Just a tip that I figured out by accident on firealpaca: If you need to make multiple frames invisible or visible again, just hover your mouse over the area with the button, then click and move your mouse up and down depending on which frames you want to change, so you don't have to click on each one individually. Sorry if this makes no sense lol, it's kinda hard to explain ;-; Edit: I've been informed that you don't need to hold down space, my bad!
My animator friends: "why do you use such complicated animation softwares? Do you want to suffer?" Me watching this video: 🤠they don't know what pain is
My brain leaves me every time I try a computer animation app. That’s why I stick with Callipeg (which I highly recommend) or my animations will never be finished.
Firealpaca, was so so painful. I recently switched over to Clip Studio for animation just because the absolute pain of counting out which frames should happen when in my editor made me lose my shit. I mainly switched so shading would be easier but then I figured out in fire alpaca onion skim you can just make a folder for every frame instead 😭😭😭
You can export all the layers together with FireAlpaca, you just need to put it on onion skin so when you click Export, the option "Export Layers Onion Skin Mode" you can use. You can cease a percentage of your suffering~
I did that since day one and I deadass laughed when I saw them exporting one by one Like "yesss... I enjoy your excessive suffering as I use the export layers >:) yEEEessssss.."
Likewise! Especially, when I'm new to animation and STILL trying to figure out cat poses, and having to change colors, because I did a Leafpool and Crowfeather the other day I finally uploaded wee hour in the morning this morning. When I was doing colors, I realized I had to make him gray instead of black, because in my mind, he's a black cat. Now I understand why I see some people make him more gray than black. I grew up with cats, but because I don't currently own one, I don't get to study their poses unless I go online.
Yo, pro-tip, if you make folders, FireAlpaca will combine all of the layers in that folder to make each frame. It makes it really convenient to do linework and color and such over sketches without making things super complicated with trying to figure out which layer is an actual frame and which is a sketch. Also makes backgrounds so much easier, as you can just copy and paste them into all of your folders and still be able to tweak other stuff if need be. Also, I'm doing the same thing lmaoo, except I'm using Windows Movie Maker to put all my frames together and add audio.
A thing that I noticed! If you don't want to export all the frames manually, there is an export layers (onion skin mode) option. (You allready prob know that but hear me out) If you put the layers for the frames in a folder then it counts it as one frame (also allows the autoplay feature to work, and keep you organized anyway) (also you can duplicate folders too so yeah)
as a Firealpaca animator, I am definitely appalled and intrigued in your methods (I an an Onion Skin child so :"">) EDIT: *the transparent PNG exporting is such a m o o d*
I'm over here screeching at the relatability of this, I too use firealpaca for art, and THANK YOU FOR SHOWING WHAT THE CLIP TOOL IS FOR, I COULDN'T FIGURE THAT OUT, I AM A FOOL
This helped a lot. I’ve been drawing in fire alpaca for like almost 5 years I think idk and have been wanting to use it for animation and now I know how.
