Some newbie workflow questions!

[Andrew14]

Hello! I'm really new to tvpaint and was hoping someone might be able to help me out.

I'm animating a scene where two characters walk towards each other and then hug. At the moment I have each character animated on separate layers, just linework at this stage, but I was wondering how to go about colouring them. Do I merge the two layers and colour the resulting layer or is there someway to keep the two layers separate? What's the usual way to approach animating a scene like this?

My other question was: I want the animation to be solid coloured artwork with no outlines and I was just curious as to how people tackle that? I know there's the colorize line effect in 10.5 but is this the only way? The obvious thing would be to just switch off the linework layer I know but then the white gaps between the areas of colour are visible (and also there tends to be some aliasing from the colour-fill tool!)

I really appreciate any help you could give me, thank you!

[slowtiger]

I'd colour the line art. Dupplicate that layer, set it to "preserve transparency", and paint with a big brush with the colours of the fills.

I tend to keep line art and colour on separate layers (as long as possible).

[Andrew14]

thanks so much for getting back to me! Have you any advice on how to approach the hugging characters bit?

[Paul Fierlinger]

At one point switch to a single layer to animate both at the same time. You can pick whichever one you want.

[Andrew14]

Ok I'll try that, thank you!

[Elodie]

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