Okay can we give a huge, I mean, HUGE applause to the last three patreons? They've been with our cartoony girl for how many years and is still kicking. Good job you guys.
Clip Studio's method of duplicating frames is pretty weird, but I eventually managed to figure it out so I'll share it here! (In over a thousand comments someone certainly already has, but...) You click on the frame you want, and the corresponding layer in the corresponding folder will be highlighted in your layers panel. Then, if you duplicate that layer, you have an exact copy of that frame. Then you can right click in the timeline where you want to put the duplicate, and select the layer name on the side to put it on that frame :) Hopefully that makes sense and is helpful, because I really love Clip Studio and I'd hate for this one unintuitive feature to ruin it for you even a little bit! :')
ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid ross
eh I've just seen everyone saying it for years and I've finally been early and I think first on a vid so I was excited :)) also I hope you have a lovely day
I’d love to learn how to create animatics lmao, If anyone knows how to make them on mobile/iPad please tell me- I don’t really have the money to get a PC
Well, I usually use FireAlpaca's onion skin mode and export every frame as well, but recently I've tried Sketchbook animation tool and tried to organize some traditionally sketched stuff into an animatic in Krita. Many headaches and frustrations.
You should! I suggest watching a lot of animatics/animations! I watched an animatic by an artist called SAD-ist and it gave me so much inspiration to draw more and get better at art as she started on flipaclip and is now getting millions of views!
I'm a beginning with digital art, but I suggest starting with storyboards. I go back and forth with them, since I'm trying to find that one program that'll actually animate and is free and I won't have issues with. Some of those good ones I hear about, I can't use because I have a pc instead of a mac. But Animation Desk has helped me learn. That, and Paint3D. Still learning how to do the motion, so I'm still searching.
So I'm pretty late commenting this and someone else mentioned krita already, but they hadn't used the animation part of it yet, and I want to expand upon that. Krita is a free art and animation program, and I found it much better than things like pencil2d which are very bare bones for my taste. Krita is set up in a way that feels a lot more professional and has a lot of options and tools while maintaining an easy to use interface. Having been using Medibang Paint Pro up until this point I would say the switch was very easy, and both being free have a very good program going on. I've started testing out Krita's animation vs just single pieces and so far I'd say it's the best free program I could find with the sheer amount of research I did to find anything I felt I could use. I would love to see LavenderTowne try out more art and/or animation programs, especially some better free ones like Krita, or Medibang (though medibang isn't for animation).
One thing with Krita - ymmv but in my experience syncing your animatic to audio is VERY difficult, especially if your animation is longer than like 15 seconds or so. It would go out of sync if you hit play in the middle of the animation, and when my animatic hit ~20 sec the audio started skipping and didnt take the video with it which was extremely frustrating. In general I swear by Krita but I actually found this video bc I was sick of it messing with my audio sync and looking for a better animatic program lol
There is also a photoshop logo in the corner of storyboarder that takes you directly to your usual drawing program (if you don’t have photoshop), and each board comes with several named layers if you open it there too. It’s very convenient for me because it’s hard to draw directly on storyboarder (I use surface pro)
I always use Krita for my animation stuff. I like the brush options and ability to use blending modes on the layers. They haven't added motion tweening yet, but if they do I think it'll be perfect, and it's free! ^u^
I know I'm a year late, but how do you get Krita to stop glitching when animating? Sound lagging/jumping, not lining up with the frames when you jump back, etc.? I've been having these issues and it's really annoying because I actually understand the layout of Krita lol
Side note for Storyboard Pro: if you are a student (you need a student email and an ID#, if I remember correctly) the annual price is $80 as long as you still have the email. Still far from the cheapest option, but I think it may be worth it if you're actively using it. You also get 21 days free to test it out before you commit to anything. (ToonBoom Harmony is $160 with the same stipulations btw if you're into animation)
For Clip Studio Paint: to duplicate a frame and edit it without messing with the old frame, you need to duplicate the layer in the animation folder and then re-assign a new keyframe in your animation to point to that duplicate layer. I just opened up something I"m working on; I duplicated layer 11, and it made a new layer called layer 12, which I could then reassign in my animation as a new keyframe an edit separately. It's a little difficult to get how the animation folder layers interact with the frames on your timeline but once you do it's pretty intuitive! Hope that helps.
@@TheBlep NP, it took me weeks to figure out that's how you do it, I wanted to save other people the pain lmao. Once you realize you can click on a keyframe and manually assign WHAT layer it points to, so many options open up for you! This is also why you can make a new layer in the folder but not actually do anything with it. It's not assigned to a frame until you do that on the timeline. You have to link them up and once that link is established you're golden.
I’m doing a masters in Animation atm, specialising in storyboarding and Storyboard Pro is a really great program that we’re all taught to use. It’s really intuitive and easy to use, especially for a professional grade software. You can also just make straight up storyboards as well as animatics and you can caption each frame with dialog and actions which is super helpful. But it is really really pricy and tbh, you don’t need an expensive software to make a great animatic or storyboard. You can easily just draw out each frame and put it in an editing software to make it into an animatic. It’s all about shot composition, variety and drawing skill (especially with perspective) with storyboarding.
