I wish I'd had more time to demonstrate this in the video, but I was a bit rushed. I recorded and edited it all last night, which is a first for me. It's pretty simple to use though. And yes, it is huge. I'm so pleased Jeremy add that in before he left.
I haven't made animation for a long time, now the latest version is out. The new features are very helpful in solving problems that often occur when I create animations, especially the segment erase and gap fill features. in this video explains well and clearly, easy for me to understand. thank you for making this video, I immediately want to continue making animation in Tahoma2D v1.2 version.
You're welcome. I'm pleased it helped. Yes, Tahoma2D is excellent for animation. When you get started again, you'll have to call over to my Discord and share what you've made 😃
The segment erase is so much better in Smart Raster than in Vector levels. It makes me want to use it more. When I was editing, I saw lots of lines that I could have drawn with more of a swoop, then used the segment erase to erase the overhang, but it's something I'll need to get used to, now the feature is here.
Thank you Mixchief (great name btw) The program was named after a Moose that the family of the original developer grew to like at his local zoo, who unfortunately passed away. That's why there's a mouse in the logo with a halo. And more prominently shown on the release image for the program, on the site. And that's why I included him in my thumbnail today 🙂
@@DarrenTAnims I tested omg. Was this available at vector levels previously? I remember feeling sorry why this feature is missing. (I've seen it in toonboom.)
@@erayzesen361 I think it was new in Tahoma 1.1 and only available in OpenToonz in the new 1.5. It doesn't quite work as well. It works great for lines crossing other lines, but not for lines touching other lines. But in Smart Raster, it works great for both. I love it. I'll be using that a lot once I get into the habit :-)
@@DarrenTAnims I tried it in Smart Raster level, it works really well. It looks fine and sufficient at the vector level as well. At the vector level, the most important problem was that each shape could not have a separate gap setting. The gap setting you make is applied to the entire level. This also reduced filling comfort, you had to consider similar gap for all shapes. I don't know if there is a demand for this but it was the biggest disadvantage in the vector level. The segment erase feature in Smart Raster level is great.
hello, I love your videos and I just downloaded Tahoma 2D. Could you make a complete tutorial for its use to make stop motion? For example I can not see the preview of my photo in transparency on a reference video ... Thank you and keep it up
Thank you. Yes, this had been on my list to make for a while. I'll try to bump it up. Regarding transparency, as I recall, you can change it in the stop motion panel.
Please can you let me know how to draw a cube and rotate it along all axis to show all the 6 sides of cube in 2D animation. It would be really helpful if you make a video on the same. Thanks.
That's an interesting question. There's not a built in, technical, way to do this. So I think you've got 2 choices here: 1. Use the auto-inbetween tool on a vector level to manipulate your lines. 2. Or hand draw them, which would give you a more realistic pacing of the rotation. And you'd work pose to pose for that; just adding more inbetweens to get the timing you're after. Can you share a video showing the rotation that you're after? I'm picturing a cube sitting on a table top spinning. With that, you won't get to see all 6 sides.
@@KVbladers It seems that you can't share links. I've received some links before, so I'd have thought it would be ok to send it. If you try again, but add some spaces and remove the http and www from it. Or send the link to me on my Discord.
Hi Darren. As usual all your tutorials are great. I have a carboard cutout character which I use for stop motion.. When I capture this with Tahoma I find that the drawing tools are inactive and I can't clean up the image as I would like (knee joints, hands etc. ) What can I do about this). Also, how does one import from a scanner?
Thanks Robert. I don't believe you can draw directly onto the image taken from your camera. There could be a way round this and I'll ask the developer if there is. However, you can add a drawing level on a column in front of your character and draw on that. I did something similar to make a lego figure talk, with the mouth shapes on a separate level.
Regarding importing from a scanner, you can use the GTS software to help (I've not used this myself). There's details about using it, in the online manual: opentoonz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scanning_paper_drawings.html Or you can use your own scanning software to scan to an image (jpeg) and drag/drop that into Tahoma. If you scan a sequence of images, then be sure to follow the naming guidelines (name.0001.png, etc). You can see more details about naming of image sequences in my video about image sequences.