Tips Every layer can have a sub layer using folders, draw a sketch in a folder, then draw line art, then its like normally if you drew art, think of folders as a frame with different layers if that makes sense, you can also have more frames in said frame for multiple characters (in case u want to move them around later) "File" "export layers (Onion skin mode)" create a New folder (rename the folder) click ok, then u dont have to redo years of work if u forgot to put transparent. messed up? delete the folder and try again, Hold down Ctrl Up or down to preview ur animation without looking at fire alpacas auto play Do not forget to save, do not rely on autosave, always keep the habit no matter what, ctrl s often if ur keyboard is selecting the layers instead of clicking individual ones even if youre not holding down ctrl, press ctrl once, then itll not do that anymore mark shading and patterns as you go on your keyframes, dont do it after you inbetween hopes this helps Ctrl T to transform and size up or down a thing, or even rotate, only do this during sketch phase as it looses quality. You may also while in ctrl T mode hold down contrl to change more Do not rely on fire alpaca to remember whats outside the white box, ctrl t allows you to resize it without cutting off, but the lasso tool will cut off anything outside the white box
holy shit man i do not know if youll see this but thank you SO MUCH for writing this, you have no idea how appreciative i am because this will def help me in the long run with something im making kudos!! ❤
Hello! I sometimes animate in Fire Alpaca aswell, and I just wanted to tell you that if you make a folder for each of your frames, you will be able to export all of the layers of this frame togheter and to view it correctly in the fa preview animation option! :D
Additional tip: if you put the layers of each frame into separate folders, the export all layers feature will export a PNG for each folder, so you don't have to export frame by frame manually in order to have all of your layers for each frame together
I used to animate on firealpaca and just export them as gifs but that was almost IMPOSSIBLE with the onion skin mode, I’ve moved to flipaclip like a year or two ago and it’s just- so much easier for me personally
I also recommend taking advantage of the wonderful folder features more, each frame being a folder makes it better for using Autoplay to see the animation hahah
OMG!! I'm a beginner artist and animator learning how to use firealpaca, and theres a tutorial by none other than one of my favorite artists Northflowo ! :DD
This is kind of how I was planning to animate with Autodesk Sketchbook and a video editing app, it’s good to know I‘m not completely crazy. I’m not going to try it though until I’ve finished the thing I’m making in FlipaClip.
Note about drawing with a mouse: some people seem to be better at it than others. I’m sure practice makes anyone better at it, but I have a friend who draws on her computer in class and her mouse drawings look AMAZING; on par with her regular style, and super smooth and nice looking. Meanwhile, anything I try to write or draw with a mouse looks like a toddler wrote it with their non-dominant hand 💀 (to the best of my knowledge, my friend hasn’t been drawing with a mouse for years or anything either.)
Just a tip for you North, in case ya didn't know! You can just set the layers of each frame into a folder so that, when exporting it in onion layers [Firealpaca's built in way to export all the layers for you], it will take all the visible frames in that folder and export them all as if it were one frame. Sorry if that's a bit confusing, I'm not to good at explaining stuff but basically you wouldn't have to check and un-check visible for each frame and export them hand by hand but rather let firealpaca do it for you, that way you don't have to go through the hassle of trying to export them with onion and ending up with a bunch of separate frames that are supposed to be combined!
Wow I use Firealpaca too :D I use onion skin to animate, so I just draw all my frames using onion skin mode and whatnot, then when I'm done use autoplay to see how slow or fast I want it or how it looks good, then I export it as a whole animated GIF :D
The further we got the more chaotic this bullshit came. Don't tell me I was the only one who felt bad for North because she/they had no idea how to explain their coloring and shading methods *oh GOD.* Otherwises, very hecking awesome video. Again.
I’m an actual idiot. I literally only just found out you could change the paint bucket settings on firealpaca from this video I’ve been using firealpaca for 6 years.
I use Procreate ( yes thats the name ) to draw the thing then edit on Capcut. I use the Animation Assist feature on Procreate to preview the animation and then when it's finished, I either export all the frames individually or just export the thing as a gif then add it to capcut. I animate strangely :)
did you know theres an option to export all frames at once? File- Export Layers (onion skin mode) then you can select if you want the background transparent or not
I use fire alpaca, and it’s nice to see someone who goes through my same struggles XD. But for organizing layers for certain frames (I usually use like three layers per frame for colors lines and shading), I use the folder feature, because it keeps everything concise.
Very helpful, and it seems actually more friendly. I've been trying so many apps. I think I'll like this better than borrowing my sister's photoshop plan to animate when I'm not doing yard sign templates. Pencil 2D and Paint 3D are great, but it's tedious doing one after another and saving one pic one at a time in order for it to look animated. I like that I can do this straight into a pain and layer program. Thanks!
Hey, using folders really helps me, you can export folders instead of each layer, it makes it so that you can edit each layer of any frame after you've exported them so you can come back to edit it after. The only downside to this is that it can cause lag if you have too many layers total.
You mentioned something about not being able to export multiple frames at the same time, right? So... there's a function in which you could count a folder as a single frame, and there you could group all your layers and make it part of the folder. When you export the frames then, it'll export the end result of each folder- background, shading, colors and all.