Cool thing about Storyboarder: it has a button on the top right of tje screen that allows you to open a board in photoshop, or any drawing program that supports .psd files (in my case I use Krita). It's very practical and you don't need to be limited by the default tools. When you save the file it automatically creates a krita (or PS) file inside a folder on the project's folder, and instantly updates it on Storyboarder. I haven't really done animatics with it, so I think it would get clunky trying to make many drawings, but it's a solid choice for storyboarding when you are just trying to figure out camera angles and composition. Another cool feature is the "scene editor" space, where you can position the 3D assets (the pose selection is generous, and you can import new assets from programs like Blender) and insert multiple cameras. Then it's saved as a jpeg that you can import into your drawing program as a reference layer. I was storyboarding a short animated film a few months ago, and the program REALLY helped the process, as there was this complex scene inside a subway wagon and I needed to get the camera angles and character positions as consistent as possible.
The thing about Clip-studio Paint duplicating is: You need to Duplicate it on the right where your layers are. Than you Go to your Timeline, and assign that layer to a new frame. You can assign it if you right click on the frame were you want to have it. There will be a popup with all the layers from the folder you are working in. I don't know if I explained it correctly, my English is not the best :D
I know there’s a Wacom tablet that comes with a free version of clip studio?? (The full version) because I have it?? Like, it comes with a free key to get the actual program so I’d suggest looking into it if anyone’s interested??
i started using storyboarder now and it's really good. i'm not sure how new this feature is, but you can actually edit individual boards in different programs (the default is photoshop, but it supports most drawing programs, including free ones like krita and firealpaca). there's an easy tutorial on how to change it in the FAQs and then the hotkey to open a frame is CTRL+period. you can only have one board open at a time though (at least in firealpaca). this made the program a million times better for me as i dont like using the brushes it has preset and i couldn't find a stabiliser option
13:30 Wick editor is basically the same but Free, onion skin and it works with tablets pretty well, but you can use mouse and edit tools as well and it’s really good like that too
Fun fact, CSP often has sales. I got the pro version for only 25 dollars. It's a really complete drawing program that ALSO comes with animation, definitely worth that price
I work in Clip Studio and animated in it for a long time. To duplicate the cel I just copy and paste the layer in the layer hierarchy > rename the cel > right click where on the timeline you want the duplicated cel to be then select it from the pop up menu. Easy peasy when you get the hang of it.
Ohhhh!!! Thanks for this video, I was planning on making an animatic (might end up being a pmv) and I wasn't aware that Clip Studio worked for it! I was about to try to piece it together on kinemaster or something of the sort- like a very tedious gacha mv :/
For Clip Studio Paint, the way you can duplicate the frames and edit them is by duplicating the layer of the frame you want to make a slight change to. If the layer you're duplicating is 1, then it should duplicate and rename itself to 2 (or 1a depending on the amount of frames you have already). You can then add that new renamed frame to the timeline and make your changes to that 2 without affecting 1.
I got ClipStudio EX on sale for $150 a few years ago and it's become my favorite program for everything. I'm still amazed at how much it's updated considering it's not subscription based.
For browser animatics/animations I really recommend Wix Editor! It's a bit wonky, but I have made a few things w/ it and it's surprisingly good (for a web program). Not very intuitive, but they have a channel w/ simple tutorials! :D
In regards to how to copy a frame in CSP: 1) copy and paste the frame 2) the frame won’t show up on the timeline, but it /will/ show up in your layer tab, usually in the animation folder 3) click the little frame button that has a link on it, it should be at the top of your animation timeline, next to the “add frame “ button 4) a list of “layers” aka frames, will pop up, select the one you just pasted, and boom! It’ll show up on the timeline !! (It’s a pretty round abt way to do it, which I’m hoping they’ll streamline, but honestly being able to use the full set of csp tools in animation is a game changer, so I recommend it!)
You can also add drawing you’ve already done to the timeline this way, so you can animate parts of your illustrations to turn into a gif! ALSO CSP goes on sale a lot! Wait for a sale and you can get it like half off (or more)!
Hello Lavender!! Lovely to see you! "Turning stuff into cute girls" ideas: - School subjects as cute girls - Days of the week as cute girls - Desserts as cute girls - The four elements as cute girls And that's all! I hope you at least see this, sorry I'm a day late xD!
In Clip studio paint You can copy your cell by selecting the cell in the animation timeline then Copying it (Windows is Ctrl + C) then paste it (Windows is Ctrl + V) and it will add a new layer in the right hand layers above the previous frame layer. the name may be a copy version of the layer copied. once you do that you then click where you wanna paste it in the timeline. click in the tools on the timeline of "Specify cells" and click the name corresponding to the frame name of the copied frame. then hit okay. it will then paste it into the selected location on the timeline. hope this helped. :)
Blender with greasepencil is quite good if you have the patience to learn it. Been using it professionally to do animatics for over 5 years. Its gotten very good by version 3.6 now. The reason I use it is that I am working on upto 5 minutes of animation in a single file so I need a versatile dopesheet to move around large sections of animatics to get the timings right. Also the ability to slice and move around audio is very important to me. There is a numerical input available for every dopesheet edit. Since its Blender I can also use 3D in my animatics if I need it. As for other apps: Animate CC (not free) is great, Its industry standard in India for animatics. Krita (free) is ok but the audio feature is broken as of now. Its now got layer transform tweening though. It better for final animation for styles that need raster brushes. Pencil 2D (free) is too simplistic and kind of trash for professional work. Storyboarder (atleast the free version) is not good if you want to do anything more dynamic than a blockout. Audio import was broken when I tried it.
Thank you for making these! I've been aspiring to animate for a while and I think starting out with just posting animatics would be better, but I wasn't sure how so this really helps!
