Thanks for this! OpenToonz was so impenetrable as a new user, with its weird terminology and nonstandard shortcuts. This was enough to get started and make sense of their system.
It's great to hear the video was helpful. :) Yeah it's quite intimidating at first. The good news is tough that professional software like ToonBoom Harmony use a lot of the same concepts, so if you already got used to them in OpenToonz it's easier to pick up.
Great job. SO much clearer and straight forward than any other OpenToonz intros I've seen on TH-cam. You really present from a beginner's perspective without assuming we know all the lingo out of the box. Very helpful!
This is one of the best animation tutorials for total beginners I have ever seen. I really mean it, no kidding. You can not imagine how many videos on different softwares I watched. Totally useless, I ended up hating and giving up cause I had no proper and clear introduction. Thank you a lot.
I remember installing opentoonz a few years ago and being completely overwhelmed, maybe even intimidated, by it. Needless to say I never did much in it and it's just been sitting on my computer. Recently I got more and more inspiration to animate even short animations just for fun and I think this is the perfect software for me. Thank you so much for making it more accessible to new users like this!
Bookmarking for my own uses 14:41 - Instances 15:34 - Difference between frame and drawing, how to duplicate/unlink/alter Thank you for the informative video!! :D Just got into 2D animation and OpenToonz has been just perfect especially with these guides :)
Even after a year still works. So much gratitude for this. I have dyslexia and find it hard to grasp concepts at times. Much thanks for taking your time and breaking it down and making it easy for us all to understand. I never thought i would make it very far but i am so thrilled with just knowing the basics, because it is more then i knew when just loading it for the first time and getting overwhelmed. Now i can make a little sense out of it. I come from using GIMP and PDN and can't wait to see what i can do in OT :D again tysm .
I found out Opentoonz today and got zero idea on what to do until I watched your video. HUGE HELP!! Thank you so much. The tutorial is so clear and understandable . Will watch more of your videos ❤❤❤
Hello, love the video, very informative. I do have a few questions: a. is there a way to draw a background or a scenery? b. is there a way to make it so that the background doesn't change per frame?
Do u mean copy and pasting the background if so then this is kinda hard to explain but tap on the column u want to draw the background in, draw it then double tap on the second table below the one u drew in and type out the same column number as the one u were drawing in. I hope this helped
Create a layer and draw your background (assuming you aren't going to move your background in any way, as you asked in question b), then click on the frame the background is on. Grab the gray maker in the righthand corner of the frame and drag it as far as you want. It will hold the frame for you. Doing it this way makes it easy to shorten or lengthen the number of frames you want the background to hold.
Thanks for the clear, helpful tutorial! I got stuck in a separate puppet rigging tutorial and had to go check out the basics again and this helped me much more quickly than any other tutorial. Thanks so much.
you are damn GREAT ! the tutorial is very clear , detail and simple. .. unlike others professional tutor, they keep confusing by teaching this and that , in the end still get nothing to understand. even the opentoonz itself cannot make intro as simple as you bro. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !
Thank you! I was making short animations on plippa clip but woshed for a sketch pad for my birthday that is in a few months and I wanted to get started getting to know a program. This realy helped alot to make it less overwhelming
Thanks for this, I was wanting better lines ( vector) and I couldn't change colours! Now I know..thanks to you! Looking forward to seeing more of this content
I am a technology teacher. I use adobe animate but I was searching for a good free alternative. It was between this software and another. You made me choose this one because of this video :p
Very helpful video! I've been searching for an animation software kind of like this. I think, once I've gotten used to it, I'll probably love this one. 👍
Ferdinand, that was an excellent beginner tutorial. You explained things in detail without skipping basic concepts which a lot of tutorials do because they "assume" you already knew that concept or procedure...as a beginner, probably not...or they just want to do a short video. I'm a musician with zero animation experience and I've been doing some initial research into potential software that I could use as a beginner to make basic animated music videos and after this tutorial, I think I'm sold on this program. I have one (potentially dumb) question...did you use a tablet/laptop with a screen that you can draw on to make the animated ghosts or a peripheral device (usb?) on which you can draw the ghosts? I could never have enough hand control and steadiness to draw anything like that using a mouse. Thanks.
