A complete guide to OpenToonz & Tahoma2D for 2D animation

A complete guide to OpenToonz & Tahoma2D for 2D animation, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.32, with 151 lectures, based on 445 reviews, and has 2399 subscribers.

You will learn about How to draw and animate digitally in these free, open-source programs How to animate using traditional 2D techniques, but using a digital workflow In-depth explanation of the core concepts of OpenToonz & Tahoma2D Full demonstration of all of the drawing tools that you'll need Hands-on projects carefully designed to quickly bring students up to speed This course is ideal for individuals who are Students who are interested in creating traditional 2D animation in a digital environment or Students who have used other animation software and want to migrate to OpenToonz or Tahoma2D or Students who are interested in other forms of digital animation (2D cut out, flexi-animation, effects animation) and need to know the basics of using OpenToonz or Tahoma2D. This is a great starter course to understanding the basic concepts shared between these programs It is particularly useful for Students who are interested in creating traditional 2D animation in a digital environment or Students who have used other animation software and want to migrate to OpenToonz or Tahoma2D or Students who are interested in other forms of digital animation (2D cut out, flexi-animation, effects animation) and need to know the basics of using OpenToonz or Tahoma2D. This is a great starter course to understanding the basic concepts shared between these programs.

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Summary

Title: A complete guide to OpenToonz & Tahoma2D for 2D animation

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.32

Number of Lectures: 151

Number of Published Lectures: 149

Number of Curriculum Items: 151

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 149

Original Price: £99.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to draw and animate digitally in these free, open-source programs
How to animate using traditional 2D techniques, but using a digital workflow
In-depth explanation of the core concepts of OpenToonz & Tahoma2D
Full demonstration of all of the drawing tools that you'll need
Hands-on projects carefully designed to quickly bring students up to speed

Who Should Attend

Students who are interested in creating traditional 2D animation in a digital environment
Students who have used other animation software and want to migrate to OpenToonz or Tahoma2D
Students who are interested in other forms of digital animation (2D cut out, flexi-animation, effects animation) and need to know the basics of using OpenToonz or Tahoma2D. This is a great starter course to understanding the basic concepts shared between these programs

Target Audiences

Students who are interested in creating traditional 2D animation in a digital environment
Students who have used other animation software and want to migrate to OpenToonz or Tahoma2D
Students who are interested in other forms of digital animation (2D cut out, flexi-animation, effects animation) and need to know the basics of using OpenToonz or Tahoma2D. This is a great starter course to understanding the basic concepts shared between these programs

Do you have a yearning to animate digitally and didn’t know where to start or didn’t want to spend money on animation programs beforeyou knew if you liked them. Or perhaps you’re already paying for animation software and want to try something cheaper or even free! Or perhaps you’ve already started using OpenToonz or Tahoma2D, but want to know more.

This is why I’ve made this course. I believe that anyone can learn to animate and enjoy the satisfaction of bringing their characters to life. And with these great programs, you can animate for FREE and this course will show you how.

In this course, I’ll take you from the very beginning, with downloading, installing, setting up and understanding both programs. I’ll show you all of the tools that you’ll need for traditional-style animation. Leading up to showing you how to create your own animations. And you’ll be animating within the first 15 minutes of starting the course!

The course will also show you how you can replicate some of the traditional techniques, found in the 12 principles of animation, of straight ahead animation and pose to pose animation, using tried and tested exercises that we’ll work through together.

With almost 11 hours of video & 130 lessons and demonstrations, exercises & downloads for each project that I work on, this is the complete guide to getting started with traditional animation with OpenToonz & Tahoma2D.

Here are the topics covered in the course

Installing, setup & walk through of the layout
Understanding projects and scenes
Understanding the differences between drawings, frames, levels & columns
A detailed look at the viewer (the drawing area)
A detailed look as the timeline & xsheet (learning all of its features and how to time out your animation)
A look over all of the drawing tools, understand each feature of them
A look at working with colour, including using gradients & special fills
Using the camera. Placing it, moving it & what the settings mean
Preview & rendering your animation, to different formats
A complete demo looking over my shoulder as I work through an animation exercise in full

What are Students Saying about the Course?

“This is one of the best video tutorials I have ever used. Thorough, perfectly paced, and enjoyable.“,
Jonathan L ★★★★★

“A very comprehensive guide on OpenToonz. It gives detailed instructions on the various mechanics of the software and explains concepts thoroughly. The most valuable thing about this course to me is the setup of the environment for 2D animation. This is rarely talked about in any user-created tutorials on the web/YouTube. OpenToonz is free and powerful, but only with the right knowledge can you use it’s full potential. This course definitely facilitates this.”,
Jonathan T ★★★★★

“Section 1 and 2 have been the simplest and quickest way for me to begin animating in OpenToonz without getting bogged down in the complexity of the program.”,
John M ★★★★★

“Awesome job. Your pace of presentation is spot on!“,
John T ★★★★★

“Clear, well paced and beautifully organized! Such positive and precise teaching. I am very excited about completing the course!“,
Mira ★★★★★

“This course far exceeded my expectations. Also the supplemental support through the DarrenT discord server (which is very active) is a really enjoyable community to assist in my animation learning and development. I’m about 2/3 through the course so far and I’ve already made my own animated videos that met my modest animation goals prior to joining this course. If you’re interested in learning animation, this is a wonderful place to begin your journey, you will be able to bring your art to life very quickly. Whether you plan on animating your own cartoon or show, making animations on top of camera footage, or even making animated memes and gifs, this course will have you producing media even before you finish the course! 10/10 would recommend.”,