Opentoonz? Could be perfect! Because it's another free and simple software (with one or two tutorials on youtube I mean) and because I am also using Firealpaca to animate and it's kind of a long way to make that happen, right? By the way, in Firealpaca, you can export all your layers at once by clicing on "Export layers...", than it ask "make the background transparent?" than it ask if you want to open Douga wich doesn't work anymore and you say no but anyway, you got all yours layers at once in one folder name by 001...002...to the end. Thank you for your tuto, that was fun to watch, you are talented!
“I have hundreds of frames at times” wow,, I personally use onion skin mode and the frames are folders and I export all at once but that’s because I get impatient ngl and also when I hit New (new drawing), I go to Animation and select the thing that makes a folder for each frame (I stick to setting it to either 7 or 8) and just,, make a loop lol Also also,, I just make still frames as normal drawings. Man I need to figure out a better way to animate lol Oh and firealpaca has a lot of good features (am biased, is the only program I’ve used lol) like Reference and stuff. I’m poor so yknow there’s def better ways but hey I’m barely 16 what am I gonna do with a computer than tries to crash firealpaca when I close a drawing or open my editor or have more than 3 applications running (I always have disc and firealpaca up which is a struggle lol)
This is literally how I animate... excpet I do it on an old, laggy tablet with Ibispaint X and I assemble on dumb flipaclip, and because I'm cheap, I just screen record my animation off of it instead of paying to remove the logo. Many of these methods are familiar :O I relate very much okay enough about me your animation is beautiful(Not that Northflower will ever actually read this T-T why am I even posting this)
I do it differently. So, step 1 I go make a new thing. Then I switch it over to animation instead of a normal canvas. Then, pick as many frames as you want (make sure you got A LOT of frames) I also use layer folders separating the frames so I can color, sketch, and shade like an illustation. when you want to export, go down in the file thing, and click "Export Layers (Onion Skin Mode)" pick a folder for them to go in. THEN, get your editing program and put the frames in. If you hold shift while picking your frames, you can select them all at once. that was long.
Lol I need to re watch all of your animations now and appreciate how hard you worked Can we address the buff ivypool folder lmao How tf did I not know you could adjust the paintbucket tool... I literally would go around the entire drawing and trace over the little white pixels 😭
3:30 if that's the case you can use folders to do the colors and lineart on seperate layers and just make the colors invisible when drawing additional frames? You can also keep seperate elements in their own folders too, and if you want to view them while using onion skin mode you can place them within the folders you're already working in. Idk if this makes much sense but I think there's a way to reduce your workload and the tedium here
Moral of the story: Northflower likes to make everything harder for herself.
mood
is that a ramshackle fan i see-
ikr
Me who uses firealpaca to animate: *Laughs in pain from 5420 layers-*
WHAT😀😀
Sadly its the pain of using firealpaca- ;-;
Wait holy crap I have more than a hundred likes and got hearted- This is one of my most liked comments that I have- What is this sorcery. o-o
I use ibis paint and thought 100 was a lot
um 😃😃
Lets be honest. It's gonna help a ton of madlads.
Yes
Hi
Yes indeed it did
Same I use flipa clip
Opps worng comment. Ugh
that is one interesting thumbnail
Its beautiful
@@MATOGAST. yes c:
very intriguing
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Indeed so, comrad.
“An editing program preferably”
*laughs in iMovie mobile while emailing 500 frames one by one to myself*
Jesus Christ that sounds like absolute hell
Is it bad that I do that too-
@@Zarii_ dam-
oh god
and here I thought I was the only one who did that
Just a tip that I figured out by accident on firealpaca: If you need to make multiple frames invisible or visible again, just hover your mouse over the area with the button, then click and move your mouse up and down depending on which frames you want to change, so you don't have to click on each one individually. Sorry if this makes no sense lol, it's kinda hard to explain ;-;
Edit: I've been informed that you don't need to hold down space, my bad!
hi
:0 woah I did not know that
I did not expect to see you here haha thanks for that tip
Just gonna save this info because holy frick I did not know this
THANK YOUUU
My animator friends: "why do you use such complicated animation softwares? Do you want to suffer?"