It's not a dumb question! Yes, tablets are made nowadays that you can draw on. It is likely that he has a display tablet (where you draw directly on the screen), but he could also have a non-display one directly on the desk, USB or even bluetooth connected. It's definitely possible to make animations with just a mouse, but it is really worth the price of a cheaper drawing tablet if you are making anything more than a few frames! Good luck on animating
@@gabriellastauffer Thank you so much for responding! I haven't tried doing any animation yet because I have to get motivated to fully complete the song that I was going to do the animation for, but your info has given me some inspiration to finish it. 😁 Being able to draw on a tablet would give me the ability to do some basic animation that would be above the 1'st grade art class level I'd achieve with a mouse.
Great video! I'm looking to create simple learning content for kids. What do you suggest as 2D software that is easy and quick to create, let's say Alphabet learning for instance? Thanks in advance.
Wow i want to install it and follow your lessons . You teach me very better of William XD i can understand all even though i'm a Persian. You're a really good master of animation . Thank you
An Incredible program so well explained. I just subscribed and look forward to checking out your other tutorials, as well. Thank you for sharing your clear explanations.
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Thanks for this! OpenToonz was so impenetrable as a new user, with its weird terminology and nonstandard shortcuts. This was enough to get started and make sense of their system.
It's great to hear the video was helpful. :) Yeah it's quite intimidating at first. The good news is tough that professional software like ToonBoom Harmony use a lot of the same concepts, so if you already got used to them in OpenToonz it's easier to pick up.
@@AnimatorIsland that's cool, cuz I was planning on switching to ToonBoom when I have the money. Good to know it won't be to difficult of a switch :D
@@AnimatorIsland good to know thanks, I’m guessing it’s a better choice than Flash.
bullshit, this tut sucks, fuck this app and this shit tut
@@AnimatorIsland ❤
Great job. SO much clearer and straight forward than any other OpenToonz intros I've seen on TH-cam. You really present from a beginner's perspective without assuming we know all the lingo out of the box. Very helpful!
really ? i've come across nothing but clear and good tutorials for OpenToonz on youtube :/
This comment confuses me
Thanks Sir, This was very easy to understood
@@gargoyled_drake same hahahahahaha
@@goldymolkky1155 understand*
This is one of the best animation tutorials for total beginners I have ever seen. I really mean it, no kidding. You can not imagine how many videos on different softwares I watched. Totally useless, I ended up hating and giving up cause I had no proper and clear introduction. Thank you a lot.
I remember installing opentoonz a few years ago and being completely overwhelmed, maybe even intimidated, by it. Needless to say I never did much in it and it's just been sitting on my computer. Recently I got more and more inspiration to animate even short animations just for fun and I think this is the perfect software for me. Thank you so much for making it more accessible to new users like this!
Sameeee
Bookmarking for my own uses
14:41 - Instances
15:34 - Difference between frame and drawing, how to duplicate/unlink/alter
Thank you for the informative video!! :D Just got into 2D animation and OpenToonz has been just perfect especially with these guides :)
Even after a year still works. So much gratitude for this. I have dyslexia and find it hard to grasp concepts at times. Much thanks for taking your time and breaking it down and making it easy for us all to understand. I never thought i would make it very far but i am so thrilled with just knowing the basics, because it is more then i knew when just loading it for the first time and getting overwhelmed. Now i can make a little sense out of it. I come from using GIMP and PDN and can't wait to see what i can do in OT :D again tysm .
I found out Opentoonz today and got zero idea on what to do until I watched your video. HUGE HELP!! Thank you so much. The tutorial is so clear and understandable . Will watch more of your videos ❤❤❤
Hello, love the video, very informative. I do have a few questions:
a. is there a way to draw a background or a scenery?
b. is there a way to make it so that the background doesn't change per frame?
