Week 2 : Introduction to 2D Animation using ToonBoom Studio (TBS)
FIRST TIME USING TBS
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
Format
Things to remember:
Who is your target audience? Is your animation going to be uploaded to the internet for everyone to watch? Is your animation for High Definition TV?
Frame-rate
Things to remember:
The lower the frame-rate is, the choppier (less smooth) your animation is going to be
Camera Size
This refers to your screen resolution
REMEMBER: If you need to change the frame-rate or camera size later on, you can do this by going to the File menu > Animation Properties
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
Format
Things to remember:
Who is your target audience? Is your animation going to be uploaded to the internet for everyone to watch? Is your animation for High Definition TV?
Frame-rate
Things to remember:
The lower the frame-rate is, the choppier (less smooth) your animation is going to be
Camera Size
This refers to your screen resolution
REMEMBER: If you need to change the frame-rate or camera size later on, you can do this by going to the File menu > Animation Properties
- Create a New Project
- Look at your Timeline. You can see you have 2 layers (Drawing and Camera). Double-click on Drawing and rename it Background
- On the 1st frame, draw a mountain
with some clouds
- Once you have finished, Extend the Exposure to
frame 20 by Right-clicking on frame 20 > Extend Exposure > OK
- Now we want to make some clouds move
- Click the green + on the Timeline to Add New
Element and change the Name to clouds
- Select frame-1 of Layer Clouds and draw a cloud
- Now decide where you want the cloud to move to. If we want the cloud to move to frame-5, right-click on frame-4 > Extend Exposure
- Turn on Onion Skin
- Now go to frame-5 and draw a cloud. Onion skin
will help you see where to place the next cloud
- Repeat till you have all the movements you want
- Now Play your animation to see what it looks
like
- What happens when you change the FPS?
- What happens to the clouds when you use less
frames?
- What happens to the clouds when you use more
frames?