Me watching this video: 🤠they don't know what pain is
north flower giving us a whole tut on how they animate. *
Me: FlipaClip is nice. Yeah.
Lol-
I need a better animation program than FlipaClip
Lol
@@vyronix5698 Same
Flipaclip is actually a pretty good program to animate with if you have access to the paid features.
@@Clooover Haha I used it for everything lol I love it way more than having to press so many controls just to make a god blessing line lol
Really surprised of Northflower persistence
she is literally dying and still using FireAlpaca :00
My brain leaves me every time I try a computer animation app.
That’s why I stick with Callipeg (which I highly recommend) or my animations will never be finished.
Firealpaca, was so so painful. I recently switched over to Clip Studio for animation just because the absolute pain of counting out which frames should happen when in my editor made me lose my shit. I mainly switched so shading would be easier but then I figured out in fire alpaca onion skim you can just make a folder for every frame instead 😭😭😭
You can export all the layers together with FireAlpaca, you just need to put it on onion skin so when you click Export, the option "Export Layers Onion Skin Mode" you can use. You can cease a percentage of your suffering~
Oh that's cool XD
I did that since day one and I deadass laughed when I saw them exporting one by one
Like "yesss... I enjoy your excessive suffering as I use the export layers >:) yEEEessssss.."
I could never animate without being able to play back what I’m animating, I know it’ll turn out wonky in more ways than one. I gotta have onion skin
Same thats why I use FlipaClip lol
Firealpaca does have onion skin, looks like northflower just doesnt use it
I use flipaclip
@Pixeloti I use flipaclip at the moment, and I did when I wrote that.
Likewise! Especially, when I'm new to animation and STILL trying to figure out cat poses, and having to change colors, because I did a Leafpool and Crowfeather the other day I finally uploaded wee hour in the morning this morning. When I was doing colors, I realized I had to make him gray instead of black, because in my mind, he's a black cat. Now I understand why I see some people make him more gray than black. I grew up with cats, but because I don't currently own one, I don't get to study their poses unless I go online.
the way she becomes tireder and more exhausted by the second is hilarious and i feel bad for laughing at it but -
thanks for the tutorial!
‘Wow you did it.’
hi
thanks, i will now maybe think about making 4 second animations
XD
I made a video with Fire Alpaca
* deep breath*
*Why is no one talking about the fact she has a folder called buff ivypool?*
omG WAT
Wait-
1:31
"Drawing tablet-"
me: *laughs in animating with bare hands + with a phone*
SAMEEEEE
Yo, pro-tip, if you make folders, FireAlpaca will combine all of the layers in that folder to make each frame. It makes it really convenient to do linework and color and such over sketches without making things super complicated with trying to figure out which layer is an actual frame and which is a sketch. Also makes backgrounds so much easier, as you can just copy and paste them into all of your folders and still be able to tweak other stuff if need be.
Also, I'm doing the same thing lmaoo, except I'm using Windows Movie Maker to put all my frames together and add audio.
Lemon demon has emerged from Map Hell
I love the “wow you did it” when North added a new layer
YOU GODSEND I WAS JUST ABOUT TO GO ATTEMPT TO ANIMATE AS A FIREALPACA USER
Autodesk sketchbook is good its free and u can animate on it
I love the motivation and then the praise:
' wow. You did it. "
Those words will follow me throughout my existance
Thank you :')
When you were doing shading and everything after that you literally sound like you’re heading to the nearest bridge-
A thing that I noticed! If you don't want to export all the frames manually, there is an export layers (onion skin mode) option. (You allready prob know that but hear me out) If you put the layers for the frames in a folder then it counts it as one frame (also allows the autoplay feature to work, and keep you organized anyway) (also you can duplicate folders too so yeah)
how u do that
i was there for the stream of animating whatever that was and i couldn’t have guessed what it was for ;-;
as a Firealpaca animator, I am definitely appalled and intrigued in your methods
(I an an Onion Skin child so :"">)
EDIT: *the transparent PNG exporting is such a m o o d*
I'm over here screeching at the relatability of this, I too use firealpaca for art, and THANK YOU FOR SHOWING WHAT THE CLIP TOOL IS FOR, I COULDN'T FIGURE THAT OUT, I AM A FOOL
This helped a lot. I’ve been drawing in fire alpaca for like almost 5 years I think idk and have been wanting to use it for animation and now I know how.