This was just posted thank you so much for more content Jesus this video already has so many views you know you're famous when in a few seconds of posting you have over 700 views
I know I’m incredibly late, but I couldn't find any comments explaining the CSP copying frames problem, so here I am! (I’m bad at explaining, so I hope I can get the point across dskjfhskdj) To copy new frames in CSP (as of right now), you need to duplicate the frame you want to copy. What do I mean? Well, in CSP, every frame is saved (kinda). Even if you remove it from the animation timeline (the thing at the bottom), it’s still saved in the layer section. It’s just not on the timeline anymore. In the layer section, you can see that every timeline has its own folder. In this folder, is where the frames are stored. This is also where you can name them, change their opacity, and change their mode (normal, multiply, etc). TL;DR, the animation timeline shows the frames that are in the animation/animatic. The layer/animation folders show every single frame that you've drawn on that timeline. Now that you’ve got that basic idea, here’s how to do it. 1. Boot up CSP, and open an animation canvas 2. Draw something (it doesn’t really matter, just a scribble will do) 3. Select the drawing with the lasso tool, and click the copy and paste button (CTRL+C and then CTRL+V also works). 4. Look at the layer section, do you see something new? A layer simply named 2 should be there. This layer should be the same as the original frame. 5. Now, to insert that new layer into the animation, you have to left-click the timeline. 6. A popup/tab should appear. On the left side, it should show a list of all of the frames in the layer folder. 7. Click 2 8. Another frame should appear on the timeline And there you go! If I explained everything correctly, you should be able to edit the frames individually. I advise just playing around with it, so you can get a feel for the program. Thank you for reading and I hope I helped!❤️
I just wanna say you have helper me so much holy crap u and some other yt artists are like the mothers of the next gen of artist. Love u lav, been a fan for 3 years
Another point to add for storyboarder is that it's link to photoshop. Basically, you have a photoshop icon on the top right corner of the programm and if you click on it, it'll open the frame you're at in photoshop, allowing you to modify/work on it using all of photoshop's tools. Then, once you save in photoshop, storyboarder will automatically update the frame in the timeline and create a photoshop file in your computer. So if you have photoshop storyboarder is an excellent program for animatics. _Signed an animation student who just finish the first version of her animatic on storyboarder
Same but this is my situation: Me : wants to upload a animation I did on krita to RUclips Also me : *I don't know how to upload a video nor know how to use a editing program.*
I use clip studio Paint and it took me so long and watching so many tutorials in slow motion to figure out how to copy and paste a frame and edit it without messing with the original frame. I'm not sure if this is the only or quickest way to do it but, you lasso select everything on your original frame and 'copy and paste' it (there are a few buttons that appear just under the selection, click the one that says copy and paste). You then go to your animation timeline at the bottom and right click the place where you want the new frame to be. A box will come up with some options and on the left side of that box, your frame numbers will be listed. If the original frame you wanted to copy was for example, frame 1 then the new frame will have the name 1a. Click where it says 1a and your new frame will appear on the timeline. You are able to edit this frame, without making changes to the original frame. I hope this helps!! 💜
I didn't even know there was any animatic programs. I have only used fire alpaca and exported each and every frame. Thank you Lavendertowne for making this video
For your CSP question: What you can do to duplicate the cel to edit, it is right click your cel in animation folder, click duplicate, and then assign the duplicate cel in the timeline to the desired by right clicking the frame, selecting assign cel, and choosing the new cel :) Thank you for the vid! I am working on learning some animation stuff in csp
somehow i had no idea that there were actually animatic applications. i just started an animatic doing it frame by frame in my current drawing app and i knew it was gonna take forever ^^; this is super helpful!
I love how la blah blah blah has just become known to the Lavender Towne channel. Like I bet they never thought that they would become a super well known member. Or maybe they did idk.
Draw every frame in paint, save then click and drag every frame into movie maker, then change the time of every single frame to like idk half a second, yes peak technology 👁👄👁
I was today years old when I found out that there are actual programs made for making animatics and that people don't just use their animation software and duplicate each frame
There are two ways you can duplicate cels in Clip Studio Paint, with one being direct and the other being more roundabout. Here are two videos that give a concise overview of it, so I'll link them below. The direct method (using vector layers): ruclips.net/video/lXe2TYiTR5M/видео.html The roundabout method (using raster layers) : ruclips.net/video/cizV4fR2FsI/видео.html
You can copy cels in CSP by doing this (if this is what you meant) 1. Ctrl + C Ctrl + V while selecting the cel you want. 2. Once copy is made go to your timeline. 3. Click specify cels. 4. Select the name of the cel you want to add into the timeline. 5. Click ok and it should work (I'm not using CSP right now so idk if that is exactly right) Idk if anyone will see this but if you do I hope this helps. Edit: also make sure you have the red thingy on the timeline (idk what it's called) in front of the previous cel. The cel will go to wherever you have selected with that
Another big note about Clip Studio Paint, is that they have sales ALL the bloody time, so you'll more than likely catch the EX version for a great sale
Thank you so much for this! I personally, whenever I actually have the energy for animatics, use Procreate and then export all the frames to Windows Video Editor because it's the only one I know how to even remotely use. It's a bit difficult and time-consuming, but both of the programs are still easy to use and so I wouldn't complain too much about it personally.
