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How to Add Effects to your Scene
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Introduction
Getting Started
Launching Toon Boom Animate Pro
Welcome Screen
Creating and Opening a Scene
Setting the Scene Length
Scene Settings
Adding a Drawing Layer
Basic Commands
Preferences
Interface
User Interface
Managing the Views
Managing the Toolbars
Managing the Workspace
Interface Navigation
Preferences
Drawing
How to Draw
Tool Properties View
Drawing View
Camera View
Drawing with the Brush or the Pencil
Working with Tool Presets
Viewing the Final Lines as you Draw
Drawing Using the Pencil Tool
Drawing with the Brush Tool
Drawing with Line Texture
Selecting Drawing Objects
Erasing Parts of a Drawing
Reshaping a Drawing Using the Contour Editor Tool
Reshaping Pencil Lines with the Pencil Editor Tool
Drawing With Shapes
Drawing using the Polyline Tool
Drawing using Invisible Lines
Deforming a Drawing Using the Perspective Tool
Cutting Drawing Parts
Smoothing Lines
Working With Text
Override Tool
More Drawing Tools
Drawing Pivot Tool
Drawing Preferences
Traditional Animation
Traditional Animation Tools
Basic Traditional Animation
Advanced Traditional Animation
Cleaning Scanned Drawings
Traditional Animation Preferences
Colour
How to Paint
Colours
Colour Display Modes
Selecting the Current Colour of a Tool
Painting Using the Paint Tool
Painting Pencil Lines with the Ink Tool
Advanced Painting Features
Selecting a Colour in a Drawing
Editing Gradients and Textures
Closing Gaps Manually
Protecting Colours
Inverting a Colour Selection
Line Art and Colour Art Layers
Verifying Zones are Painted
Palettes
Colour Model
Colour Preferences
Timing
Understanding the Xsheet View
Frames
Layers and Columns
Filling Exposure
Navigating Between Frames and Columns
Managing Drawings
Tempo Markers
Annotation Columns
Printing the Xsheet
Element Manager
Preferences
Morphing
Understanding Morphing
Source and Destination Drawings
Morphing Rules
Creating a Basic Morphing Sequence
Tool Properties View
Adjusting the Velocity and Timing
Morphing Tool and Hints
Morphing Layers
Morphing Two Sequences in a Row
Inserting a Morphing Key Drawing
Converting Morphing In-betweens to Drawings
Morphing Holes and Transparencies
Adjusting the Morphing Quality
Tips and Tricks
Preferences
Import
Importing Bitmap Images
Importing PSD Files as Separate Layers
Exporting and Re-Importing a PSD Layout
Scanning Images
Importing AI and PDF Files
Importing from Adobe Flash
Importing QuickTime Movies
Custom Vectorization Parameters
Import Preferences
Scene Setup
Importing the Scene Components
Setting the Camera Frame
Positioning the Scene Components
Cloning and Duplicating Layers
Setting Up the Network
Display Concepts
Creating a Multiplane
Scene Setup Preferences
Library
Understanding the Library Concept
Library View
Structuring the Library
Symbols
Templates
Importing Symbols and Templates
Library Preferences
Character Building
Importing a Model
Relative Sizes
Studying the Model
Setting the Default Separate Position Preference
Naming Conventions
Disabling the Animation on Drawing Layers
Breaking Down the Character
Ordering the Layers
Rigging
Adding Extra Drawings
Setting the Pivots
Skeleton Optimization
Storing the Character in the Library
Appendix
Deformation
About the Deformation Effect
Creating a Basic Deformation Rig
Manipulating a Deformer to Create Animation
Deformation Basics
Deformation Toolbar
Storing the Character in the Library
Converting your Deformation Animation to Drawings
Deformer Effects
Creating a Full Character Turnaround Deformation Rig
Optimizing the Skeleton
Deformation Preferences
3D Space
Enabling the 3D Option
3D Tools
Positioning Elements in 3D Space
3D Camera Motion
Managing a Network with a 3D Scene Setup
Sound
Importing a Sound File
Sound Layer Properties
Sound Displays
Sound Playback
Sound Scrubbing
Editing a Sound File
Add Empty Sound Layer
Lip-sync
Sound Preferences
Animation Paths
Animating a Layer
Differences Between Pegs and Animated Layers
Adding and Deleting Keyframes
Stop-motion and Motion Keyframes
Animating the Camera
Modifying a Path in the Camera View
Modifying a Path in the Timeline View
Modifying a Path in the Function View
Modifying a Path in the Xsheet View
Function Curves
Copying and Pasting a Motion
Adjusting the Velocity
Expression Columns
Preferences
Cut-out Animation
Getting the Character
Keyframes and Drawing Blocks
Creating a Simple Cut-out Animation
Selecting Layers to Animate or Position
Navigating the Hierarchy
Animating using the Transform Tool
Animating using Inverse Kinematics
Animating in Stop-motion
Animating using Computer Generated Interpolation
Flipping Through Poses
Using the Onion Skin in Cut-out Animation
Flipping Parts
Animating Using Symbols
Reusing Extra Drawings, Poses and Facial Expressions
Swapping Images
Adding a New Drawing
Ordering Layers Over Time
Resetting a Transformation
Creating Cycles
Copying and Pasting Animation
Adding Pegs
Offsetting Part of an Animation
Preferences
Effects
Adding Effects
Previewing Effects
Animating an Effect Over Time
How Does a Effect Module Work?
Using Effects
Previewing and Playing Back Effects
Extra Commands
Effect Preferences
Export
Exporting a QuickTime Movie
Exporting an SWF Movie (Flash)
Exporting OpenGL Frames
Rendering Movies and Image Sequences
Export Preferences
Scripting
Creating a Qt Script
Importing Scripts
Linking a Script to a Toolbar Button
Keyboard Shortcuts
Play Guide
Using Toon Boom Play
Launching Toon Boom Play
About Toon Boom Play
Loading an Image Sequence
Toon Boom Play Commands
Utilities
Introduction to Utilities
Running a Utility
Utilities
Pdfimport Utility
How to Vectorize With Bubbles
Swf2tvg Utility
Swfimport Utility
uinfo Utility
utransform Utility
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