just happened upon this, but looked so interesting, I had to watch. I grew up working with pastels as a child and teenager, so this really intrigued me...AND I actually learned a lot and can hopefully broaden my creativity. Thanks a lot, sincerely.
+LifeOfBrian Great to hear! This was the first pastel I drew in twenty years. I have been drawing digital for so long, but nothing beats working on paper. You only get very dirty fingers and hands! But there is something wonderful about working with pastels.
En la animación final se pueden ver los hermosos dibujos usados, dibujos al pastel con la técnica tradicional, magníficos. Muchas gracias por mostrar la técnica.
Have fun with Anime Studio aka Moho! You can do great animations with it. Check out my other videos about Anime Studio here: ruclips.net/p/PLN-kPOo3iKJNSbFY7dzw5JB6Gs8UbQz45
Thanks ***** I have ArtRage for iPad. It is a great app to draw and paint in. I usually draw everything Digital. I have been doing that for 15 years using a Wacom Cintiq and Photoshop and Flash. A lot of my backgrounds I paint in Procreate for iPad. Since I started this RUclips channel I started drawing on paper again. To my opinion if you want to achieve a natural media look do it in the traditional way. It is another kind of process. For my work I have to make animations of traditional artwork of Children's Books. All of them are done on paper. This video tutorial is just a little explanation of staying true to the style of the original illustration without using too much digital effects. I am now going to mix traditional and digital into my work even more.
+Stayf Draws Have you tried with Corel Painter?. Last day I painted a bit with the simulation of crayons and some pencils making an illustration like if it was made physically and traditionally (like you do in this video). This could save you a lot of time. Let me see if I can attatch here by some part.. :)
+Stayf Draws Regarding to iPad, I think that iPad although has one of the best technology for digital styluses/pens , lacks of professional software which allows you to come and comeback from your iPad to your desktop MAC or PC. This is what, in my opinion, prevents to call this tablet "Pro". A windows 10 tablet (Surface Pro 4 and 3) yes they can be called "Pro". If Apple doesn't install the OSx (instead of its good OS iOS) and equip their iPads with the sixth Intel's processors m class (m3, m5 and m7) for boost their tablets instead of hteir ARM processors they will loose the fight against the every time more numerous Windows tablets. Thsi is why I still haven't bought a tablet waiting for a lower price for the Surface Pro 4 if HP with their Pavilion don't leave clear which stylus works well on them (HP Pavilion X2 12 has 8GB and better connectivity compared with the surface Pro4). .
I have been using Corel Paint in the past, but it was lacking in speed. Especially when you are using the watercolors. The latency is terrible. For digital painting I use Photoshop a lot and Clip Studio Paint. I draw and animate on a Wacom Cintiq and that is a professional tool to work with. But I really like to draw and paint in Procreate, which is the best painting app for iPad. I even prefer it to working on my Mac in Photoshop. The main reason is that the iPad Pro is much lighter and you can just paint while you are sitting on the coach. The interface of Procreate is very hands on and let's you concentrate more on the painting and drawing.I think the Apple Pencil is more accurate than the Wacom Pen that comes with my Cintiq. It really is a shame that you can only work in iOs and not in OSx. There is an app called Astropad where you can mirror your iPad and use it to draw on your Mac. But you need a very fast Mac to avoid latency. I never worked on a Surface Pro, but it looks like a real good product as well.
Yes!. I thought that with iPad Pro would means one of two: a).-They have included the same Operating system than in our desktop computers. b).-Big companies like Adobe, Corel or Smith Micro would create a full compatible version of their applications in iOS. But anything of these two points and this was really disappointing for me. Only (I have to admit) a super-incredible stylus: the Appel Pencil. With my i7 processor and my Quadro 620K graphics card I can paint without any lag in my PC. And After giving a try to a Surface Pro 4 , I think that I will by it. The super comfortable experience of painting wherever you want (and need) and take with you all your 2D work it's one of the best things in this world. Sometimes I feel the needing of painting and I can't because I am not at home with my PC...With a surface, I can start a project in ClipStudio or Photoshop, and continue it in my Desktop PC and comeback again with my tablet and come and continue in my PC and viceversa till the end of the artwork. iPad Pro can't allow you that. And Apple is loosing the battle even when they invented this gadget and they have the best quality product. I am a former user of Procreate and believe me, it's an amazing program, the best tablet oriented painting program I've ever used for any Operating System. It's a pleasure to interchange opinions and reviews with you, from this with passionates us. :)
You got some good points there José! We are always looking for the best tools to work with. If it is on paper or digital. In the end they are just tools to master your drawings and paintings. I just switch between working on my Mac, on my iPad and occasionally on paper.
Rick Evertsz Thanks for the compliment Rick! There are so many ways of using ASP. I just like to mix it up with real media. It gives a different kind of look you can't achieve digitally. Are you working with ASP?
