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The “I am a piece of shit and nobody will ever love me” factoid is actually a statistical error. You are actually are fantastic and infinitely worthy of people’s company.  That person you used to care about, who taught you to hate yourself by abandoning you, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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HOW TO GET STARTED WITH OPENTOONZ

dundee998

okay, once you got ur opentoonz downloaded, you’re looking at this screen.

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and you’re thinking to yourself, what is this fresh hell, how do i draw, what’s going on 

ya gotta do one thing first my bro. go to ‘window’ and click on ‘toolbar’, then just drag that friendly little line of symbols to the side where it can latch on like a baby to its momma’s breast. that’s where u get ur brush tool. there is not a keyboard shortcut for this, which is odd, but OH WELL. 

also, stretch your window out so it has room to breathe. you may be noticing at this point that the windows in this program have a tendency to follow your cursor around like lost baby ducklings. haven’t figured out how to keep this from happening yet.

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next, in order to enable onionskin, click on the paintbucket tool, go to the canvas, and right click. in the menu that opens, there will be an option to enable onionskin! this is absolutely ridiculous and i don’t know why they did it like this but at least it’s there.

take ur brush tool, and make a stroke. try it again. and again. click on the brush button again, and try. reselect the frame you’re on and try. change to a different tab and give that a whirl. it’s gonna take a few tries, and probably a few program crashes. 

and also you might accidentally delete some of your windows and can’t put them back the way they were supposed to work. if you delete your canvas area, you can get it back by opening the ‘viewer’ window, but it won’t look exactly the way you remember. 

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yyyeah i fucked up a little bit. 

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….. i fucked up a lot, but i think i’ve found my preferred workspace!! to the left, i have my toolbar, on the top, i have my tool settings, and on the bottom, i have my xsheet. now if i could just get those play buttons to stay on the screen…

let’s take a look at that xsheet!! from side to side, we have your layers, which i’m not bothering with right now, and up and down, we have your frames! wow, you might not ever think to yourself. this is an efficient and space-saving way to show frames. anyway.

get urself a shitty bouncing ball going, with a lot of pain and frustration. one drawing per frame. that one frame that is rlly bright yellow? i accidentally added a memo and can’t figure out how to remove it. not important. 

check out how your animation works in the comboviewer window after you’ve disabled onionskin using the paintbucket. (you can use the plain viewer window, but it usually fucks up how many frames get shown.) (also, there are some little triangle brackets to the left of the frames, and if they don’t encompass all the frames you wanna show, they might not show up.)

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okay, looking pretty good! let’s render it! save your scene, go to the batches tab, and click the +add render button. navigate to sandbox > scenes, and click on ur saved project.

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then, you gotta hit the little racecar start flag button up there. your computer will probably ask if toonz has permission to allow incoming connections - hit okay. 

if ur project’s icon turns green, it worked. if it turns red, it didn’t. i don’t know what happens after a project has been successfully rendered cause mine isn’t working. i will get back to yall when i figure out why.

awnuu

I figured out how to give the tools keyboard shortcuts!

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Okay so this is what my screen looks like. I was trying to animate a cat walk cycle earlier but you can ignore all that. ANYWAYS up in the top bar next to ‘Help’ it says ‘Customize’. You gotta click it and then go to ‘Configure Shortcuts’

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That’ll bring up this:

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Okay it looks like you can give a lot of things shortcuts but I’m just going to focus on the Tools. If you click Tools, or that little + sign next to it, you get this:

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I’ve already given the Eraser Tool and the Brush Tool shortcuts so I’ll give the Fill Tool one now. All you have to do is click the little white box next to where it says ‘Remove’ and type in what you want the shortcut to be! I found I had to click the little white box several times before typing anything in it worked.

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Might as well make it F since it’s the Fill Tool. The Remove button will also remove a shortcut (Obviously) I haven’t done a whole lot of exploring, I only gave the Eraser and Brush shortcuts. I also made a shortcut for ‘Play’ but I actually haven’t used it yet. 

Hope this helps!

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