Do u mean copy and pasting the background if so then this is kinda hard to explain but tap on the column u want to draw the background in, draw it then double tap on the second table below the one u drew in and type out the same column number as the one u were drawing in. I hope this helped
Create a layer and draw your background (assuming you aren't going to move your background in any way, as you asked in question b), then click on the frame the background is on. Grab the gray maker in the righthand corner of the frame and drag it as far as you want. It will hold the frame for you. Doing it this way makes it easy to shorten or lengthen the number of frames you want the background to hold.
I love OpenToonz.
Thanks for the clear, helpful tutorial! I got stuck in a separate puppet rigging tutorial and had to go check out the basics again and this helped me much more quickly than any other tutorial. Thanks so much.
Great tutorial!
Clear, concise and explains the key features of the software in order to be able to get started!
So well explained. Perfect English, very clear, even more than English speakers on most vids. Thanks so much, definitely b watching more.
you are damn GREAT ! the tutorial is very clear , detail and simple. .. unlike others professional tutor, they keep confusing by teaching this and that , in the end still get nothing to understand. even the opentoonz itself cannot make intro as simple as you bro.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !
Thank you for this series, I really was struggling to learn animation.😀👍
Thank you! I was making short animations on plippa clip but woshed for a sketch pad for my birthday that is in a few months and I wanted to get started getting to know a program. This realy helped alot to make it less overwhelming
First time animating a logo. This video helps a lot. Thanks!!!
OMG this is golden! it adresses my problems so well! I have bitmap layers coz I like todraw cartoony sketches. Thank you very much
Thanks for this, I was wanting better lines ( vector) and I couldn't change colours! Now I know..thanks to you! Looking forward to seeing more of this content
Excellent tutorial for beginners. Many thanks to producer!👍
Suuuuuper helpful. I tried watching a couple different tutorials but this was the only one that actually made sense
That was a really great beginner tutorial! Thanks!
this was very helpful, thank you
One of the most amazing channels on youtube✨✨✨
Verleiht dem Mann einen Orden! Danke für das Tutorial.
Thanks fot this opentoonz 1.5 tutorial i was looking for 1.7.1 but this is, the best I found. Thanks
Brilliant! The best video about OpenToonz on TH-cam
the best explanation of opentoonz that I ever watch, thanks A lot
Отличное объяснение!
Спасибо!
I am a technology teacher. I use adobe animate but I was searching for a good free alternative. It was between this software and another. You made me choose this one because of this video :p
Waiting for this
Thx ❤️
Greetings from Germany
Clear and concise explanation. Cheers.
Just switched from Krita to Opentoonz, this helped a lot!
very nice - thank you for sharing your knowledge
very impressive how much you manage to pack into 23 minutes
I love this video and all your other ones. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making me fall in love with this program.
Very helpful video! I've been searching for an animation software kind of like this. I think, once I've gotten used to it, I'll probably love this one. 👍
Studying OpenToonz just now, It was a GREAT thing that I saw this before going to skillshare hahaha
Absolute awesome presentation, thx
this helped clear everything up thanks!
Thank you so much , it was hard to find tutorial in 1.5 version
Thanks 😊
Thanks for this!!
I think this video should be watched by everyone.
I agree :D please like and share to get more people here ;) I really appreciate your kind words!
This is a really good and very informative video, thank you
Ferdinand, that was an excellent beginner tutorial. You explained things in detail without skipping basic concepts which a lot of tutorials do because they "assume" you already knew that concept or procedure...as a beginner, probably not...or they just want to do a short video. I'm a musician with zero animation experience and I've been doing some initial research into potential software that I could use as a beginner to make basic animated music videos and after this tutorial, I think I'm sold on this program. I have one (potentially dumb) question...did you use a tablet/laptop with a screen that you can draw on to make the animated ghosts or a peripheral device (usb?) on which you can draw the ghosts? I could never have enough hand control and steadiness to draw anything like that using a mouse. Thanks.
It's not a dumb question! Yes, tablets are made nowadays that you can draw on. It is likely that he has a display tablet (where you draw directly on the screen), but he could also have a non-display one directly on the desk, USB or even bluetooth connected. It's definitely possible to make animations with just a mouse, but it is really worth the price of a cheaper drawing tablet if you are making anything more than a few frames! Good luck on animating
@@gabriellastauffer Thank you so much for responding! I haven't tried doing any animation yet because I have to get motivated to fully complete the song that I was going to do the animation for, but your info has given me some inspiration to finish it. 😁 Being able to draw on a tablet would give me the ability to do some basic animation that would be above the 1'st grade art class level I'd achieve with a mouse.