Piers D ★★★★★

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to the course

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduce yourself

Lecture 3: How to follow the lessons

Lecture 4: Exercises and Resources

Lecture 5: Community and Updates

Lecture 6: The Different OpenToonz versions

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Getting Started: Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing OpenToonz

Lecture 3: Installing Tahoma2D

Lecture 4: Optimising your graphics card

Lecture 5: Setup your graphics card

Lecture 6: OpenToonz: A quick Tour of the interface

Lecture 7: Tahoma2D: A quick Tour of the interface

Lecture 8: Your first animation: Drawing basics

Lecture 9: Your first animation: Animation basics

Lecture 10: Your first animation: Rendering basics

Lecture 11: Exercise and resources – Start your first animation

Chapter 3: The OpenToonz Interface

Lecture 1: The OpenToonz Interface: Introduction

Lecture 2: Tahoma2D – Rooms, themes and the interface

Lecture 3: The docking interface: Rooms

Lecture 4: The docking interface: Panels

Lecture 5: Take a look at the DarrenT room layouts

Lecture 6: Installing the DarrenT room layouts

Lecture 7: Making the most of your screen space – Full screen options

Lecture 8: Exercise and resources – Setting up your Interface

Chapter 4: Projects and Scenes

Lecture 1: Projects and Scenes – Introduction

Lecture 2: OpenToonz: Creating a project – Default folder options

Lecture 3: OpenToonz: Creating a project: Sub-folder per type (optional)

Lecture 4: OpenToonz: Create a project: Sub-folder per scene (optional)

Lecture 5: OpenToonz: Multiple projects roots

Lecture 6: OpenToonz: Creating a scene

Lecture 7: Tahoma – Working with projects in Tahoma

Lecture 8: Tahoma – Creating a scene

Lecture 9: Exercise and resources – Understanding Projects and Scenes

Chapter 5: Drawings, Frames, Levels and Columns

Lecture 1: Drawings, Frames,, Levels and Columns – Introduction

Lecture 2: Levels: Creating levels to draw into

Lecture 3: Levels: Setting the level size

Lecture 4: Levels: Creating drawings – from the new level dialog

Lecture 5: Levels: Creating drawings – from the timeline

Lecture 6: Drawings on the Timeline vs the Level Strip

Lecture 7: Columns – What are they?

Lecture 8: Columns as layers

Lecture 9: Article: Introduction to the 3 Level Types

Lecture 10: Drawing level type: Raster level

Lecture 11: Drawing level type: Toonz Raster level

Lecture 12: Drawing level type: Vector level

Lecture 13: Resizing Drawing Levels

Lecture 14: Exercise and Resources: Understanding drawings, levels and columns

Chapter 6: The Viewer

Lecture 1: The Viewer – Introduction

Lecture 2: Basic usage

Lecture 3: The menu options

Lecture 4: The viewer top toolbar

Lecture 5: The bottom toolbar – Common buttons

Lecture 6: The bottom toolbar – Least-used buttons (optional lesson)

Lecture 7: Animating straight ahead (1 of the 12 animation principles)

Lecture 8: Demo: Straight ahead animation

Lecture 9: Exercise and Resources: The Viewer

Chapter 7: The Timeline and Xsheet

Lecture 1: The timeline and xsheet – Introduction

Lecture 2: Differences between the timeline and xsheet

Lecture 3: Tahoma2D: The Timeline

Lecture 4: Working with drawings and frames

Lecture 5: The timeline toolbar

Lecture 6: The timeline column options

Lecture 7: The timeline column context menu

Lecture 8: The timeline context menu

Lecture 9: Note levels and memos

Lecture 10: The timeline play markers

Lecture 11: [NEW for 1.7] Timeline/Xsheet cell marks

Lecture 12: [NEW for 1.7] Navigating the timeline with Navigation Tags

Lecture 13: Onion Skins

Lecture 14: Animating pose to pose (1 of the 12 animation principles)

Lecture 15: Pose to Pose Demo part 1 – Extremes

Lecture 16: Pose to Pose Demo part 2 – Keys

Lecture 17: Pose to Pose Demo part 3 – Breakdowns

Lecture 18: Pose to Pose Demo part 4 – Timing Charts

Lecture 19: Pose to Pose Demo part 5 – Inbetweens

Lecture 20: Exercise and resources: The timeline and xsheet

Chapter 8: The Drawing Tools

Lecture 1: The drawing tools – Introduction

Lecture 2: The brush tool

Lecture 3: Standard brush tool options

Lecture 4: Brush type extensions

Lecture 5: [New for 1.7] Straight lines with the brush tool

Lecture 6: The geometry tool – Intro

Lecture 7: The geometry tool – Rectangle

Lecture 8: The geometry tool – Circle

Lecture 9: The geometry tool – Ellipse

Lecture 10: The geometry tool – Line

Lecture 11: The geometry tool – Polyline

Lecture 12: The geometry tool – Arc

Lecture 13: The geometry tool – Polygon

Lecture 14: The geometry tool options

Lecture 15: The eraser tool options

Instructors

Darren T
Animator and online educator with OpenToonz

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 3 votes
2 stars: 4 votes
3 stars: 27 votes
4 stars: 125 votes
5 stars: 286 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

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