Tips
Every layer can have a sub layer using folders, draw a sketch in a folder, then draw line art, then its like normally if you drew art, think of folders as a frame with different layers if that makes sense, you can also have more frames in said frame for multiple characters (in case u want to move them around later)
"File"
"export layers (Onion skin mode)"
create a New folder (rename the folder)
click ok, then u dont have to redo years of work if u forgot to put transparent. messed up? delete the folder and try again,
Hold down Ctrl Up or down to preview ur animation without looking at fire alpacas auto play
Do not forget to save, do not rely on autosave, always keep the habit no matter what, ctrl s often
if ur keyboard is selecting the layers instead of clicking individual ones even if youre not holding down ctrl, press ctrl once, then itll not do that anymore
mark shading and patterns as you go on your keyframes, dont do it after you inbetween
hopes this helps
Ctrl T to transform and size up or down a thing, or even rotate, only do this during sketch phase as it looses quality. You may also while in ctrl T mode hold down contrl to change more
Do not rely on fire alpaca to remember whats outside the white box, ctrl t allows you to resize it without cutting off, but the lasso tool will cut off anything outside the white box
holy shit man i do not know if youll see this but thank you SO MUCH for writing this, you have no idea how appreciative i am because this will def help me in the long run with something im making
kudos!! ❤
As someone who animated in fire alpaca for years, this methodology is terrifying
Me who already knows how to use firealpaca: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
XD Same
Don’t have it so I’m sad :((( but this is going to help so many people!
I like how this began as a proper tutorial and ended up a fever dream
i cannot believe that nobody is talking about how the classical music gets more cursed by the second
Hello! I sometimes animate in Fire Alpaca aswell, and I just wanted to tell you that if you make a folder for each of your frames, you will be able to export all of the layers of this frame togheter and to view it correctly in the fa preview animation option! :D
Why do you do this to yourself??? This would drive me insane
Northflower is just on the verge of tears whenever she explains how she did it her way
Alternative title: Animation tutorial slowly turns into madness for 9 minutes.
Additional tip: if you put the layers of each frame into separate folders, the export all layers feature will export a PNG for each folder, so you don't have to export frame by frame manually in order to have all of your layers for each frame together
I used to animate on firealpaca and just export them as gifs but that was almost IMPOSSIBLE with the onion skin mode, I’ve moved to flipaclip like a year or two ago and it’s just- so much easier for me personally
I also recommend taking advantage of the wonderful folder features more, each frame being a folder makes it better for using Autoplay to see the animation hahah
OH FINALLY a youtuber I watch who can show me how to animate with Firealpaca. Northflower I am eternally grateful.
OMG!! I'm a beginner artist and animator learning how to use firealpaca, and theres a tutorial by none other than one of my favorite artists Northflowo ! :DD
This is kind of how I was planning to animate with Autodesk Sketchbook and a video editing app, it’s good to know I‘m not completely crazy.
I’m not going to try it though until I’ve finished the thing I’m making in FlipaClip.
This was painful to watch
I also have a new appreciation for your work
Me who still uses flipaclip
Yes i should know this
I didn't realize firealpaca had an autoplay feature !! I've been downloading the animation everytime I wanted to see how it looked
Note about drawing with a mouse: some people seem to be better at it than others. I’m sure practice makes anyone better at it, but I have a friend who draws on her computer in class and her mouse drawings look AMAZING; on par with her regular style, and super smooth and nice looking. Meanwhile, anything I try to write or draw with a mouse looks like a toddler wrote it with their non-dominant hand 💀 (to the best of my knowledge, my friend hasn’t been drawing with a mouse for years or anything either.)