Hi, Great videos, I'm a newbie to this application, I work with vector graphics and I want to start playing around with 2d Animation, should I download the official or Nightly build ? Can I also ask does Tahoma allow imports of vector formats like SVG or is mainly bitmap Thanks
I'd suggest downloading the nightly build. The official version is from around 6 months ago, so is quite out of date. It's due to be updated in about 4 weeks, so keep your eyes open for that. Yes you can import svg, but not all of the svg features are imported. It can work for simple graphics, but struggles for more complex drawings. So you're better to experiment first, before you rely on using svgs.
You can create a scene with a number of layers and animation keys, with timing of the drawings. And then import this into other scenes, so you have the same animation clips re-used.
How can I color layers individually? If I color one layer, then the lower layer is automatically colored as well. Or is it possible to move layers down or up?
You do colour levels individually; one at a time. Yes you can move the columns (layers) up and down (forwards and backwards in the stacking order). If you click and drag the darker bar that's in the column header, you can change their order.
I have the 1.1 version is it the same as the 1.2 (the features and stuff that 1.2 have my computer won't let me download the new version which sucks TwT)
I've drawn two objects at Vector level and Created Mesh for the same. Once Mesh is created, I couldn't select those vector object for making few changes to those object drawings. Please can you let me know how it can be done after Creating Mesh. Thanks.
In Vector level, please can you let me know how I can draw 2 rectangles and each one of them should have different color. In Raster level, I can select individual rectangle and fill the color but in Vector level if I select color, the same color is automatically filled for both rectangles. Please can you let me know how to fill different rectangle for each object drawn in Vector level. Thanks.
I've tried the drawings in Smart Raster Level, but when I erase it as like how you did in this video but my pen drawing is getting erased and pencil drawing remains in the drawing. Please let me know how to fix it.
@@DarrenTAnims Please check this video and let me know what I missed in it.Thanks. drive.google.com/file/d/1kr4pviCxygQSMENjFbB-LNF0PRXVCI0D/view?usp=sharing
@@Vaishnav.r I've just watched the video. That was helpful to see. In it you've ticked the Selective mode, which means that erasing will only erase the selected palette entry. However, you'd still got your red palette entry selected. If you'd selected your pencil entry, it would have deleted only that. However, I kinda wished I didn't draw my ink lines on the same level as my sketch. I don't normally do this because sometimes erasing deletes parts of the overlapping anti-aliased parts of the lines, so I'd recommend using different levels when you can.
Most of the features in this video plus others, including: Brush additions for drawing straight lines, including perspective lines (my favourite feature) A simpler initial design More stop motion features Built in ffmpeg, so you can render to more outputs without seeing up a 3rd party library. And others
It does download as a zip. You might have VLC as the default program to open zips for some reason, but it is a zip. What file extension does it show? If you're on windows, you can right click and choose to extract it. Don't double click it or it'll open whichever program you've registered for zip files, which sounds like vlc for some reason.
The only way Windows knows which program to open a file with is by the file extensions (which are hidden by default in Windows - you can unhide them through the View menu at the top). If your Windows is somehow set to open .zip files with VLC, it will appear to be a VLC file. As Darren says you can right-click to manually select extract, and if you go to properties then you can choose which program you want to open .zip files with (if you choose File Explorer you'll go back to being able to just double-click .zip files to open them).
@@F.O.G_Music If you can join my Discord and share more details, someone there could help you. But the first suggestion is always to update your graphics card driver as that can cause many problems.
@@ronharleypantaleon1824 No it doesn't, but it's not to hard to add. I've got a video showing how to set it up on Windows : ruclips.net/video/XkAR9GtEUKU/видео.html
It's a fork of OpenToonz code, so has all of the features of OpenToonz. And the new OpenToonz features and bug fixes are imported to Tahoma as they are added. But as a fork, there are extra features added to Tahoma that aren't in OpenToonz. Some may later be copied to OpenToonz, but others not.
@@DarrenTAnims is there any keyboard key using which i can duplicate last drawing, its very hard for me to draw every frame or copying drawing and pasting that, i want a way by which if i add a frame the drawing should be previous using a keyboard key !! Help
@@3dhacker975 Yes, D. If you right click on the next frame after a drawing, you'll see the Duplicate option. It doesn't work in all circumstances. You have to either be in a empty frame directly after a drawing or in an extended frame.
This is a common question I see. And the best answer I can give is to try them both out and see which you are most comfortable using. I use both, but personally, Tahoma has a few extra features that I find so useful, that I prefer using it most of the time.