Stayf Draws I toy around with it. I was attracted by the bone animation. I probably fire it up once or twice a year, and have been upgrading to each new version since v8. Not the best way to spend my money, but I have fun with it for a week or two before moving on. Hoping to have free time to do something substantial one day, but it just hasn't happened so far :)
Thanks a lot for this! This tutorial was surprisingly very helpful and helped me figure out how to animate a series I'm planning to get that illustration motion style! Thanks again!
thank you Stayf. Excellent tutorial. I'm very interested in more tutorials animating paintings and drawings in anime Studio because I am making animations from picturebook illustrations. Many thanks for your generous work.
+Cynthia Nugent Thanks for the compliment Cynthia! I have made another video about animating Children's Book illustrations and you can see it here: ruclips.net/video/aT-sgcMAmPk/видео.html I hope that will be usefull. I will be making more videos about animating in Anime Studio. A new one is coming up soon so stay tuned!
Thanks Nikolaj, I will do a new video about animating a single illustraion in Moho soon. You can also check out my Anime Studio/Moho Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLN-kPOo3iKJNSbFY7dzw5JB6Gs8UbQz45
Wow Now that is really good tutorial. I am biggener at animation and start with moho. It seemed looking at white boring board full with icons and tabs. My mind stopped. You should make a complete course for animation with moho from scratch. Please think about that. Each course I bought in moho was missing lots of consept or difficult to follow. When I find your chanel it was like a safe from drowning. I also bought your tutorial on vemo (Animate 2D with live_ action. You make everything seems easy. Thanks a lot.
Hey Stayf, well done. I really enjoyed your finished result. I also wanted to point you towards a little art program called Art Rage. It can emulate painting with oils, water color, pen and ink, pencil, etc .... But you might really be interested in it's chalk and crayon painting tools which look very much like pastel. You can even pick the type and roughness of the digital paper you're drawing on. It's only like $49 US, then another $100 for a wacom pen tablet. But it would save you SO MUCH time converting your artwork to digital. Plus, you could also create your illustrations in layers, then save them out as a PSD file, which could them be imported into Anime Studio pro. Check it out, and take care :)
dude you are super talented but your tutorials are hard to follow when you use hotkeys without tellings us because most new3 people are listening and watching your mouse clicks. but thankyou keep up the great videos
This is very cool. I'm wanting to do an animated video using water colors and I'm thinking I can use a similar technique. However, it looks fairly time consuming. I could see a five minute animation taking several months to complete. I was curious if it would be faster to draw the deer on green paper and chroma key or color select it out versus do the hand selection process.
You can draw it green coloured paper, but then this will shine through when you paint with watercolour. You want to preserve the edges of water-colors and pastels. That makes it unique. If you have a character you want to animate it is best to make a setup from your character from all angles. With a set of arms, legs and a variety of hand poses. I have made another video about setting up a character in Anime Studio and Moho and you can find it here: ruclips.net/video/aYQIPLNzvwc/видео.html
Hi there Stayf! Great tutorial using pastel and animate it with Anime Studio Pro 11! I'm new to this animation thingy; but I begin to love it so much! With bones and anything! Looking forward to see your other tutorials! (Oh, did you use After Effects as well for final composition?)
I'm looking to paint isometric models by importing them into an advanced painting software. Is there one you could recommend that isn't as expensive as Photoshop, preferably one I purchase a perpetual license.
Thank you for sharing your expertise in your well done videos! Ever since seeing what effects can be done using the Pin Tool in Adobe's After Effects, I've been mesmerized by the organic feel that it has. But, with Adobe's choice to "rent" their cloud-ware, I'm finding it to be cost prohibitive in the long run. My quest continues for the search of the perfect tool. I have been attempting to do this technique of animation (and cut-out animation) in Blender, the results so far have been encouraging, but I am feeling that AnimateStudioPro's workflow and tools would make this process easier... at least you make it look to be so easy! Please do some more videos using AnimationStudioPro. Would you also share what kinds of projects that you're applying these animations to? Thanks again, Stayf... Doodles!
William Rose Hello William, Thanks for the compliment. I have been working with Anime Studio for a long time doing animations of Children's book and Children's Books apps. One app is called Timo and the Magic Picture Book and is available for iPad. Here is a little preview ruclips.net/video/maT946oCQjg/видео.html Here are some other samples of Children's Book adaptation done with ASP: vimeo.com/50002766 I also make all my animations for the RUclips channel LikeZOO! All of the animations are done in Anime Studio Pro: ruclips.net/user/ProfAntonMole I will do more tutorials on working in Anime Studio soon. Starting out with ASP is hard in the beginning but fortunately Smith Micro has a great forum and community and the software has regular updates and great support. There is a great community forum where you can find great tutorials as well: www.lostmarble.com/forum/
On frame zero select the top layer and then go to the adjustment menu on top of your screen. You can see it at 8:42 when I change the numbers behind the Z. Z is the depth of your layers. Make your background layer on 0 and the Z depth of your character or what is on top of it a bigger number like 0.2 or 0.4. Then double click on your layer and select Allow animated layer effect. Then your depth of field should work with your camera.