I don't know if the duplicating cells question was answered already but I do it like this: Either ctrl+c ctrl+v, or right click on the cell you want to duplicate and click duplicate layer/cell. Then you have the duplicate you can mess with you just need to assign the cell to the frame you want it to be on on your timeline. Probably want to rename it as well for easier identification. Assigning cells is easy as well. On the timeline, near the new cell and new folder button, there is a button with a chain on it. Click that while on the frame you want the cell to be on. Select the cell you need from the list and done.
2 tips for coping and pasting on csp (I'm sure there are better ways but these just work for me). Make a frame, copy and paste a frame under it and rename it to the same as the cell (the you can delete the original). Or the less tedious, make a cell and click create folder and insert layer, that will make the cell a folder, other cells will also become folders, go in the folder and copy the layer (or just copy the folder) and you can paste it into the other folders. Bonus of the folders is that the layers inside will be normal layers, meaning you can add many layers and it will count as that one cell. Sorry for the long comment, I just thought it might be useful.
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Here are links to the programs!
1. www.toonboom.com/products/sto...
2. wonderunit.com/storyboarder/
3. www.clipstudio.net/en/
4. theplot.io/
Thank youuu
It's so weird, I just came back here to see if You had posted the programs and literally you just posted this 6 minutes ago haha, Great timing
Thank you!
thanks so much!
Thanks
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that she was making animatics for us in the middle of the night?
I could see the 6 pm icon at the corner of her screen
If you look at some of the other times you could see 11:00pm, 12:00am, 2:30am
Oh yea it said 2am for me
Oh gosh-
@Sarah Georgina Galindez I think you meant pm 😂
Okay can we give a huge, I mean, HUGE applause to the last three patreons? They've been with our cartoony girl for how many years and is still kicking. Good job you guys.
our boy leblebleble is a true hero
@@cassiefromooo They are tho. 🥺
@@cassiefromooo they are a legend
love the pfp
Mhm!
I owe this channel a lot for my personal development in my art, I’ve learned sooo much and I’m so grateful.
I’m scared to refresh
Sameee
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same :D now i can draw people instead of barf :D
SAME
Clip Studio's method of duplicating frames is pretty weird, but I eventually managed to figure it out so I'll share it here! (In over a thousand comments someone certainly already has, but...)
You click on the frame you want, and the corresponding layer in the corresponding folder will be highlighted in your layers panel. Then, if you duplicate that layer, you have an exact copy of that frame. Then you can right click in the timeline where you want to put the duplicate, and select the layer name on the side to put it on that frame :)
Hopefully that makes sense and is helpful, because I really love Clip Studio and I'd hate for this one unintuitive feature to ruin it for you even a little bit! :')
THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks!
bro u just saved my life thank you😭😭
Imagine actually having money.
Lol, couldn’t be me.
#CantRelate
( I'm hella broke )
What is money? Never heard of them
Same
@GGR Makes waaaow
Money what's that? Who's he?
lmao i can't even finish one drawing in one day, imagine having to draw many. animators are on another level.
just put minimal effort into each frame to get alot of them
@@worldender7099 and then refine and edit
Ikr!
I like to do outline and basic colour, then go and add detail after
Yep
So we're doing animatics now, radical
ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid ross
Ok
@@AxxLAfriku what 🤩
@@Aprianex 💀
@@Aprianex
🎶But you won't stop blabbing! 🎶
🎶Please shut your mouth!🎶
🎶 Go out and look for someone who cares and someone WHO ASKED🎶
lavandertowne was an art god but now she's also a animation god
let's get a applause everyone
*clapping rapidly*
Claps intensley
I mean, she's animated since uni days
👏👏👏👏
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
I personally don’t get why people say “early” or “first” because I think it’s harder to be last
That's somewhat threatening
@@redman7775 lol
eh I've just seen everyone saying it for years and I've finally been early and I think first on a vid so I was excited :)) also I hope you have a lovely day
that's fucking ominous-
I'm scared now
@@redman7775 how
Krita is complete free and it has Animation built in right of the bat, it has all of the features that professional grade animation software have
Oh okay! I’ll have to check it out :0
I feel like it's good for animation but animatics once the file gets too big it starts to crash a lot at lwast for me ;-;
I’d love to learn how to create animatics lmao, If anyone knows how to make them on mobile/iPad please tell me- I don’t really have the money to get a PC
Same I really want to know how to make them but I only have a phone to use-
@@oaixen2594 FlipaClip is amazing!!
flipaclip is pretty good, some people are masters at it they can make such smooth and good animations it may take time but its worth the result
I know how to make them,
I just need to figure out how to draw-
✨made in kinemaster✨
It would be fun to make Disney Princess into magical Girls
Repost if you like too.
Most of the disney princess are already magical I would rather her convert different characters into Disney princess
Ye
@@ghost_shivers5276 OWLL
@@GoldArtsYT GOLDDD
@@nancyminshall5901 that would be fun too≧∇≦
Me: *being a chaotic evil and using procreate to make my frames*
bahaha nice
Well, I usually use FireAlpaca's onion skin mode and export every frame as well, but recently I've tried Sketchbook animation tool and tried to organize some traditionally sketched stuff into an animatic in Krita. Many headaches and frustrations.
I watch an animator called SAD-ist that is getting millions of views, and she started on flipaclip so you can do it!
@I_Eat_Mochis Scuse me ? xD
@I_Eat_Mochis Oh. I really thought you were saying "Teka is over here with her mfing screenshots" I was confused, sorry xD
I wanna make animatics but I lack motivation 💀
Omg same 💀
Sameee
same, im pretty sure id lose motivation 40 frames in
Same
Same :'D
I've actually been thinking of making animatics
You should go for it if you’re still not sure
@@ebb5555 thank you:)
You should! I suggest watching a lot of animatics/animations! I watched an animatic by an artist called SAD-ist and it gave me so much inspiration to draw more and get better at art as she started on flipaclip and is now getting millions of views!
