" onclick="window.open(this.href) return false Here is a nice tutorial, where somebody talks about the perspective ruler and shows, how it works. Meaning every line you draw is fitting in the perspective, when snapping is enabled. every line you draw on a layer can be affected by the ruler-layer, even when there is no visible perspective line. every other layer is able to be affected by a ruler-layer (snap-function) possibility to have different rulers on special ruler-layers
In my opinion, it is a very good inspiration when thinking about implementing a kind of a perspective ruler into Tvpaint. One very interesting feature is the Perspective Ruler, availiable as 1, 2 and 3 point perspective. I few weeks ago I was able to buy a software called "Manga Studio 4 EX" for a very low price and yesterday I started to play with it. Viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6261&p=56011" onclick="window.open(this.href) return false Viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5901&p=53384" onclick="window.open(this.href) return false Viewtopic.php?f=34&t=5942" onclick="window.open(this.href) return false TVPaint could do the same, but doesn't.I remember some older posts dealing with some ideas for a perspective ruler in TVPaint: Moho is much more aware of the value of promoting their software in association with prestige products such as Cartoon Saloon's "Song of the Sea", "The Breadwinner", "Wolfwalkers", and "My Father's Dragon". (I know of a few animators on "Klaus" who used TVPaint and their drawings were imported into Harmony for clean up and coloring).Īs I am sure you know, Cartoon Saloon also used Moho extensively in their animation pipeline for animating props (vehicles) and effects. So obviously they have a script for exporting from TVPaint to Harmony. I read that for "My Father's Dragon" Cartoon Saloon continued to use TVPaint for rough animation and clean up (as on their previous films), but switched to using Harmony for coloring.
this may require some fiddling around in TVPaint to make a custom brush that faithfully duplicates the line quality of the Harmony brush). with clean-up it can be a little trickier if the clean-up line style is using a specific Harmony brush. (this is especially true in the case of rough animation. Of course, if the animation requires a Harmony-specific function then that is not possible, but for straight hand drawn animation there is nothing that prevents an animator from working in TVPaint and delivering the work in a Harmony file.
With export/import scripts (such as the script worked out by Cardin Collins: viewtopic.php?t=14067 ) it is feasible to animate and clean-up in TVPaint and export the work to be colored and composited in Harmony. (that " or TVPaint" warmed my heart and brought a smile to my face). I was pleasantly surprised to recently apply for a job which said: "Experience with Harmony or TVPaint is required". says: "Experience using Toonboom Harmony is required" (or at least "desirable"). Almost every 2D animation job listing posted on LInked-In or Creative Heads, etc. However, because of their aggressive marketing they have achieved the status of "everybody uses it", at least in North America. Their main argument is "everybody uses it!" which is not true, of course. They used the old-school sales model of "professional software" for a long time: don't publish any price list, instead let each customer enquire for an offer (this has changed, seems to be subscription-based now, about 800$ a year for the middle version). TB Harmony is only wide-spread because of their very aggressive marketing. (Just a detail: Adobe's Indesign is very picky about file versions (not like Photoshop), but if you have a PDF, you can import it to Affinity Publisher and it will have the very same frames and editable parts as in Indesgn. Add to this their marketing move of giving away the whole package (3 apps) for 150 $ for a certain time. And they were smart enough to include iPad from the very beginning. Don't forget that nowadays there's a metric ton of very good developers available for this kind of work. And it still is pricey - not much for a professioal studio, but for any beginner.Īffinity OTOH had a fresh start, could concentrate on what users really needed in their daily workflow, and could easily improve their user interface. Their products haven't changed significantly since the 90's - it's still the same UI, just with different colours. There's not a lot of functionality Adobe could possibly add to their products, aside from making coffee. I see this as an ongoing process for all graphics software. I haven't used it and can't say anything about reliability. Lots of artists I know use it, especially students. That's a very strong argument for beginners and hobbyists, of which a lot might start with the non-animation version for 50 $.