Great stuff! Easy listening with lots of info to learn from while referencing the features of Anime Studio. One question. Since I use other drawing programs, will it be much harder without Photoshop? ie. scene updates, importing.
+Les Henderson Thanks Les! If you can export your layered file to a PSD- file you can import it into Anime Studio. Otherwise you have to export all your layers as PNG's with Alpha channel. Most programs have scripts for it to batch export.
+Stayf Draws Of course. Being able to convert to the right file format is just as good as having the program as long as you're not dealing with some integrated plugin. Even then you should be able to do it manually. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks for your tutorial. I have to visit your channel. I would like to make traditional animation, frame by frame. And I'm going to try Clip Studio to see the new area of animation, to see how it works.
+José Ramírez Thanks José! I haven't updated to Clip Studio yet. I love the drawing tools in Clip Studio, so I am definitely going to check out the new version and will do a review about it. Have you done any animation I can see somewhere? I would love to see some!
+Stayf Draws I need to first, see your animations and learn some things from you and then make some tryings. But what I would like is combine frame by frame animation and bones animation when possible.
My advice it to just start and doing some animations. That is what I do all the time! Just explore and make a lot of mistakes. Because you learn more from your mistakes than from doing everything right in one go!
So you have to have layers for the bones menu to work? because for me when i import a picture i have done with only one layer i cant select the bone menu
+eyewishwalrus You first need to create a Bone Layer and after that import your image. Preferably a PNG with no background. Drag the PNG layer onto the Bone layer so that they are linked. Then you can create your bones in Your Bone Layer and the bones will be blinded to your image.
thanks man so do you literally just add a new layer and call it bone layer or is there a special way? i much appreciate your help here from new zealand ;) im having trouble with this journey as a gimp artist already
+eyewishwalrus I will do a video tutorial on how to make your Bone layer. Here is the description: In the layers panel you have options to what layer you want to make it. Select Bone layer and then you will have a Bone Layer.
Can you install Anime Studio Pro 11 into more than one computer? Like, I'll buy it, install it on my laptop, and later install it on a desktop. Is that possible, or do I need to buy another?
Great lesson!!!! Yes, more Moho/PhotoShop would be wonderful!!!! I'm learning how to animate my oil paintings. Do you have any in this animation style of machines--like cars, bulldozers, tractors, etc? Someone did a short animation for me of one of my snowcat machine paintings. I would love to be able to figure out all the stuff she did!!! Thank you very much for the lesson!!!!!
I'm loving your tutorials man! I do have a question about attaching bones to png files. In your video you seem to draw your bones and instantly your image is attached to the bones. I have my png file uploaded, bones drawn, the bones work great, but my image is completely detached from the bones. Any thoughts? Thanks
+Tim Solly Thanks Tim! If you create a bone layer, you need to drag the PNG layer on to the bone layer. Then your PNG file is attached to the Bone and then you can Bind the bones to your PNG file.
Hey man, thank you so much for getting back to me! After plenty of prayer and time spent trying different things I eventually found the reason nothing was sticking to my png file. I had to double-click on each png layer, click on the tab farthest to the right (image), then check the Warp using bone box. Then of course play around with the Bone strength a bit. It's working just fine now. Thank you again for responding and keep up the good work. God bless!
Great tutorial, and i have a doubt. if we want to animate this pastel deer or any other like this painting, is it possible to turn front ? how we do this? is it possible in this type of manual painting? Thank you Sir...
+Sreekumar KP It is not possible to turn it around. You have to make a new painting of the turnaround. You could make a different setup of the deer by breaking it up in parts. Let's say you want the head of the deer to move towards the camera. You could either draw all the inbetween steps on paper and edit them in Photoshop and animate it with a switch layer. Or you could break up all the parts of the face. Like the basic shape of the head, eyes, nose, mouth ears and antlers on separate layers and animate the parts individually.
+Stayf Draws Wow... You are great... Thank you for your quick response. Iam so happy.. Anway your tutorial is fantastic. I have no words to say about the result of this excellent animation and expect more tutorials from you.. Thank you
Weet u toevallig of dit ook mogelijk is met Anime Studio Debut (11)? Want dit ziet er heel mooi uit en ik weet niet of ik Pro of Debut moet downloaden. Alvast bedankt!
+Domino Pippa De video heb ik ook in het Nederlands gemaakt en kan je op mijn Nederlandstalige kanaal Stefan Tekent bekijken: ruclips.net/video/zYrvRQlggho/видео.html
Great tutorial! Maybe instead of erasing, use a mask, much better for corrections, especially those that you notice much later. Does it work with anime Studio? Also shadows etc. coming from Photoshop?