![Seungmin "그렇게, 천천히, 우리(As we are)" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAzmhLHePqU/mqdefault.jpg)
Waow : I read "incorporate rhubarb lip Sync" ? That's huge!
I wish I'd had more time to demonstrate this in the video, but I was a bit rushed. I recorded and edited it all last night, which is a first for me. It's pretty simple to use though. And yes, it is huge. I'm so pleased Jeremy add that in before he left.
@@DarrenTAnims we are waiting for toturial about it!!! 😄
@@drthumper2048 😆
I haven't made animation for a long time, now the latest version is out.
The new features are very helpful in solving problems that often occur when I create animations, especially the segment erase and gap fill features.
in this video explains well and clearly, easy for me to understand.
thank you for making this video, I immediately want to continue making animation in Tahoma2D v1.2 version.
You're welcome. I'm pleased it helped. Yes, Tahoma2D is excellent for animation. When you get started again, you'll have to call over to my Discord and share what you've made 😃
Segment erase is really cool feature, I'll check this on vector levels because i'm mostly making line art on it. Anyway thank you for great video.
Great. Let me know how you find it. It works really well when lines are overlapping, but not so well when they're just touching.
I suppose now we can all tween our own paths in life.
😀 So long as we take each frame one step at a time.
@@DarrenTAnims lol
Hmm, it was news to me that the Segment Eraser works in Smart Raster. I missed a lot.
The segment erase is so much better in Smart Raster than in Vector levels. It makes me want to use it more. When I was editing, I saw lots of lines that I could have drawn with more of a swoop, then used the segment erase to erase the overhang, but it's something I'll need to get used to, now the feature is here.
I am impressed I will use these good features now
Hey Golden Slime.
There really are a lot of new features in this release. I was really impressed with them all.
Thanks for making a video on it😁
Glad it helped :-)
Love your channel, Darren. Tahoma sure is looking great. By the way, what does Tahoma mean or what’s the etymology of that word/name, you think?
Thank you Mixchief (great name btw)
The program was named after a Moose that the family of the original developer grew to like at his local zoo, who unfortunately passed away.
That's why there's a mouse in the logo with a halo. And more prominently shown on the release image for the program, on the site. And that's why I included him in my thumbnail today 🙂
I would like the segment erase function in vector level as well.
It is in the vector levels :-)
But it's much, much better in Smart Raster levels.
@@DarrenTAnims I tested omg. Was this available at vector levels previously? I remember feeling sorry why this feature is missing. (I've seen it in toonboom.)
@@erayzesen361 I think it was new in Tahoma 1.1 and only available in OpenToonz in the new 1.5. It doesn't quite work as well. It works great for lines crossing other lines, but not for lines touching other lines. But in Smart Raster, it works great for both. I love it. I'll be using that a lot once I get into the habit :-)
@@DarrenTAnims I tried it in Smart Raster level, it works really well. It looks fine and sufficient at the vector level as well.
At the vector level, the most important problem was that each shape could not have a separate gap setting. The gap setting you make is applied to the entire level. This also reduced filling comfort, you had to consider similar gap for all shapes. I don't know if there is a demand for this but it was the biggest disadvantage in the vector level.
The segment erase feature in Smart Raster level is great.
hello, I love your videos and I just downloaded Tahoma 2D. Could you make a complete tutorial for its use to make stop motion? For example I can not see the preview of my photo in transparency on a reference video ... Thank you and keep it up
Thank you.
Yes, this had been on my list to make for a while. I'll try to bump it up.
Regarding transparency, as I recall, you can change it in the stop motion panel.
@@DarrenTAnims
Thank you. I'm too impatient
😁
Please can you let me know how to draw a cube and rotate it along all axis to show all the 6 sides of cube in 2D animation. It would be really helpful if you make a video on the same. Thanks.
That's an interesting question. There's not a built in, technical, way to do this. So I think you've got 2 choices here:
1. Use the auto-inbetween tool on a vector level to manipulate your lines.
2. Or hand draw them, which would give you a more realistic pacing of the rotation. And you'd work pose to pose for that; just adding more inbetweens to get the timing you're after.
Can you share a video showing the rotation that you're after? I'm picturing a cube sitting on a table top spinning. With that, you won't get to see all 6 sides.
@@DarrenTAnims My comment got deleted. Hope you should have got the link which I shared. Thanks.
@@KVbladers It seems that you can't share links. I've received some links before, so I'd have thought it would be ok to send it.
