We are happy to announce the release of OpenToonz Morevna Edition version 1.3.0, which includes a long-awaited Assistant Tool! This version also includes all features and improvements of official OpenToonz version 1.2.1 (see them listed here). The assistants feature was implemented by our developer Ivan Mahonin thanks to many people who funded development of this […]
We are happy to announce a new release of OpenToonz Morevna Edition! This version is an update to 1.2.0.x branch, which delivers following fixes from our developer Ivan Mahonin: Smooth sound playback and scrub for Linux operating system (issue #1097). Fixed crash when trying to process Toonz Vector Levels (pli) via CLI on Linux (issue […]
You possibly remember that this spring I took initiative to give a public talk about OpenToonz and other free animation software at SuzdalFest. If you’ve never heard about that, please check my previous posts here and here. Thanks to support of OpenToonz community, my talk did happened. Also, as part of that trip I’ve got […]
Dwango has announced that the 2D animation production software OpenToonz which they developed and open sourced March 2016 has been used in the production of Kamikaze Douga’s First Animated Feature Film ‘BATMAN NINJA’. Tokyo, Japan (July 12th, 2018) — Dwango Co., Ltd. has announced that the 2D animation production software “OpenToonz” which they started distributing in March 2016 as […]
A quick followup to my travel report: In collaboration with “SoyuzMultFilm” animation studio we have finished first version of “The Big Picture concept” document for Skolkovo Foundation. The concept involves development and promotion activities for OpenToonz, RenderChan, Synfig and Blender. Now we’re sending the document to foundation representatives for first review. This work collaboration is […]
Ok, I am back from my trip and ready to share some results! First of all, much thanks to everyone who sent their words of support for my initiative. It was really awesome to have that feeling of being backed by whole community. ^__^ In that travel I wasn’t alone – lead artist of Morevna […]
We’ve just released a small but important update for OpenToonz Morevna Edition. This version delivers fixes for two critical issues: Fix incorrect behavior of graphic tablets. The incorrect behavior was reported by many Windows an Linux users and this turned to be related with latest changes to the tablet code. Since this part of code […]
This tutorial shows a technique of creating automatic tweening in OpenToonz. To successfully use the auto-tweening of vector drawings, the strokes have to be in the same order and direction. The guided drawing feature is here to help you. When this option is enabled the onion skin highlights what stroke is next in order and […]
This quick tutorial shows how to create automatic animation in OpenToonz using stroke-by-stroke method. In short: make sure that you have a sequence of vector frames (or, create an empty one). Then switch to Brush Tool. On Tool Options Panel you will see a “Range” dropdown – change it to anything other than “Off” (obvious […]
I am happy to announce that the new version of OpenToonz (Morevna Edition) is available for download now! This version is based on official OpenToonz 1.2.0, which was released a one week earlier. The official version now includes our MyPaint brushes feature, so this time (in addition to full set of features of official version) […]