+Frank Thanks for the tip Frank, I don't think Anime Studio will export the masks or other effects. I have to check that. I will let you know. Do you work with Anime Studio?
Fantastic video and great artist but I'm a bit confused I've watched a tutorial before where to animate an imported .PNG file you had to trace the image first. But in this video, he just imports the image and starts adding bones and animating without having to trace. Do you know longer have to trace the image?
+leftyfourguns You don't have to trace your PNG. You just need to have a large size PNG, then when you zoom in with the camera your rendered PNGwon't get pixelated. If you vectorize your PNG you have more option to animate your character with the vector points. What I like about animating original illustrations is the different styles you can work in.
Not too large, otherwise your files will be too big. Just make them as big as you want to zoom them in. If you are working in HD 1920X 1080 I make you characters at least 2100 pixels tall.
Hoi, ik ben een beginneling, met Moho 12 aan de slag (vroeger op Amiga kleine 2d-animaties gemaakt) wil animaties maken opnieuw leren en probeer daarom een animatie te maken van iemands tekeningen. Ik heb net een video van je bekeken, leuk! Ik heb ook getekende dieren in Photoshop, geimporteerd in Moho 12 en nu probeer ik een wat vloeiende beweging met koppies/hoofdjes van links naar rechts te maken (met sequencer), maar dat gaat nog wat schokkerig, heb je wellicht tips? Ik heb de koppies/hoofdjes in 5 verschillende standen, van links, naar midden en naar rechts kijken in verschillende lagen psd opgeslagen. Groet, Miranda Vos
Thank you very much for this. It's refreshing to see some traditional media used with digital tools!
+Shane Bowman Thanks Shane! Are you an animator?
just happened upon this, but looked so interesting, I had to watch. I grew up working with pastels as a child and teenager, so this really intrigued me...AND I actually learned a lot and can hopefully broaden my creativity. Thanks a lot, sincerely.
+LifeOfBrian Great to hear! This was the first pastel I drew in twenty years. I have been drawing digital for so long, but nothing beats working on paper. You only get very dirty fingers and hands! But there is something wonderful about working with pastels.
i trust this man
lol!
En la animación final se pueden ver los hermosos dibujos usados, dibujos al pastel con la técnica tradicional, magníficos.
Muchas gracias por mostrar la técnica.
¡Gracias por el cumplido y de nada!
Just got anime 12 debut and I am learning from scratch.Thank you for your video! I didnt know you can import a drawing and animate it.
Have fun with Anime Studio aka Moho! You can do great animations with it. Check out my other videos about Anime Studio here: ruclips.net/p/PLN-kPOo3iKJNSbFY7dzw5JB6Gs8UbQz45
Thanks ***** I have ArtRage for iPad. It is a great app to draw and paint in. I usually draw everything Digital. I have been doing that for 15 years using a Wacom Cintiq and Photoshop and Flash. A lot of my backgrounds I paint in Procreate for iPad. Since I started this RUclips channel I started drawing on paper again. To my opinion if you want to achieve a natural media look do it in the traditional way. It is another kind of process. For my work I have to make animations of traditional artwork of Children's Books. All of them are done on paper. This video tutorial is just a little explanation of staying true to the style of the original illustration without using too much digital effects. I am now going to mix traditional and digital into my work even more.
+Stayf Draws Have you tried with Corel Painter?. Last day I painted a bit with the simulation of crayons and some pencils making an illustration like if it was made physically and traditionally (like you do in this video). This could save you a lot of time. Let me see if I can attatch here by some part.. :)
+Stayf Draws Regarding to iPad, I think that iPad although has one of the best technology for digital styluses/pens , lacks of professional software which allows you to come and comeback from your iPad to your desktop MAC or PC. This is what, in my opinion, prevents to call this tablet "Pro". A windows 10 tablet (Surface Pro 4 and 3) yes they can be called "Pro". If Apple doesn't install the OSx (instead of its good OS iOS) and equip their iPads with the sixth Intel's processors m class (m3, m5 and m7) for boost their tablets instead of hteir ARM processors they will loose the fight against the every time more numerous Windows tablets. Thsi is why I still haven't bought a tablet waiting for a lower price for the Surface Pro 4 if HP with their Pavilion don't leave clear which stylus works well on them (HP Pavilion X2 12 has 8GB and better connectivity compared with the surface Pro4).
