Basics of 2D FX animation
26.06.2020 2021-09-20 21:22Basics of 2D FX animation
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Week 1. Basics
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Week 2. Improving skills
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Week 3. Fire
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Week 4. Smoke
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Week 5. Explosion
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Week 6. Liquid
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Week 7. Electricity
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Week 8. Presentation
Selecting animation software. Introduction to TVpaint.
In fact, it doesn’t matter in which frame-by-frame animation program you work, because the principles are the same everywhere and learning basic functions will take no more than half an hour. You can use Adobe Animate, ToomBoom Harmony, TVPaint animation, Clip Studio Paint EX and others.
In our case, this is TVpaint, because It is part of the RTFX animation pipeline. Therefore, all material is explained in this program.
Hotkeys
Download configuration file and follow the installation guide: 
| Key | Description |
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| Ctrl+N | Create new layer |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | Create new frame |
| Ctrl+G | Delete selected frame |
| Ctrl+L | Light Table On|Off |
| Ctrl+S | Save project |
| Shift+S | Divide layer |
| W | Flip frames |
| Alt + pen button + move pen on tablet | Canvas scaling |
| Alt + move pen on tablet | Canvas pan |
| Alt + Ctrl + move pen on tablet | Canvas rotation |
| B | Pen |
| V | Cut brush, cutting big chunks |
| D | Color picker |
| Space + move pen on tablet | Erase the area with current tool (if Drying checkbox is active https://i.imgur.com/9vvhZHd.jpg ) |
Animation methods
Additional TVpaint lessons
- A bunch of lessons from the official site (in English): https://www.youtube.com/user/TVPaint/videos
- Solving blurred border issues in TVpaint(in Russian): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yhMifUDv4HUMkTIymRbd-78h2nfOuwvX/view
- Remaining edge issue after deleting a specific area in TVpaint(in Russian): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U11BZmlvkIZU_-OTp9Hxt6L5qiiJHbUu/view
