Saturday, July 7, 2012

Sketchy Vector Lines in ToonBoom

I'm working on a project where the client wants a sketchy textured line. I've been doing a lot of tests in ToonBoom Studiov6 and have come up with a possible solution. Since you can only get thick and thin vector lines without any added textures in the line, I am using two layers to make up the line and the line texture.

The first layer contains thin gray lines drawn quickly to give the scratchy line texture. This layer can be done in the blocking or rough animation stage, but instead of hiding this layer you move it above the clean line layer to break up and add texture to the animated line.

Here is a test where:
 A) The lines that animate will only move, but there is only one drawing during a hold.
 B) 3 line layers cycle above during the held drawing, thus keeping the drawing alive when its not moving.




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