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I have been using Corel Paint in the past, but it was lacking in speed. Especially when you are using the watercolors. The latency is terrible. For digital painting I use Photoshop a lot and Clip Studio Paint. I draw and animate on a Wacom Cintiq and that is a professional tool to work with. But I really like to draw and paint in Procreate, which is the best painting app for iPad. I even prefer it to working on my Mac in Photoshop. The main reason is that the iPad Pro is much lighter and you can just paint while you are sitting on the coach. The interface of Procreate is very hands on and let's you concentrate more on the painting and drawing.I think the Apple Pencil is more accurate than the Wacom Pen that comes with my Cintiq. It really is a shame that you can only work in iOs and not in OSx. There is an app called Astropad where you can mirror your iPad and use it to draw on your Mac. But you need a very fast Mac to avoid latency. I never worked on a Surface Pro, but it looks like a real good product as well.
Yes!.
I thought that with iPad Pro would means one of two:
a).-They have included the same Operating system than in our desktop computers.
b).-Big companies like Adobe, Corel or Smith Micro would create a full compatible version of their applications in iOS.
But anything of these two points and this was really disappointing for me. Only (I have to admit) a super-incredible stylus: the Appel Pencil.
With my i7 processor and my Quadro 620K graphics card I can paint without any lag in my PC.
And After giving a try to a Surface Pro 4 , I think that I will by it. The super comfortable experience of painting wherever you want (and need) and take with you all your 2D work it's one of the best things in this world.
Sometimes I feel the needing of painting and I can't because I am not at home with my PC...With a surface, I can start a project in ClipStudio or Photoshop, and continue it in my Desktop PC and comeback again with my tablet and come and continue in my PC and viceversa till the end of the artwork. iPad Pro can't allow you that. And Apple is loosing the battle even when they invented this gadget and they have the best quality product.
I am a former user of Procreate and believe me, it's an amazing program, the best tablet oriented painting program I've ever used for any Operating System.
It's a pleasure to interchange opinions and reviews with you, from this with passionates us. :)
You got some good points there José! We are always looking for the best tools to work with. If it is on paper or digital. In the end they are just tools to master your drawings and paintings. I just switch between working on my Mac, on my iPad and occasionally on paper.
Wow man you made it super clear and easy. Thanks
I learned a lot by watching your video without sound... Just watching... xD But really, thank you!
+minz456 Great to hear! Thanks for the compliment!
Great to see how a real artist uses ASP. Thanks.
Rick Evertsz Thanks for the compliment Rick! There are so many ways of using ASP. I just like to mix it up with real media. It gives a different kind of look you can't achieve digitally. Are you working with ASP?
Stayf Draws I toy around with it. I was attracted by the bone animation. I probably fire it up once or twice a year, and have been upgrading to each new version since v8. Not the best way to spend my money, but I have fun with it for a week or two before moving on. Hoping to have free time to do something substantial one day, but it just hasn't happened so far :)
Thanks a lot for this! This tutorial was surprisingly very helpful and helped me figure out how to animate a series I'm planning to get that illustration motion style! Thanks again!
+ArtMun Studios You are welcome! Lots of success with the animations!
I loved your tutorial it was nice to see your working style
thank you Stayf. Excellent tutorial. I'm very interested in more tutorials animating paintings and drawings in anime Studio because I am making animations from picturebook illustrations. Many thanks for your generous work.
+Cynthia Nugent Thanks for the compliment Cynthia! I have made another video about animating Children's Book illustrations and you can see it here: ruclips.net/video/aT-sgcMAmPk/видео.html I hope that will be usefull. I will be making more videos about animating in Anime Studio. A new one is coming up soon so stay tuned!
I saw the final animation. It was great!
+Janet Garcia Thanks Janet!
I LOVED this video. exactly what I wanted to see
thank u brother for all this effort
+Streres Streres You are welcome
Thank you sir for this tutorial it is very useful
Awesome
Can't wait to try this
+Postive Molly Have fun with it!
Excellent Video tutorial Stayf. Definitely would like to see more tutorials
i love your video. I have lots of such painting and i am happy to make them live :). Thanks
+Muhammad Awais Thanks Muhammad! I would love to see them, when you have made them move!
Please more tut's of how to anima single drawing.
-and a reference to other such tut's would be great :)
Good work Sir!
Thanks Nikolaj, I will do a new video about animating a single illustraion in Moho soon. You can also check out my Anime Studio/Moho Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLN-kPOo3iKJNSbFY7dzw5JB6Gs8UbQz45
very relaxing tutorial. love it.
Toodles! :)
I would like more Anime Studio Pro 11 tutorials.
Great Video! Thanks for posting, I'm considering getting Anime Studio Pro and your video was very information and helpful!
You are welcome David! You can do great animations with Anime Studio!
It's a clear and helpful tuts.. Thanks a lot :D
Definitely more tutorials! Thank you :)
This exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you for this video! Beautiful drawings btw!
Thanks Lillian and good luck with making your own animations!
Thanks Stayf. Very useful. Please do more.