Just a tip for you North, in case ya didn't know! You can just set the layers of each frame into a folder so that, when exporting it in onion layers [Firealpaca's built in way to export all the layers for you], it will take all the visible frames in that folder and export them all as if it were one frame. Sorry if that's a bit confusing, I'm not to good at explaining stuff but basically you wouldn't have to check and un-check visible for each frame and export them hand by hand but rather let firealpaca do it for you, that way you don't have to go through the hassle of trying to export them with onion and ending up with a bunch of separate frames that are supposed to be combined!
And I thought it was hard to animate on FlipaClip
Wow
I use Firealpaca too :D
I use onion skin to animate, so I just draw all my frames using onion skin mode and whatnot, then when I'm done use autoplay to see how slow or fast I want it or how it looks good, then I export it as a whole animated GIF :D
The further we got the more chaotic this bullshit came. Don't tell me I was the only one who felt bad for North because she/they had no idea how to explain their coloring and shading methods *oh GOD.*
Otherwises, very hecking awesome video. Again.
I’m an actual idiot. I literally only just found out you could change the paint bucket settings on firealpaca from this video
I’ve been using firealpaca for 6 years.
Me too! XD
Not the 6 years part though
Probably not even one year o.O
I got an ad at the beginning: “begin your future as an animator”
this was the funniest thing ive watched in a while lmao
north if you want the autoplay to work use folders, every folder counts as 1 frame- I discovered this by accident but it helps
This just really shows how much work North puts into her vids
Thank you for making this, I learned so many things about fire alpaca I didn't know before even though I've been using it for 4 years 😅
Omg you made part of Cell Block Tango? That’s my favorite MAP!
Honestly, I understood none of that
I respect ur work so much om-
How do u do that thats amazing-
I use Procreate ( yes thats the name ) to draw the thing then edit on Capcut.
I use the Animation Assist feature on Procreate to preview the animation and then when it's finished, I either export all the frames individually or just export the thing as a gif then add it to capcut.
I animate strangely :)
THE MUSIC OML🤣 fantastic video
My brain: well, this seems like the absolute best way to animate and it’s totally very practical and not inconvenient at all, *I should do this.*
I mean we can all agree this is not the most efficient way to do it, but
We all started/still do it that way
You press the buttons on the thing, draw that thing, click that thing, do the other thing, bam you have animation.
You know animating is hard when you can hear her suffering
I could hear the pain in her voice lmao I relate so much
did you know theres an option to export all frames at once? File- Export Layers (onion skin mode) then you can select if you want the background transparent or not
please see this I use firealpaca and you are suffering
Me who uses FlipaClip without the pass: *Laughs In Pain*
I use fire alpaca, and it’s nice to see someone who goes through my same struggles XD. But for organizing layers for certain frames (I usually use like three layers per frame for colors lines and shading), I use the folder feature, because it keeps everything concise.
i made like an actual animated gif in fire aplaca once, it was like 50ish layers ;w;
Very helpful, and it seems actually more friendly. I've been trying so many apps. I think I'll like this better than borrowing my sister's photoshop plan to animate when I'm not doing yard sign templates. Pencil 2D and Paint 3D are great, but it's tedious doing one after another and saving one pic one at a time in order for it to look animated. I like that I can do this straight into a pain and layer program. Thanks!
watching your animation tutorial I can now see that 55 video scenes for three minutes is way better than 500png
You're insane and I'm subbing
Hey, using folders really helps me, you can export folders instead of each layer, it makes it so that you can edit each layer of any frame after you've exported them so you can come back to edit it after. The only downside to this is that it can cause lag if you have too many layers total.
