Toon Boom Studio 4 .5 User Guide
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Credits Documentation Development: Peter Cawthorne Content Development and Art: Tania Gray, Annie Rodrigue Publication Date July 2008 Contents Chapter 1: Toon Boom Studio Basics ................................................... 9 Launching Toon Boom Studio .........................................................................................10 Workspace Functionality ................................................................................................12 Select a Workspace ..................................................................................................12 Create a Workspace .................................................................................................13 Save a Workspace .....................................................................................................13 Rename a Workspace ...............................................................................................13 Restore a Workspace ................................................................................................13 Delete a Workspace .................................................................................................13 Display Toolbars in the Workspace ..........................................................................14 Customize the Workspace ........................................................................................15 Workspace Drop-Down Button ..........................................................................15 Windows .............................................................................................................15 Full Screen ..........................................................................................................15 Extend Side Panels .............................................................................................16 Reset the Workspace ................................................................................................16 Docking and Floating Window Modes ...........................................................................17 Docking Window Mode ............................................................................................17 Floating Window Mode ............................................................................................19 Starting Your Animation Project .....................................................................................20 Creating A New Project ............................................................................................20 Opening An Existing Project ....................................................................................21 Opening a Flip Boom Project ..................................................................................22 Opening an Animation-ish Project ..........................................................................23 Opening a Recently Used Project .............................................................................24 Opening Tutorials .....................................................................................................24 Accessing Web Resources ........................................................................................25 Saving Animation Projects ..............................................................................................26 Saving an Opened Flip Boom Project in Toon Boom Studio ...................................27 Saving an Opened Animation-ish Project in Toon Boom Studio ............................27 Setting the Animation Frame Rate and Camera Size .....................................................28 Selecting Preset Animation Properties .....................................................................29 Adding Scenes to a Movie ..............................................................................................30 Changing the Scene .................................................................................................31 Changing the Background Colour of a Scene ..........................................................31 Reordering Scenes ....................................................................................................32 Renaming Scenes ......................................................................................................33 Showing/Hiding Scenes ............................................................................................34 Deleting Scenes ........................................................................................................34 Setting up Your Studio Session .......................................................................................35 1 Toon Boom Studio User Guide Customizing the Toolbar on Mac OS X .................................................................... 35 Changing the Background Colour of the Drawing and Camera View Windows ..... 36 Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................................. 37 Selecting Units of Measure ...................................................................................... 39 Configuring Video Card Display Options ................................................................. 41 Chapter 2: Drawing ............................................................................................. 43 Creating and Navigating Drawings and Drawing Layers ................................................ 44 Drawing Line Art ............................................................................................................. 45 Drawing in the Drawing or Camera View ................................................................. 47 Drawing Straight Lines, Ellipses and Rectangles ...................................................... 48 Drawing with the Polyline Tool ................................................................................ 49 Drawing Brush Strokes ............................................................................................. 50 Convert Lines To Strokes ......................................................................................... 51 Drawing Pencil Lines ................................................................................................ 51 Converting Centreline Shapes to Brush Strokes ...................................................... 52 Working With Text .......................................................................................................... 53 Creating Text ............................................................................................................ 53 Formatting Text ........................................................................................................ 54 Changing Text Colour ........................................................................................ 56 Converting Text Into Separate Objects ................................................................... 57 Working with Selections ................................................................................................. 58 Grouping Drawing Objects ...................................................................................... 59 Ordering Drawing Objects ....................................................................................... 59 Resizing, Flipping, Rotating and Moving Drawing Objects ..................................... 60 Changing the Centre of Transformation ............................................................ 61 Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Drawing Objects ..................................................... 62 Deforming a Drawing Object ................................................................................... 63 Select Drawing Tool to Include Perspective ...................................................... 63 Changing the Colour of Brush Strokes, Fills and Centreline Objects ...................... 64 Changing the Thickness of Centreline Objects ........................................................ 65 Optimizing Drawing Objects for the Web ...................................................................... 66 Converting Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines ................................................................. 67 Reducing Drawing Layers with the Optimize Command ......................................... 68 Reducing Drawing Layers with the Flatten Command ............................................. 69 Removing Points with the Smooth Command ......................................................... 70 Merging Layers