I'm a beginning with digital art, but I suggest starting with storyboards. I go back and forth with them, since I'm trying to find that one program that'll actually animate and is free and I won't have issues with. Some of those good ones I hear about, I can't use because I have a pc instead of a mac. But Animation Desk has helped me learn. That, and Paint3D. Still learning how to do the motion, so I'm still searching.
00:23 storyboard pro
5:50 storyborder
9:04 clip studio paint
13:03 Plot
Eyestrain at around 5:00 just thought Id add this as it really hurt my eyes and I had to skip that part
Bump
When i pressed the timestamp, my eyes hurted bad-
God yeah. Ive got some sensory problems and that straight up made me feel sick.
Thank you, would've sucked if I watched that part before seeing this!
I feel dizzy now lol
This is perfect timing as I'm looking into making animatics!
Yep, same for me.
So I'm pretty late commenting this and someone else mentioned krita already, but they hadn't used the animation part of it yet, and I want to expand upon that.
Krita is a free art and animation program, and I found it much better than things like pencil2d which are very bare bones for my taste. Krita is set up in a way that feels a lot more professional and has a lot of options and tools while maintaining an easy to use interface. Having been using Medibang Paint Pro up until this point I would say the switch was very easy, and both being free have a very good program going on. I've started testing out Krita's animation vs just single pieces and so far I'd say it's the best free program I could find with the sheer amount of research I did to find anything I felt I could use.
I would love to see LavenderTowne try out more art and/or animation programs, especially some better free ones like Krita, or Medibang (though medibang isn't for animation).
One thing with Krita - ymmv but in my experience syncing your animatic to audio is VERY difficult, especially if your animation is longer than like 15 seconds or so. It would go out of sync if you hit play in the middle of the animation, and when my animatic hit ~20 sec the audio started skipping and didnt take the video with it which was extremely frustrating. In general I swear by Krita but I actually found this video bc I was sick of it messing with my audio sync and looking for a better animatic program lol
There is also a photoshop logo in the corner of storyboarder that takes you directly to your usual drawing program (if you don’t have photoshop), and each board comes with several named layers if you open it there too. It’s very convenient for me because it’s hard to draw directly on storyboarder (I use surface pro)
I can't be the only on who is sad she didn't link any of the programs... Could anybody tell how to find the ligit StoryBorder
IKR!!!! SAME
Oops! I was going to! I'll add them later today
@@LavenderTowne thank you !
@@LavenderTowne Thank you so much
Same here
Is it just me, or was the "3-D" effect lines kinda straining on the eyes? Probably just me ^^;
No not just you.
It hurt my eyes too
I hate it so much hurts my eyes and very unnecessary
Same for me, idk if it was intentional but it hurt my eyes, i cant tell what the things actually look like T^T
It makes it look like a 2000s home video
It would be fun to make Disney Princess into magical Girls
Repost this if you like it too
U can't repost on yt
@Kaeya Alberich oh
I always use Krita for my animation stuff. I like the brush options and ability to use blending modes on the layers. They haven't added motion tweening yet, but if they do I think it'll be perfect, and it's free! ^u^
I know I'm a year late, but how do you get Krita to stop glitching when animating? Sound lagging/jumping, not lining up with the frames when you jump back, etc.? I've been having these issues and it's really annoying because I actually understand the layout of Krita lol
@@yourlocaltheatrekid900 if you ever figure this out let me know bc same
@@thaliapeters949 I gave up and moved to blender 😭
@@yourlocaltheatrekid900 do you know any program other than blender(and krita)? my computer just wont support blender
krita is making me go crazy
@@dangeroushanako5623 other than the ones mentioned in this video, not really :/
I’ve kind of just stuck with Blender
Side note for Storyboard Pro: if you are a student (you need a student email and an ID#, if I remember correctly) the annual price is $80 as long as you still have the email.
Still far from the cheapest option, but I think it may be worth it if you're actively using it. You also get 21 days free to test it out before you commit to anything.
(ToonBoom Harmony is $160 with the same stipulations btw if you're into animation)
Wow they even milk students for money, what a class act these Storyboard pro and way to gatekeep the industry behind a paywall.
For Clip Studio Paint: to duplicate a frame and edit it without messing with the old frame, you need to duplicate the layer in the animation folder and then re-assign a new keyframe in your animation to point to that duplicate layer. I just opened up something I"m working on; I duplicated layer 11, and it made a new layer called layer 12, which I could then reassign in my animation as a new keyframe an edit separately. It's a little difficult to get how the animation folder layers interact with the frames on your timeline but once you do it's pretty intuitive! Hope that helps.
Thank you so much
@@TheBlep NP, it took me weeks to figure out that's how you do it, I wanted to save other people the pain lmao. Once you realize you can click on a keyframe and manually assign WHAT layer it points to, so many options open up for you! This is also why you can make a new layer in the folder but not actually do anything with it. It's not assigned to a frame until you do that on the timeline. You have to link them up and once that link is established you're golden.
I just finished making an ace attorney animation a few days ago. This is a sign telling me to animate more.
I just saw it and it's amazing, keep up the good work!!
Yeah!