RESPECT. Lol seriously this takes patience, like twice more than the average to make animation. 👏👍😁
Okay- so I use Firealpaca and this is SO HELPFUL NOW AH
North I do the same thing except i use davinci resolve instead of whatever editing program u use finally someone else who animates like me
Wow, someone who actually animates like me. Except my reason is because I am too cheap to afford anything XD
You mentioned something about not being able to export multiple frames at the same time, right? So... there's a function in which you could count a folder as a single frame, and there you could group all your layers and make it part of the folder. When you export the frames then, it'll export the end result of each folder- background, shading, colors and all.
Opentoonz? Could be perfect! Because it's another free and simple software (with one or two tutorials on youtube I mean) and because I am also using Firealpaca to animate and it's kind of a long way to make that happen, right? By the way, in Firealpaca, you can export all your layers at once by clicing on "Export layers...", than it ask "make the background transparent?" than it ask if you want to open Douga wich doesn't work anymore and you say no but anyway, you got all yours layers at once in one folder name by 001...002...to the end. Thank you for your tuto, that was fun to watch, you are talented!
I just need to know how you draw so well
“I have hundreds of frames at times”
wow,,
I personally use onion skin mode and the frames are folders and I export all at once but that’s because I get impatient ngl and also when I hit New (new drawing), I go to Animation and select the thing that makes a folder for each frame (I stick to setting it to either 7 or 8) and just,, make a loop lol
Also also,, I just make still frames as normal drawings. Man I need to figure out a better way to animate lol
Oh and firealpaca has a lot of good features (am biased, is the only program I’ve used lol) like Reference and stuff. I’m poor so yknow there’s def better ways but hey I’m barely 16 what am I gonna do with a computer than tries to crash firealpaca when I close a drawing or open my editor or have more than 3 applications running (I always have disc and firealpaca up which is a struggle lol)
If you have layers in one frame you can put them all in a folder and that folder becomes the frame.
This is literally how I animate... excpet I do it on an old, laggy tablet with Ibispaint X and I assemble on dumb flipaclip, and because I'm cheap, I just screen record my animation off of it instead of paying to remove the logo. Many of these methods are familiar :O I relate very much
okay enough about me your animation is beautiful(Not that Northflower will ever actually read this T-T why am I even posting this)
This very helpful, mate. Thanks a lot.
I do it differently. So, step 1 I go make a new thing. Then I switch it over to animation instead of a normal canvas. Then, pick as many frames as you want (make sure you got A LOT of frames) I also use layer folders separating the frames so I can color, sketch, and shade like an illustation. when you want to export, go down in the file thing, and click "Export Layers (Onion Skin Mode)" pick a folder for them to go in. THEN, get your editing program and put the frames in. If you hold shift while picking your frames, you can select them all at once.
that was long.
hi
@@zib69420 hello
Lol I need to re watch all of your animations now and appreciate how hard you worked
Can we address the buff ivypool folder lmao
How tf did I not know you could adjust the paintbucket tool... I literally would go around the entire drawing and trace over the little white pixels 😭
I kinda wanna try this. I need to start animating eventually if I want to learn how to do things professionally
This was really helpful! But they made an update where you can use folders as frames and you can have all the layers in the folder
I animate almost exactly the same way 😯 (Except I sketch traditionally, then line, color, and make in-betweens digitally.)
Starts using fire alpaca cutely *
Another title: Northflower slowly losing her sanity with layers and editing -wheezing warning-
"Buff Ivypool/Ashfur has a nice body"
XD
3:30 if that's the case you can use folders to do the colors and lineart on seperate layers and just make the colors invisible when drawing additional frames? You can also keep seperate elements in their own folders too, and if you want to view them while using onion skin mode you can place them within the folders you're already working in. Idk if this makes much sense but I think there's a way to reduce your workload and the tedium here
Leafpool is back with the misspelled questions
So, can I ask about the editing bit? I actually want to try this and getting one drawing as one frame in the editing program seems hard.
That help but one thing,I DONT HAVE A LAPTOP, but thanks for showing me! 😊 God bless you!
Tip for saving the pictures more easily, press ctrl+shift+s it will show the save screen, and the process becomes more easy.
5:31-5:41 This is an actual method animators use called Shift n' Trace. You're welcome.