Or "Look how much you can modify the software with all these custom panels". Not: "Look how many gadgets and settings we have hidden in FX panels, custom panels, plugins etc.!". I think the first overarching impression you should want to give with the tutorials is "look how easy TVP is to use straight out of the box!". When making tutorials it would be best to use TVPaint with all the standard settings that a new user would find opening the software for the very first time. Where to find all the settings that one would need, smooth settings, eraser, working with layers, etc, etc.Īnd please don't do tutorials where the demonstrator uses a bunch of self made custom panels, plugins and crazy hacks because that is very discouraging for a beginner! It makes the software seem awfully inaccessible.
#How to use tvpaint how to#
So for new users, a proper demonstration on how to start drawing and painting from the get-go would be good. But I suppose that is another discussion) Or they found it too much of a hassle having to search for the panels that contain those settings. I think this goes especially for natural looking painting brushes. (The standard brushes are still kind of limited in my opinion and not as diverse compared to many other graphics software, Photoshop being the largest one out there. I've heard from friends and colleagues who've tried TVP that they got discouraged because they couldn't find the right drawing and painting tools and the settings for those. In my opinion, one of TVPaint's strongest assets is it's brush engine. For the beginners tutorials (aimed for people discovering TVPaint Animation), what essential information should these tutorials contain ? (what would a newcomer should first learn about the software) I think it's better to have more short tuts as a few long ones.īTW: I've never used a TVPaint tutorial. Most helpful for me were the tutorials have treated briefly and quickly the individual topics.
#How to use tvpaint full#
Make them full HD, sometime I found it very difficult to identify witch button was pressed or wich menu was choosen when watching an undefined soup of pixels.
I've scrolled very often inside much to long tutorials to find the valuable information I was looking for. Every user is able to use the start and stop button of a video player. I never had problems with non native speakers or "broken english" speakers - but they should be well recorded. In my opinion, a video tutorial should be planned well (like an animted film ) and should use a script for the narrator. I totally don't like if the "narrator" haven't planned the steps he tries to show and also didn't planned the spoken text. I often used Tutorials for audio applications and some After effects stuff during the last year. the concept of instance heads, breaking instances, and pre/post layer behavior
the concept of the drawers, and moving palettes around in and out of drawers moving around the canvas with Alt-mouse, Alt-Rmouse, Ctrl-Alt, etc. looping a character walking across the screen, or making a background pan (creating an animbrush, Keyframer FX)įor absolute beginners, the most unfamiliar thing I think is the interface and the non-standard keyboard shortcuts: cleanup and color (line smoothing, CTG layers) flipping and rolling (flips panel, light table, out-of-pegs) drawing your keys and extremes (drawing tools, timeline, image marks, library panel for model sheets) A long tutorial can be split up into parts, but if each part is a step along the way of a single project, it will be clear how each step relates to the last and how each step moves the user toward the finished result.įor each step of the traditional animation workflow, there will naturally be certain features of TVP that will be explained in the process: Project-based tutorials are helpful because they relate to real-world workflows. It's usually easier for me to get the idea with spoken language than with a strangely-phrased subtitle. If the person making the videos is not a native speaker of English, I still find it easier to understand if they narrate, even with accented and imperfect English. Subtitles are great as long as they are well-written! Otherwise they are extremely confusing. I like audio, because it helps draw my attention to what is going on, and can provide more detailed explanation of what's happening on screen than is possible with just subtitles.
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