Hello Roger, I will upload a new video about using Anime Studio Pro 11 animating an otter with Life-Action this coming Sunday.
Thanks, man. I'll look out for that.
Brilliant and Inspiring! Thank you!
+Inside Out NYC Thanks! I really appreciate it!
Wow
Now that is really good tutorial. I am biggener at animation and start with moho. It seemed looking at white boring board full with icons and tabs. My mind stopped.
You should make a complete course for animation with moho from scratch. Please think about that. Each course I bought in moho was missing lots of consept or difficult to follow. When I find your chanel it was like a safe from drowning. I also bought your tutorial on vemo (Animate 2D with live_ action. You make everything seems easy.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for doing this.
+sickphil71 You are welcome, good to hear!
Amazing
Thank's gave me some good ideas
Great to hear!
Thank you
thanks for ur work !!!
You are welcome!
thank u very much.
I subscribed! You are very talented, make more tutorials! they are so great and help me out a lot! :)
+MLG_LEDUS_60182 Thanks, nice to hear! I will do more tutorials about Anime Studio in the future. Do you work wih Anime Studio?
yeah, i just got my Tablet today :P
Ok, cool!
Hey Stayf, well done. I really enjoyed your finished result. I also wanted to point you towards a little art program called Art Rage. It can emulate painting with oils, water color, pen and ink, pencil, etc .... But you might really be interested in it's chalk and crayon painting tools which look very much like pastel. You can even pick the type and roughness of the digital paper you're drawing on.
It's only like $49 US, then another $100 for a wacom pen tablet. But it would save you SO MUCH time converting your artwork to digital. Plus, you could also create your illustrations in layers, then save them out as a PSD file, which could them be imported into Anime Studio pro.
Check it out, and take care :)
Can you do a step-by-step on how to make character move in animation studio
with the bones and a photo animated studio pro 11 thank
dude you are super talented but your tutorials are hard to follow when you use hotkeys without tellings us because most new3 people are listening and watching your mouse clicks. but thankyou keep up the great videos
thanks! really helpful.
Samuel Junus You are welcome Samuel! Do you work with Anime Studio?
Oh! Amazing! I loved it!
Thank you!
This is very cool. I'm wanting to do an animated video using water colors and I'm thinking I can use a similar technique. However, it looks fairly time consuming. I could see a five minute animation taking several months to complete. I was curious if it would be faster to draw the deer on green paper and chroma key or color select it out versus do the hand selection process.
You can draw it green coloured paper, but then this will shine through when you paint with watercolour. You want to preserve the edges of water-colors and pastels. That makes it unique. If you have a character you want to animate it is best to make a setup from your character from all angles. With a set of arms, legs and a variety of hand poses. I have made another video about setting up a character in Anime Studio and Moho and you can find it here:
ruclips.net/video/aYQIPLNzvwc/видео.html
Very nice, sir. You inspired me....
+lasantha pushpasena Thank You!
Hi there Stayf! Great tutorial using pastel and animate it with Anime Studio Pro 11! I'm new to this animation thingy; but I begin to love it so much! With bones and anything! Looking forward to see your other tutorials! (Oh, did you use After Effects as well for final composition?)
I'm looking to paint isometric models by importing them into an advanced painting software. Is there one you could recommend that isn't as expensive as Photoshop, preferably one I purchase a perpetual license.
A great paint software is Rebelle 2. www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/
Thank you for sharing your expertise in your well done videos! Ever since seeing what effects can be done using the Pin Tool in Adobe's After Effects, I've been mesmerized by the organic feel that it has. But, with Adobe's choice to "rent" their cloud-ware, I'm finding it to be cost prohibitive in the long run. My quest continues for the search of the perfect tool. I have been attempting to do this technique of animation (and cut-out animation) in Blender, the results so far have been encouraging, but I am feeling that AnimateStudioPro's workflow and tools would make this process easier... at least you make it look to be so easy! Please do some more videos using AnimationStudioPro. Would you also share what kinds of projects that you're applying these animations to? Thanks again, Stayf... Doodles!
William Rose Hello William, Thanks for the compliment. I have been working with Anime Studio for a long time doing animations of Children's book and Children's Books apps. One app is called Timo and the Magic Picture Book and is available for iPad. Here is a little preview ruclips.net/video/maT946oCQjg/видео.html
Here are some other samples of Children's Book adaptation done with ASP:
vimeo.com/50002766
I also make all my animations for the RUclips channel LikeZOO! All of the animations are done in Anime Studio Pro:
ruclips.net/user/ProfAntonMole
I will do more tutorials on working in Anime Studio soon. Starting out with ASP is hard in the beginning but fortunately Smith Micro has a great forum and community and the software has regular updates and great support.
There is a great community forum where you can find great tutorials as well:
www.lostmarble.com/forum/
Great work.
+krishna s Thanks Krishna!