Thank u, have a project due on animation next week
Great video! I'm looking to create simple learning content for kids. What do you suggest as 2D software that is easy and quick to create, let's say Alphabet learning for instance? Thanks in advance.
I'm so glad when I found out this! Thanks for making an extremely helpful video!
Really nice tutorial. Very clear and concise. Thank you!
Very well done, sir. I just watched... I will watch again... and take notes. Thanks.
Thank you so much
Wow this is amazing tutorial! ✨ Thank you very much! We need more like this
So glad you found it useful! :D
@@AnimatorIsland if I want to study animation. Do I have to know how to draw?
Thank you! I really needed to know
Thank you, love your work!
Thank you so much this is so helpful❤❤
Glad you found it useful! And thanks for the kind comment, too. It makes us feel great to know it is helping folks. :)
straight to the point ...
Thank you for this! This will help me with my training in animation.
Thank you for the explanation!
I just found this software today and I found your tutorial immediately ! So cool! Can’t wait to try this ! Thank you!
Wow i want to install it and follow your lessons . You teach me very better of William XD i can understand all even though i'm a Persian. You're a really good master of animation . Thank you
thanks for the tips i dedicate my animations to you
Amazing video you are a great teacher! Thanks
Awesome vid! Keep grindin fellow animators!
Thanks you for this great tutorial , you can't imagine how you help me
💚💚💚💚💚
This is so helpful!! Thank you so much and keep up the great work! :D
Thx u sir for ur totorials , I really understand what you teach us
It's very useful video, thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial, exactly what I was needed to start!
Notes for me
00:50 - 03:33 - Start of new proyect
05:46 - 09:41 - Selection tool, Vector selection and Vector brush accuracy
09:42 - 11:22 - Contour point editor
14:55 - 15:58 - Drawings
15:58 - 17:09 - Linking Drawings
17:09 - 18:29 - THE MOTHAFUCKING MVP, THE LEGEND, THE MYTH ONION SKIN
18:29 - 21:43 - Fill color, Close gaps and Changing colors
thank you so much this is good information and will help alot
this is a very good beginner tutorial, thanks!
Thanks for explaining
Can I import ready-made files and graphics and add them to the application with the ability to control the movement of these files?
Very good and straight foward... congratz !
I appreciate your positive feedback :) Thank you!
Awesome video bro
Amazingly clear!
amazing video for me , with no experience what so ever!!!
6:20 vector layers; 8:30, 9:42. 11:24 timeline; 14:21, 14:40, 16:03, 17:10
Very helpful, thank you
Great video!
Thank you so much for the great explanation.
Thank you bruv this is so crystal clear
really great video! Very helpful, thanks.
thank you so much it was very helpful
An Incredible program so well explained. I just subscribed and look forward to checking out your other tutorials, as well. Thank you for sharing your clear explanations.
Nice tutorial. I have been having content issues with my hmdi connected speaker and subwoofer. No soft is coming through, still coming out of
You are a great teacher! Thank you so much
grazie Best Tutorial for be not scared!
Thank youi so much i watched almost the whole video this cleared out everything that I need in opentoonz
ty, this is a great vid, and helped me get started
awesome lesson thx
Thanks heaps for the vid, very useful and helpful :)
Really great tutorial!
i love your tutorial... thanks a lot
That was very helpful, thank you. - Mike in Coronado
Thank you♥️
Question: How do I copy paste the bodies of the drawings so that I can just draw the faces easily without having to redraw everything?
Wow, so useful! Thank you!
thank you very much for the tutorial
Then, how do you make it a video and upload it on TH-cam?
I'm loving the program so far , very easy to use . however , the brushes are very limited .
big thanks to you sir , i love the way you teach and how i wish you can teach me personal
i will love to be professional cartoonist
Can you use only drawings which you make in OT or can you import other photos (if yes, which format please) and animate those?