I planned an animatic for Pokémon S/V, and I think this is a sign telling me to start working on it
I’m doing a masters in Animation atm, specialising in storyboarding and Storyboard Pro is a really great program that we’re all taught to use. It’s really intuitive and easy to use, especially for a professional grade software. You can also just make straight up storyboards as well as animatics and you can caption each frame with dialog and actions which is super helpful. But it is really really pricy and tbh, you don’t need an expensive software to make a great animatic or storyboard. You can easily just draw out each frame and put it in an editing software to make it into an animatic. It’s all about shot composition, variety and drawing skill (especially with perspective) with storyboarding.
Cool thing about Storyboarder: it has a button on the top right of tje screen that allows you to open a board in photoshop, or any drawing program that supports .psd files (in my case I use Krita). It's very practical and you don't need to be limited by the default tools. When you save the file it automatically creates a krita (or PS) file inside a folder on the project's folder, and instantly updates it on Storyboarder. I haven't really done animatics with it, so I think it would get clunky trying to make many drawings, but it's a solid choice for storyboarding when you are just trying to figure out camera angles and composition.
Another cool feature is the "scene editor" space, where you can position the 3D assets (the pose selection is generous, and you can import new assets from programs like Blender) and insert multiple cameras. Then it's saved as a jpeg that you can import into your drawing program as a reference layer.
I was storyboarding a short animated film a few months ago, and the program REALLY helped the process, as there was this complex scene inside a subway wagon and I needed to get the camera angles and character positions as consistent as possible.
You were the one who inspired me to draw
The thing about Clip-studio Paint duplicating is: You need to Duplicate it on the right where your layers are. Than you Go to your Timeline, and assign that layer to a new frame. You can assign it if you right click on the frame were you want to have it. There will be a popup with all the layers from the folder you are working in. I don't know if I explained it correctly, my English is not the best :D
Yeah i use it alot and thats the only thing that annoys me
I know there’s a Wacom tablet that comes with a free version of clip studio?? (The full version) because I have it?? Like, it comes with a free key to get the actual program so I’d suggest looking into it if anyone’s interested??
I got it with my intuos
@@pufthebirb yes it’s only for two years
I know the intuos art came with a key, however as far as I'm aware that particular model has been discontinued.
i started using storyboarder now and it's really good. i'm not sure how new this feature is, but you can actually edit individual boards in different programs (the default is photoshop, but it supports most drawing programs, including free ones like krita and firealpaca). there's an easy tutorial on how to change it in the FAQs and then the hotkey to open a frame is CTRL+period. you can only have one board open at a time though (at least in firealpaca). this made the program a million times better for me as i dont like using the brushes it has preset and i couldn't find a stabiliser option
13:30
Wick editor is basically the same but
Free, onion skin and it works with tablets pretty well, but you can use mouse and edit tools as well and it’s really good like that too
Fun fact, CSP often has sales. I got the pro version for only 25 dollars. It's a really complete drawing program that ALSO comes with animation, definitely worth that price
I love how this how video is just her making her intro for the video
I work in Clip Studio and animated in it for a long time. To duplicate the cel I just copy and paste the layer in the layer hierarchy > rename the cel > right click where on the timeline you want the duplicated cel to be then select it from the pop up menu. Easy peasy when you get the hang of it.
Ohhhh!!! Thanks for this video, I was planning on making an animatic (might end up being a pmv) and I wasn't aware that Clip Studio worked for it! I was about to try to piece it together on kinemaster or something of the sort- like a very tedious gacha mv :/
For Clip Studio Paint, the way you can duplicate the frames and edit them is by duplicating the layer of the frame you want to make a slight change to. If the layer you're duplicating is 1, then it should duplicate and rename itself to 2 (or 1a depending on the amount of frames you have already). You can then add that new renamed frame to the timeline and make your changes to that 2 without affecting 1.
You can literally make any of my bad days 1000 times better! Your voice is pure magic
I have a suggestion for a random things as cute girls:
Trees as cute girls- like birch, oak, maple
that actually sounds adorable
@@alittlelessthanok yesssss
For animatics, I've used both flash 8 and krita.
If you're interested in clip studio, they often have discounts. I got the pro version for 50% off during a summer sale
I was just talking to my friend about making animatics yesterday, so this is pretty frickin' cool.
I got ClipStudio EX on sale for $150 a few years ago and it's become my favorite program for everything. I'm still amazed at how much it's updated considering it's not subscription based.
Me, a stop-motion animator who has no use whatsoever for hand-drawn animatics: "Ooh, I'll have to keep that one in mind"
For browser animatics/animations I really recommend Wix Editor! It's a bit wonky, but I have made a few things w/ it and it's surprisingly good (for a web program). Not very intuitive, but they have a channel w/ simple tutorials! :D
Me who can’t use pc for art: *yes pc art animation programs go brrr*
In regards to how to copy a frame in CSP: 1) copy and paste the frame
2) the frame won’t show up on the timeline, but it /will/ show up in your layer tab, usually in the animation folder
3) click the little frame button that has a link on it, it should be at the top of your animation timeline, next to the “add frame “ button
4) a list of “layers” aka frames, will pop up, select the one you just pasted, and boom! It’ll show up on the timeline !!
(It’s a pretty round abt way to do it, which I’m hoping they’ll streamline, but honestly being able to use the full set of csp tools in animation is a game changer, so I recommend it!)
You can also add drawing you’ve already done to the timeline this way, so you can animate parts of your illustrations to turn into a gif! ALSO CSP goes on sale a lot! Wait for a sale and you can get it like half off (or more)!
