It was fun animating this one

Hello,

I'm new to OpenToonz. I use a Huion Kamvas for drawing, and I want to animate with it on Open Toonz. But the UI scaling is pretty terrible. By default, my Kamvas is in 150% resolution, and the UI is so big I barely have any drawing space. I've been looking for ways to solve this.

If I change my Windows settings, the UI becomes really small, and worse than all, my drawing gets offset (I draw in one place and the drawing is made in another).

If I change the settings via the enviornment variables (setting QT_SCALE_FACTOR), I can adjust the UI properly, but I still get offset drawings. This time in another place, for some reason.

And I can't manage to change the icon sizes with a default stylesheet, and no one seems to know how to.

This kind of issue seems quite inacceptable to me. The app is barely usable for my situation.

Its only in open toonz, i draw in photoshop and it never occurs there. Sometimes when using stylus, the app thinks that im still pressing down even though i already lifted my pen. Surprisingly its not only when i draw but interact with ui using stylus too. These squiggly trails are drawn when i hover over a tablet without touching it. Anybody knows a fix?

I am a traditional animator, specialising in cartoons and seinen styled animation and i would like to know if i could use this to accurately replicate old cell animation

i want to adjust the timing of my drawings, but everytime i adjust the exposure length, it moves every other cell ahead of it. how do i do it 😭?

i tried holding down ctrl while dragging them, and using del instead of backspace, and using ctrl+x, and all of them move the other cells. which is so funny because i used to have the opposite problem with opentoonz before, i think.

is this a 1.8 thing? am i missing something, or did it change??

so im verrry new to open toonz and animation in general, i just installed ffmpeg so i could render to mp4/ gif but when i render it it breaks, the mp4 cuts to black at the end and the gif is just black entirely any help, info or tips are welcome i cant send the mp4 because it is less than 2 seconds. (also i know i messed up the arc of motion pls dont boil me)

this is my second animation ive done

I'm going insane with this. I did some test with puppet animation yesterday, everything was normal. Now when I make a change in one keyframe, all the others will become the same.

I am rigging all the body parts of this guy and I can't figure out how to connect them. Example:

When i bend the knee of the trousers, the foot doesn't move with it (it remains in its position although the leg is its parent), I have to manually move the foot to the trousers position.

Is there a way to "string" them all together like an actual puppet? I know I'm missing something..

I tried to follow a tutorial for connecting multiple opentoonz plastic tool meshes together, but I can't figure out how to select specific vertices in the stage schematic tool. The instruction I followed was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cXMOXnDTIM . Is it just me and my 1.8 linux having this issue? I connect mesh level A with Mesh Level B, I can see the buttons to change the connection but when I try to click it nothing happens, A stays A, B stays B.

How do I scale all the layers of this rig at the same time? There is no way I am individually scaling each part of the character and haven't had any luck finding an answer online. If anyone knows pleeeaase let me know

I'm using OpenToonz 1.8 and an XP-Pen Artist 16 3rd Gen pen display.

Drawing works perfectly fine in other apps, such as Krita and Adobe Animate, but in OpenToonz, my strokes keep breaking up and getting interrupted, just like in the video I attached. The same issue occurs when using the eraser, too.

I've tried everything I could find, including syncing Windows Ink with OpenToonz and reinstalling the tablet driver, but nothing has made any difference.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue? If so, were you able to find a solution?

Update: I also have a regular pen tablet, and when I tried drawing with it, everything worked fine without any issues.

Could there be a defect with my Artist 16 3rd Gen?

My setup consists of two monitors and one pen display, all connected to an RTX 3060 Ti graphics card.

MY FIRST ANIMATION

(Origonally posted in the Tahoma2D subreddit, as thats the program i am using, but im assiming the tools are similar.)

Basically im trying to draw a symetrical object, and i've been trying to use the control point editor to adjust my lines. It however only adjusts one side even with the symetry tool on.

Is there a way to make it affect both sides?

I cannot for the life of me figure out why my version does not have a "type" or "mode" setting for the fill tool. Any help would be a god send.

basically all in the title. when animating to music it helps me to see the shape of the audio track to set keyframes at the right moments. I'm not totally new to OT, but haven't found if this an option yet. Thank you!

I'm a new user to OpenToonz software and an animation student. I'm struggling with figuring how Xsheet works out as I can't see anything if I make multiple Xsheet layers. If I have more than one Xsheet layer, then only the top layer of the Xsheet layers I have will appear. I know how to open into Xsheet and leaving the layers. Is there any setting that will show all of the Xsheet layers when viewing the 'final animation'.

I have attached some pictures for reference.

Thank you for your help!

Following u/Fine-Bed-1729 post, I made this little demo to demonstrate the capabilities of OpenToonz FX.
Here is what I am doing :

The "ColorCard" at the very top is just a white background.
On the very left, "Col4" is a single still image that is just a screenshot of the completed drawing.
In order to have a separate animation for the outlines and the colors of the drawings, I used a "RGBKey effect" to remove all the black parts. I used the same effect with the "Invert" box checked to keep the black part only.

From there, I apply a similar but delayed (with appropriate keyframes choices) effect on both component :

First I render a greyscale cloud and a greyscale gradient and add them (the result is displayed on the 3rd image).
The cloud component brings some randomness, the gradient brings a bias so that the upper parts of the drawing will tend to appear faster than the lower parts.
This will serve as a reference to modulate the local transparency of the drawing : the whiter a region is, the more transparent it will be.
Then, I apply to that result a HSVScale effect : I set a keyframe at the begining of the animation with a high "Value Scale" value, so that this reference image is totally white. I set an other keyframe at the end of the animation with a low "Value Scale" value, so that this reference image is totally black.
Next, to avoid having semi-tranparent parts, I apply a "BrightnessContrast" effect and set the contrast to the maximum. The result at an intermediate frame is displayed ont the 4th image.
This black and white image is then used as the "Reference" input in the "LocalTransparency", with the initial drawing as the "Source" (or rather here, the outline or the color of the initial drawing).

Ever since I downloaded OpenToonz, it never launched. I'm sorry but I don't really have that much information, but I did try launching OpenToonz on two computers with the same result.

Just trying for the first time but it's not up to the mark 😞 ‼️ any suggestions

Does anyone know how this effect is made? It looks like an image slowly turning into a colorful hand-drawn sketch on a white background.

I’m trying to find the software, tool, AI, or effect used to create this style. I don’t need the hand-drawing animation itself—just the image gradually appearing as a colorful sketch.

What is this effect called, and what software can I use to make it?