When I move the bones the picture doesn't move with it. The bones move and the photo stays the same. How can I fix it?
You first need to drag your photolayer on the Bone layer, otherwise they are not linked to each other.
Stayf Draws thanks!
Stayf Draws also, how did you get the scene to look like perspective? When you moved the cam, the background moved too.
On frame zero select the top layer and then go to the adjustment menu on top of your screen. You can see it at 8:42 when I change the numbers behind the Z. Z is the depth of your layers. Make your background layer on 0 and the Z depth of your character or what is on top of it a bigger number like 0.2 or 0.4. Then double click on your layer and select Allow animated layer effect. Then your depth of field should work with your camera.
that was cool
Im not trying to start anything so please understand this is just a question but why did you not mask it off vs erase ?
If you mask it off and then import it to Anime Studio it won't work. Every layer is imported as a png.
:) Thank you!
When I added the bones and try to move, it doesn't move with the picture
You need to link your image layer to your bone layer
Stayf Draws how would I do that? Thanks
Drag the image layer onto the bone layer.
Great stuff! Easy listening with lots of info to learn from while referencing the features of Anime Studio. One question. Since I use other drawing programs, will it be much harder without Photoshop? ie. scene updates, importing.
+Les Henderson Thanks Les! If you can export your layered file to a PSD- file you can import it into Anime Studio. Otherwise you have to export all your layers as PNG's with Alpha channel. Most programs have scripts for it to batch export.
+Stayf Draws
Of course. Being able to convert to the right file format is just as good as having the program as long as you're not dealing with some integrated plugin. Even then you should be able to do it manually.
Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks for your tutorial.
I have to visit your channel. I would like to make traditional animation, frame by frame.
And I'm going to try Clip Studio to see the new area of animation, to see how it works.
+José Ramírez Thanks José! I haven't updated to Clip Studio yet. I love the drawing tools in Clip Studio, so I am definitely going to check out the new version and will do a review about it. Have you done any animation I can see somewhere? I would love to see some!
+Stayf Draws I need to first, see your animations and learn some things from you and then make some tryings.
But what I would like is combine frame by frame animation and bones animation when possible.
My advice it to just start and doing some animations. That is what I do all the time! Just explore and make a lot of mistakes. Because you learn more from your mistakes than from doing everything right in one go!
hello sirr! can you make tutorial on timeline of Anime studio, because m uable to under stand red arrows functions on key Dots..on timeline..
+pardeep kumar I will do more in depth tutorials on working in Anime Studio soon.
So you have to have layers for the bones menu to work? because for me when i import a picture i have done with only one layer i cant select the bone menu
+eyewishwalrus You first need to create a Bone Layer and after that import your image. Preferably a PNG with no background. Drag the PNG layer onto the Bone layer so that they are linked. Then you can create your bones in Your Bone Layer and the bones will be blinded to your image.
thanks man so do you literally just add a new layer and call it bone layer or is there a special way? i much appreciate your help here from new zealand ;) im having trouble with this journey as a gimp artist already
+eyewishwalrus I will do a video tutorial on how to make your Bone layer. Here is the description: In the layers panel you have options to what layer you want to make it. Select Bone layer and then you will have a Bone Layer.
awesome i will try and find it
this is a good work
+Billy Five Thanks Billy!
Cool!
png file, you are a genius thank you
Amazing!!!
Can you install Anime Studio Pro 11 into more than one computer? Like, I'll buy it, install it on my laptop, and later install it on a desktop. Is that possible, or do I need to buy another?
+HorrorScope You can install it on two computers.
Stayf Draws thanks!
Stayf Draws Also, is there audio recording in 11? Just making sure :P
what are you saying you drew with? Parcel draw and parcel backgrounds ??
+Martin Duffy Pastels and pastel pencils! ;)
ohhhh thx
Great lesson!!!! Yes, more Moho/PhotoShop would be wonderful!!!! I'm learning how to animate my oil paintings. Do you have any in this animation style of machines--like cars, bulldozers, tractors, etc? Someone did a short animation for me of one of my snowcat machine paintings. I would love to be able to figure out all the stuff she did!!! Thank you very much for the lesson!!!!!
I'm loving your tutorials man! I do have a question about attaching bones to png files. In your video you seem to draw your bones and instantly your image is attached to the bones. I have my png file uploaded, bones drawn, the bones work great, but my image is completely detached from the bones. Any thoughts? Thanks
+Tim Solly Thanks Tim! If you create a bone layer, you need to drag the PNG layer on to the bone layer. Then your PNG file is attached to the Bone and then you can Bind the bones to your PNG file.
Hey man, thank you so much for getting back to me! After plenty of prayer and time spent trying different things I eventually found the reason nothing was sticking to my png file. I had to double-click on each png layer, click on the tab farthest to the right (image), then check the Warp using bone box. Then of course play around with the Bone strength a bit. It's working just fine now. Thank you again for responding and keep up the good work. God bless!