Hello Lavender!! Lovely to see you!
"Turning stuff into cute girls" ideas:
- School subjects as cute girls
- Days of the week as cute girls
- Desserts as cute girls
- The four elements as cute girls
And that's all! I hope you at least see this, sorry I'm a day late xD!
Nintendo characters as cute girls-
I didn't just say that.
In Clip studio paint You can copy your cell by selecting the cell in the animation timeline then Copying it (Windows is Ctrl + C) then paste it (Windows is Ctrl + V) and it will add a new layer in the right hand layers above the previous frame layer. the name may be a copy version of the layer copied. once you do that you then click where you wanna paste it in the timeline. click in the tools on the timeline of "Specify cells" and click the name corresponding to the frame name of the copied frame. then hit okay. it will then paste it into the selected location on the timeline. hope this helped. :)
“I don’t like the ui, it reminds me of mobile art programs”
Me for no reason other than that I’m completely on mobile: s a l t
Blender with greasepencil is quite good if you have the patience to learn it. Been using it professionally to do animatics for over 5 years. Its gotten very good by version 3.6 now.
The reason I use it is that I am working on upto 5 minutes of animation in a single file so I need a versatile dopesheet to move around large sections of animatics to get the timings right. Also the ability to slice and move around audio is very important to me. There is a numerical input available for every dopesheet edit. Since its Blender I can also use 3D in my animatics if I need it.
As for other apps:
Animate CC (not free) is great, Its industry standard in India for animatics.
Krita (free) is ok but the audio feature is broken as of now. Its now got layer transform tweening though. It better for final animation for styles that need raster brushes.
Pencil 2D (free) is too simplistic and kind of trash for professional work.
Storyboarder (atleast the free version) is not good if you want to do anything more dynamic than a blockout. Audio import was broken when I tried it.
"Toonboom softwares are very expensive"
Me, copying them from my school's computers: they are?????
Thank you for making these! I've been aspiring to animate for a while and I think starting out with just posting animatics would be better, but I wasn't sure how so this really helps!
This was just posted thank you so much for more content Jesus this video already has so many views you know you're famous when in a few seconds of posting you have over 700 views
I know I’m incredibly late, but I couldn't find any comments explaining the CSP copying frames problem, so here I am!
(I’m bad at explaining, so I hope I can get the point across dskjfhskdj)
To copy new frames in CSP (as of right now), you need to duplicate the frame you want to copy. What do I mean? Well, in CSP, every frame is saved (kinda). Even if you remove it from the animation timeline (the thing at the bottom), it’s still saved in the layer section. It’s just not on the timeline anymore. In the layer section, you can see that every timeline has its own folder. In this folder, is where the frames are stored. This is also where you can name them, change their opacity, and change their mode (normal, multiply, etc).
TL;DR, the animation timeline shows the frames that are in the animation/animatic. The layer/animation folders show every single frame that you've drawn on that timeline.
Now that you’ve got that basic idea, here’s how to do it.
1. Boot up CSP, and open an animation canvas
2. Draw something (it doesn’t really matter, just a scribble will do)
3. Select the drawing with the lasso tool, and click the copy and paste button (CTRL+C and then CTRL+V also works).
4. Look at the layer section, do you see something new? A layer simply named 2 should be there. This layer should be the same as the original frame.
5. Now, to insert that new layer into the animation, you have to left-click the timeline.
6. A popup/tab should appear. On the left side, it should show a list of all of the frames in the layer folder.
7. Click 2
8. Another frame should appear on the timeline
And there you go! If I explained everything correctly, you should be able to edit the frames individually. I advise just playing around with it, so you can get a feel for the program.
Thank you for reading and I hope I helped!❤️
As soon as I say I wanna start making animatics
I just wanna say you have helper me so much holy crap u and some other yt artists are like the mothers of the next gen of artist. Love u lav, been a fan for 3 years
I just finished reading the comics u made, haley. They r so awesome i cant wait for more!
Another point to add for storyboarder is that it's link to photoshop.
Basically, you have a photoshop icon on the top right corner of the programm and if you click on it, it'll open the frame you're at in photoshop, allowing you to modify/work on it using all of photoshop's tools. Then, once you save in photoshop, storyboarder will automatically update the frame in the timeline and create a photoshop file in your computer. So if you have photoshop storyboarder is an excellent program for animatics.
_Signed an animation student who just finish the first version of her animatic on storyboarder
Me: wants to be an animator
Also me: broke
FlipaClip is free though, you can try that program if you want :D
Laughs in flip books
I do flipbooks and try to do animation on flipaclip Without A stylus pen 👁️👄👁️😩
Same but this is my situation:
Me : wants to upload a animation I did on krita to RUclips
Also me : *I don't know how to upload a video nor know how to use a editing program.*
@@myst1cal_kitty I don't have a youtube channel 😩
Lavender your animatics are breathtaking, I've been doing them for years and yours are just superior- what powers do you possess 😰
Can we appreciate the fact I was watching a animation-
What?-
Every time it showed this animation (12:38 this animation ) it always matched up with what she was saying lel
I use clip studio Paint and it took me so long and watching so many tutorials in slow motion to figure out how to copy and paste a frame and edit it without messing with the original frame. I'm not sure if this is the only or quickest way to do it but, you lasso select everything on your original frame and 'copy and paste' it (there are a few buttons that appear just under the selection, click the one that says copy and paste). You then go to your animation timeline at the bottom and right click the place where you want the new frame to be. A box will come up with some options and on the left side of that box, your frame numbers will be listed. If the original frame you wanted to copy was for example, frame 1 then the new frame will have the name 1a. Click where it says 1a and your new frame will appear on the timeline. You are able to edit this frame, without making changes to the original frame. I hope this helps!! 💜
I didn't even know there was any animatic programs. I have only used fire alpaca and exported each and every frame. Thank you Lavendertowne for making this video
Me: *cries in drawing with fingers on mobile and saving drawings one by one on Ibispaint*
Many anime studios actually use clip studio paint for production, so you know its worth it
Woah i really need this cuz i plan on making an animatic too +_+
For your CSP question: What you can do to duplicate the cel to edit, it is right click your cel in animation folder, click duplicate, and then assign the duplicate cel in the timeline to the desired by right clicking the frame, selecting assign cel, and choosing the new cel :)
Thank you for the vid! I am working on learning some animation stuff in csp
From the future, Clip Studio betrayed us
Yeah fuck the CSP developer salaries right??
