Your most important personal discovery about TVPaint

[riche]

i will appreciate hearing from experienced and unexperienced tvpaint user.


what is your pesonal single most important discovery about using the TVPaint program and how has it influenced your workflow.




rich

[Gochris1]

This post isn't about TV Paint entirely. It's about the Cintiq - TV Paint combination.

When I did paper based animaton, the process of animating was all about planning and drawing. The movement of the drawings almost came last...

But now I can make a drawing or two on the Cintiq, and TV Paint allows playback instantly. And so back and forth I go, drawing and immediately watching a playback of the drawings. I don't have to plan as much, I can go where the drawings take me. And sometimes I have made discoveries and the scene came out different and better than I had planned.

So the process of animating is faster, much more fun, and now animating is more about CREATING MOVEMENT than DRAWING.

With TV Paint and the Cintiq, the process of animating is more like interacing with a video game, or playing an instrument.

Regarding TV Paint, I find it's faster to animate with it than Flash. Plus I like the interface better, since it's more like using a pencil than Flash is. I've always found Flash to be a tool that users had to adapt to to animate with. TV Paint is built for drawing and animating from the ground up. And it's simple to create hotkeys in TV Paint.

Gochris

[Fabrice]

it's good to hear a such love declaration

[artfx]

For me, the singe most important realization was having that "Aha! moment" as to what could be done with projects, scenes and clips in the broader project view. Even though I think this feature has been in TVP Animation for a while, I only got into recently. I feel like this was the "missing link" in my desired workflow that can make the creative process fun again.

I never really liked time consuming and elaborate processes. Working on paper, on the computer and needing many different software tools to achieve something never appealed to me. It was a necessity, but one I would much rather have done without. I think I would have been far more prolific as a creator had I obtained or used this feature of TVP Animation sooner.

The idea of being able to complete a sequence, or even an entire short film, with quick line drawings, timing, and even basic sound, as rapidly as is now possible in TVP, makes me want to create more. It lets me explore ideas, and even if I choose not to use them, it doesn't feel like a waste. I can experiment and see the worth of a project so quickly. As a result, I like storyboarding very rough and very quick. Thanks to this workflow and the layers in each clip, I can always go back and add detail, a more intricate background, or a few more frames to describe a character's motion, if I like what I have and know I will move forward. Ideas don't get lost in any kind of development drudgery.

[toonybrain]

My most important personal discovery about TVPaint is that it has become my software of choice for illustrating, too. It is so advanced and able, other softwares seem primitive and restrictive in comparison.

I'm with Gochris1: TVPaint and my Cintiq are a formidable team. I have an illustrated children's book being released this summer - all illustrations done entirely with TVPaint on my Cintiq - and I almost felt compelled to credit both, but an Acknowledgement page in a children's book seemed a bit much. (I will post some of the illustrations once the book comes out.)

Anyway, my job has become more efficient, fun, and WONDERFUL because of my TVPaint. My wish is for it to "live long and prosper" for all our sakes!

[Elodie]

(I will post some of the illustrations once the book comes out.)

Oh yes, please =D

[elmisilhumano]

After discovering TVP I changed from paper and pencils to cintiq and TVPaint. For me the TVPaint was the first software that felt like hand drawing.

M.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Holy smoke!!! I just noticed this:

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And those are just the French speaking members. I had no idea that there are so many of us. Sony Vegas' official forum, a software popular among wedding videographers and journalists worldwide, and one of the 3 or 4 top NLE's, has a figure just 3 times the amount of TVP's.

Congratulations TVPaint crew!!!

[Vent.sauvage]

Paul, I ask lot of good questions

Congratulations TV PAINT crews

[Paul Fierlinger]

I had Google translate your first post, you gentle little wind, and it made no sense to me. I can see how that can be a problem... but it was a pretty post.

[Vent.sauvage]

Paul, my first post is not easy to translate -too much jokes - My first big problem is : i don't speak english , but i can read a little bit.

i think, the last post is more interesting