap closer””expand” to a value that suit the lineart
  • > press enter to apply this to all frames
  • > adjust each frame
  • > turn on”enable the stencil”, (It’s like alpha lock) to draw only inside the silhouette
  • “duplicate the structure” for any other new layers of the character (hair, clothes, face..)

export to after effects

  • select all the character layers&label line and colour separately
  • export to
  • the tab- all layers and frames
  • json+images
  • choose png, change the compression to 1, take out the background
  • make a folder (eg. json_character_demo.)
  • export
  • download the json script file (from the padlet)
  • file> scripts> install script file> choose the json file
  • create a composition: master comp (the final work)
  • name the exported composition: character

use the camera:

layer>new>camera (change the project to 3d)

  • layer
  • >new>null object> to put on the top of the layers
  • > click on parenting tool (the spiral)
  • > parent the camera to the null object
  • > tick every 3d boxes of every layers (including the null object)
  • >choose active camera> custom space2
  • use orbit around tool and selection tool
  • animate/add keyframes to the null object

when import the character:

make sure that the character is on the same z axis as the surface they are standing on.

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