If you try again, but add some spaces and remove the http and www from it. Or send the link to me on my Discord.
Hi Darren. As usual all your tutorials are great. I have a carboard cutout character which I use for stop motion.. When I capture this with Tahoma I find that the drawing tools are inactive and I can't clean up the image as I would like (knee joints, hands etc. ) What can I do about this). Also, how does one import from a scanner?
Thanks Robert.
I don't believe you can draw directly onto the image taken from your camera. There could be a way round this and I'll ask the developer if there is.
However, you can add a drawing level on a column in front of your character and draw on that. I did something similar to make a lego figure talk, with the mouth shapes on a separate level.
Regarding importing from a scanner, you can use the GTS software to help (I've not used this myself). There's details about using it, in the online manual: opentoonz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scanning_paper_drawings.html
Or you can use your own scanning software to scan to an image (jpeg) and drag/drop that into Tahoma. If you scan a sequence of images, then be sure to follow the naming guidelines (name.0001.png, etc). You can see more details about naming of image sequences in my video about image sequences.
Hi,
Great videos, I'm a newbie to this application, I work with vector graphics and I want to start playing around with 2d Animation, should I download the official or Nightly build ?
Can I also ask does Tahoma allow imports of vector formats like SVG or is mainly bitmap
Thanks
I'd suggest downloading the nightly build. The official version is from around 6 months ago, so is quite out of date. It's due to be updated in about 4 weeks, so keep your eyes open for that.
Yes you can import svg, but not all of the svg features are imported. It can work for simple graphics, but struggles for more complex drawings. So you're better to experiment first, before you rely on using svgs.
That's great, Many Thanks Darren
Will Tahoma2d have some features similar to Adobe animate like the symbol tool in the future??🥺🙏
It already does!
The subscenes work like symbols.
@@DarrenTAnims how so? 🤨🤔
You can create a scene with a number of layers and animation keys, with timing of the drawings. And then import this into other scenes, so you have the same animation clips re-used.
@@DarrenTAnims ok. I just don't want to use the bones for rigging but I have to when I tried.
Or you can collapse a number of layer (columns) into a subscene and then reuse those frames in your scene multiple times.
Now that's a Darren T☺️😁
😁
How can I color layers individually? If I color one layer, then the lower layer is automatically colored as well.
Or is it possible to move layers down or up?
You do colour levels individually; one at a time.
Yes you can move the columns (layers) up and down (forwards and backwards in the stacking order). If you click and drag the darker bar that's in the column header, you can change their order.
@@DarrenTAnims thanks for the help :)
I have the 1.1 version is it the same as the 1.2 (the features and stuff that 1.2 have my computer won't let me download the new version which sucks TwT)
1.2 has extra features and bug fixes. If you can upgrade to it from 1.1 that would benefit you.
I've drawn two objects at Vector level and Created Mesh for the same. Once Mesh is created, I couldn't select those vector object for making few changes to those object drawings. Please can you let me know how it can be done after Creating Mesh. Thanks.
Ignore it. I've got idea of checking your video on the same. Thanks.
:-)
In Vector level, please can you let me know how I can draw 2 rectangles and each one of them should have different color. In Raster level, I can select individual rectangle and fill the color but in Vector level if I select color, the same color is automatically filled for both rectangles.
Please can you let me know how to fill different rectangle for each object drawn in Vector level. Thanks.
When you want to use different colours on a vector or smart raster level, you have to create a new palette entry in your palette list.
@@DarrenTAnims Thanks, it is working fine.
Gonna need to update my t2d install. It's workable, but those new features look too good not to have. Wish Tahoma had an autoupdater.
They are good. It's worth an update, I think 🙂
it crashed what do i do
I've no idea what to say. Sometimes it crashes, but not often.
I've tried the drawings in Smart Raster Level, but when I erase it as like how you did in this video but my pen drawing is getting erased and pencil drawing remains in the drawing. Please let me know how to fix it.
Without seeing a screenshot of your options bar, I can't really help. The problem will be because of a setting there.
@@DarrenTAnims Thanks for your reply.I'll make a video of how am doing it and share it to you shortly.