Great to hear Tim! It can be daunting sometimes. But just stay calm and look at it in a different way!
So very true man!
Thanks. Plz do more
Great tutorial, and i have a doubt. if we want to animate this pastel deer or any other like this painting, is it possible to turn front ? how we do this? is it possible in this type of manual painting? Thank you Sir...
+Sreekumar KP It is not possible to turn it around. You have to make a new painting of the turnaround. You could make a different setup of the deer by breaking it up in parts. Let's say you want the head of the deer to move towards the camera. You could either draw all the inbetween steps on paper and edit them in Photoshop and animate it with a switch layer. Or you could break up all the parts of the face. Like the basic shape of the head, eyes, nose, mouth ears and antlers on separate layers and animate the parts individually.
+Stayf Draws Wow... You are great... Thank you for your quick response. Iam so happy..
Anway your tutorial is fantastic. I have no words to say about the result
of this excellent animation and expect more tutorials from you.. Thank you
+Sreekumar KP You are welcome!
Weet u toevallig of dit ook mogelijk is met Anime Studio Debut (11)? Want dit ziet er heel mooi uit en ik weet niet of ik Pro of Debut moet downloaden. Alvast bedankt!
+Domino Pippa Goede vraag! Ik denk dat dit ook mogelijk is in Anime Studio Debut. De Bones zijn de basis van Anime Studio.
+Domino Pippa De video heb ik ook in het Nederlands gemaakt en kan je op mijn Nederlandstalige kanaal Stefan Tekent bekijken: ruclips.net/video/zYrvRQlggho/видео.html
+Stayf Draws bedankt voor de snelle reactie :) ik had het Nederlandse kanaal nog niet gezien, bedankt!
Great tutorial! Maybe instead of erasing, use a mask, much better for corrections, especially those that you notice much later. Does it work with anime Studio? Also shadows etc. coming from Photoshop?
+Frank Thanks for the tip Frank, I don't think Anime Studio will export the masks or other effects. I have to check that. I will let you know. Do you work with Anime Studio?
Stayf Draws Glad I could give something back. Yes I work with Anime Studio Pro 11.
Frank
Where can I see your work Frank?
Fantastic video and great artist but I'm a bit confused
I've watched a tutorial before where to animate an imported .PNG file you had to trace the image first. But in this video, he just imports the image and starts adding bones and animating without having to trace. Do you know longer have to trace the image?
+leftyfourguns You don't have to trace your PNG. You just need to have a large size PNG, then when you zoom in with the camera your rendered PNGwon't get pixelated. If you vectorize your PNG you have more option to animate your character with the vector points. What I like about animating original illustrations is the different styles you can work in.
+Stayf Draws Thank you! I didn't know that. So I want to make the PNGs' resolution as large as possible?
Not too large, otherwise your files will be too big. Just make them as big as you want to zoom them in. If you are working in HD 1920X 1080 I make you characters at least 2100 pixels tall.
Hoi, ik ben een beginneling, met Moho 12 aan de slag (vroeger op Amiga kleine 2d-animaties gemaakt) wil animaties maken opnieuw leren en probeer daarom een animatie te maken van iemands tekeningen. Ik heb net een video van je bekeken, leuk! Ik heb ook getekende dieren in Photoshop, geimporteerd in Moho 12 en nu probeer ik een wat vloeiende beweging met koppies/hoofdjes van links naar rechts te maken (met sequencer), maar dat gaat nog wat schokkerig, heb je wellicht tips? Ik heb de koppies/hoofdjes in 5 verschillende standen, van links, naar midden en naar rechts kijken in verschillende lagen psd opgeslagen. Groet, Miranda Vos
Daarvoor kan je het beste de Switch Layer gebruiken. In deze video leg ik daar meer over uit : ruclips.net/video/BoL_KQCxEjA/видео.htmlm5s
Oh bedankt, ik ga 'm bekijken!
Dank je! Erg goede uitleg geef je in je video's, heb er inmiddels 3 bekeken, fijn om naar te kijken en uitstekend om van te leren. Groet, Miranda
which version of adobe photo shop is that.
That is Photoshop CC 2015
Adobe removed cs6 and previous.. They only sell subscriptions now.
Can you do this in Debut 10
+Cool Cool Yes, I think you can! I don't have Debut 10. But it should work to import PNG files.
Nice work Stayf. Got a FB page?
+NPAT Equal Custody Yes, it is the same name: m.facebook.com/StayfDRAWS
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hehe ik ben ook nederlands maar ik praat heel vaak engels
Watches video. Why wouldn't you just use the magic eraser DB lol good video though
Simply because back then there was no Magic Eraser!
In 2015? :\ Regardless, good tutorial.
you have a lot of teeth lololol