somehow i had no idea that there were actually animatic applications. i just started an animatic doing it frame by frame in my current drawing app and i knew it was gonna take forever ^^; this is super helpful!
I love how la blah blah blah has just become known to the Lavender Towne channel. Like I bet they never thought that they would become a super well known member. Or maybe they did idk.
About Clip studios price, they have sales very frequently so you should go on and check!
Can we all just talk about how she draws amazingly on a computer?-
This really helped! I'm looking at getting csp now. I'd already wanted to BC of the brushes, but I wanted something for animatics too. Thanks!!
Me using Windows Movie Maker: 👁👄👁
Hdjdidhfvgh me
How the freak do you even use Windows Movie Maker?!
@@z0mbi3bit3z lotsnof exporting then loading back into the program
Draw every frame in paint, save then click and drag every frame into movie maker, then change the time of every single frame to like idk half a second, yes peak technology 👁👄👁
*How do you even download Windows movie maker??? ( on windows 10)* sorry I'm dumb
I was today years old when I found out that there are actual programs made for making animatics and that people don't just use their animation software and duplicate each frame
There are two ways you can duplicate cels in Clip Studio Paint, with one being direct and the other being more roundabout. Here are two videos that give a concise overview of it, so I'll link them below.
The direct method (using vector layers): ruclips.net/video/lXe2TYiTR5M/видео.html
The roundabout method (using raster layers) : ruclips.net/video/cizV4fR2FsI/видео.html
I’m planning on making my first ever anamatic for a school project so this is just what I needed
Speaking of animating,
I was just making an animation just now lol
Honestly I’ve always drawn frame by frame and then put it into windows movie maker,,,, These programs were really helpful to look at!
Hello to whoever may be scrolling in the comments!!! I hope u have a good day/night/whatever time it is rn!!!
Thank you. I appreciate this a bunch. 😊
You can copy cels in CSP by doing this (if this is what you meant) 1. Ctrl + C Ctrl + V while selecting the cel you want.
2. Once copy is made go to your timeline.
3. Click specify cels.
4. Select the name of the cel you want to add into the timeline.
5. Click ok and it should work (I'm not using CSP right now so idk if that is exactly right)
Idk if anyone will see this but if you do I hope this helps.
Edit: also make sure you have the red thingy on the timeline (idk what it's called) in front of the previous cel. The cel will go to wherever you have selected with that
Ik you wont see this but your videos make me so happy and they’ve gotten thru a lot. Tysm for being an amazing person
I just wanna say I love your art so much and I have made my drawing style based of yours :)
Hi everyone, hope you're having an amazing day c:
Aw u too
Haha nope.
Another big note about Clip Studio Paint, is that they have sales ALL the bloody time, so you'll more than likely catch the EX version for a great sale
This is super helpful!!! although that chromatic aberration made my head ache, ow T__T
This was a really neat video, but looking at the 3D ish exports of the actual animatics you made gave me a headache haha
Lavender town should do
Making animation or animatic program as cute girls
Thank you so much for this! I personally, whenever I actually have the energy for animatics, use Procreate and then export all the frames to Windows Video Editor because it's the only one I know how to even remotely use. It's a bit difficult and time-consuming, but both of the programs are still easy to use and so I wouldn't complain too much about it personally.
Valid point, but I raise you this:
*F l i p a c l i p*
I don't know if the duplicating cells question was answered already but I do it like this:
Either ctrl+c ctrl+v, or right click on the cell you want to duplicate and click duplicate layer/cell. Then you have the duplicate you can mess with you just need to assign the cell to the frame you want it to be on on your timeline. Probably want to rename it as well for easier identification.
Assigning cells is easy as well. On the timeline, near the new cell and new folder button, there is a button with a chain on it. Click that while on the frame you want the cell to be on. Select the cell you need from the list and done.
I actually had to animate something for my RUclips channel lol
2 tips for coping and pasting on csp (I'm sure there are better ways but these just work for me). Make a frame, copy and paste a frame under it and rename it to the same as the cell (the you can delete the original). Or the less tedious, make a cell and click create folder and insert layer, that will make the cell a folder, other cells will also become folders, go in the folder and copy the layer (or just copy the folder) and you can paste it into the other folders. Bonus of the folders is that the layers inside will be normal layers, meaning you can add many layers and it will count as that one cell. Sorry for the long comment, I just thought it might be useful.
I want to start with the most feature full, aka the most expensive
Me: skips to the end of the video
I've been too scared to try out Clip Studio's animatic abilities till now, so thank you!