OpenToonz Tutorial - Using OpenToonz Plastic tool to rig and animate some flamingos

In this OpenToonz tutorial, I show how I rigged and animated the flying flamingos using OpenToonz Plastic tool, in a scene from my animated short "The Painter On Safari".
This is part 1 of a 2 part tutorial series - in the next tutorial I will show how I used Sub-Xsheets to further create this scene.
I have an "Animating With OpenToonz" course that goes into this, and many other techniques and methods of animating using OpenToonz.
"Animating with OpenToonz" will cover everything an animator needs to know about OpenToonz, from setting it up, and all the basics, all the way to more complex techniques and tools that one can use to really let OpenToonz show its' power.
This is a very hands-on course, leaning more to the application of OpenToonz, rather than just all the theory of it. So the project that I take on, and encourage the animator to do to, is central to the course. In between every project video, there will be technical explanation videos that go through what we have just used in more detail. So even if the animator does not do the project, she will be able to follow all the technical theory that goes into the creation of the project.
It comes with downloads needed for the project plus some locomotion templates to make the animation of certain parts much easier.
The course is currently about 1/2 finished - I expect it will be 100% finished later in 2023. But it is open for enrolment and the first 1/2 of the course is live and available.
Because it is only 1/2 way finished (in other words the first scene of the 2 scenes is finished) I am offering it at a special 40% discounted price to it's anticipated price when it is finished. It will go to the 100% price at full completion, later in 2023. So if you are interested, I strongly encourage you to get in early and save yourself some $.
There are a few sections to the course, and it covers:
1. Basics - installing, FF Mpeg, Tools and workplace windows etc.
2. Drawing - the 2 main methods; vectors & raster, and how to use them to the full
3. Animating - covering the various methods and techniques OpenToons offers
4. Advanced Tools & Techniques - we dive into some of the more advanced parts of OT
5. Extra Tips & Techniques - we look at some creative ways to use OpenToonz
6. Examples & break downs - we work through some finished animation examples, step by step.
The course is broken into a few sections;
1. Basics - covering all the basics you need to get going with OpenToonz
2. Scene 1 - we start creating straight away in Scene 1, from drawing to animating.
3. Scene 2 - the creation continues in a second scene, as we explore more of OpenToonz.
4. Scene 3 - finally, we tie it all up in Scene 3, and put the 3 scenes together to create one flowing piece of animation.
5. In between each part of the creation there will be videos on the specific part of OpenToonz that we are covering in that part of the creation, so the student can see specifically and in more detail what we are using and how we are using it.
6. There will be a section at the end of each scene covering what we have learnt and what we have used, just to once again reinforce the tools of OpenToonz and how we have used them.
The course is available on Pre-Order at a 40% discount to it's anticipated price when it is 100% complete.
Click the link below to go take a look at the course:
Animating With OpenToonz:
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And here are the links to my courses directly:
Making A Short Animated Movie:
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Locomotion Course Bundle:
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Animating With OpenToonz:
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This 2D animation was created using Opentoonz
OpenToonz is a professional, free (Opensource) 2D animation program.
You can download OpenToonz here:
opentoonz.github.io/e/
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[@warringtribes6689]

Fantastic Video Sir.

[@jameswhitelawanimation]

Thank you so much, I am glad you enjoyed it. Be sure to check out the second one that I will put up soon that continues on with the creation of this scene. Thanks again for watching and your kind words :-)

[@mert.youtube]

👌✨

[@jameswhitelawanimation]

Thank you so much Mert :-)

[@nacergharbi4309]

this is pro .really very good .using blender with opentoonz .could you plz show how you make the blender video .using 3d on a 2d is really good

[@jameswhitelawanimation]

Thank you Nacer, I appreciate your kind words and I am glad you found it good. I will make some more videos of the 3D 2D convergence soon, just as soon as I get the time. Thanks again 🙏😊