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Toon Boom Studio 4 .5 User Guide User Guide Legal Notices Corporate Headquarters 7 Laurier Avenue East Montreal, Quebec Canada H2T 1E4 Tel: (514) 278-8666 Fax: (514) 278-2666 www.toonboom.com Disclaimer The content of this manual is covered by a specific limited warranty and exclusions and limit of liability under the applicable License Agreement as supplemented by the special terms and conditions for Adobe®Flash® File Format (SWF). Please refer to the License Agreement and to those special terms and conditions for details. The content of this manual is the property of Toon Boom Animation Inc. and is copyrighted. Any reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. For additional copies of this manual, please contact Toon Boom Animation Inc. at the Corporate Headquarters address. Copyright © 2008 by Toon Boom Animation Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks Toon Boom Studio is a trademark owned by Toon Boom Animation Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 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
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