@@Vaishnav.r Yes. Please do
@@DarrenTAnims Please check this video and let me know what I missed in it.Thanks.
drive.google.com/file/d/1kr4pviCxygQSMENjFbB-LNF0PRXVCI0D/view?usp=sharing
@@Vaishnav.r I've just watched the video. That was helpful to see. In it you've ticked the Selective mode, which means that erasing will only erase the selected palette entry. However, you'd still got your red palette entry selected. If you'd selected your pencil entry, it would have deleted only that.
However, I kinda wished I didn't draw my ink lines on the same level as my sketch. I don't normally do this because sometimes erasing deletes parts of the overlapping anti-aliased parts of the lines, so I'd recommend using different levels when you can.
What features does Tahoma have that opentoonz doesnt have?
Most of the features in this video plus others, including:
Brush additions for drawing straight lines, including perspective lines (my favourite feature)
A simpler initial design
More stop motion features
Built in ffmpeg, so you can render to more outputs without seeing up a 3rd party library.
And others
Thanks 💜
You're welcome 😊
Thanks Darren
:-) Cheers
Yup. I got super spooked when I first downloaded this and saw ROOT after bypassing the Windows warning. Thank you so much for this video!
I'm glad it helped
hey man l need some help. So everytime l download this file, it downloads as a VLC file instead. how do l fix this so that it downloads as a zip??
It does download as a zip. You might have VLC as the default program to open zips for some reason, but it is a zip. What file extension does it show?
If you're on windows, you can right click and choose to extract it. Don't double click it or it'll open whichever program you've registered for zip files, which sounds like vlc for some reason.
The only way Windows knows which program to open a file with is by the file extensions (which are hidden by default in Windows - you can unhide them through the View menu at the top). If your Windows is somehow set to open .zip files with VLC, it will appear to be a VLC file. As Darren says you can right-click to manually select extract, and if you go to properties then you can choose which program you want to open .zip files with (if you choose File Explorer you'll go back to being able to just double-click .zip files to open them).
Every time i save a scene i get a critical error saying it couldn't save the scene, is it a bug or am i doing something wrong?
It shouldn't be anything that you did. But I'd need to see more details to be able to hazard a guess.
@@DarrenTAnims I literally just downloaded it yesterday and followed this video but when I click save scene I get the error
@@F.O.G_Music If you can join my Discord and share more details, someone there could help you. But the first suggestion is always to update your graphics card driver as that can cause many problems.
@@DarrenTAnims Yeah my exact thoughts as well probably my pc specs, Thank you!
i can't install it on linux :'(
I've never worked with Linux, so can't offer any help, but I know some users on my Discord have experience with it, if you want to ask there.
is this a tutorial or a review?
It's both :-)
@@DarrenTAnims ok nice
Will papagayo work with this?
Yes. The data file from Papagayo will load into Tahoma 🙂
How to resize in tahoma?
To resize your drawings, you can use the Canvas Size command. You can see it in use here: ruclips.net/video/ckJVY8jziWo/видео.html
@@DarrenTAnims last question sir, does the new opentoonz already have built-in mmfpeg? thank you for responding.
@@ronharleypantaleon1824 No it doesn't, but it's not to hard to add. I've got a video showing how to set it up on Windows : ruclips.net/video/XkAR9GtEUKU/видео.html
@@DarrenTAnims thank you sir.
sir, can i just delete the opentoonz set-up after installing the application?
Its similar to *Opentoonz* , isn't?
It's a fork of OpenToonz code, so has all of the features of OpenToonz. And the new OpenToonz features and bug fixes are imported to Tahoma as they are added. But as a fork, there are extra features added to Tahoma that aren't in OpenToonz. Some may later be copied to OpenToonz, but others not.
@@DarrenTAnims is there any keyboard key using which i can duplicate last drawing, its very hard for me to draw every frame or copying drawing and pasting that, i want a way by which if i add a frame the drawing should be previous using a keyboard key !! Help
@@3dhacker975 Yes, D. If you right click on the next frame after a drawing, you'll see the Duplicate option.
It doesn't work in all circumstances. You have to either be in a empty frame directly after a drawing or in an extended frame.
@@DarrenTAnims thank you, you are the bestttt !!
Do think Tahoma2D is better than Open Toonz?
This is a common question I see. And the best answer I can give is to try them both out and see which you are most comfortable using.
I use both, but personally, Tahoma has a few extra features that I find so useful, that I prefer using it most of the time.
need skelental animation
You can do cut out animation in both OpenToonz and Tahoma. I've got a playlist showing how to get started with it.