Pencil 2D [Free Animation Software][Tutorial Deluxe Edition]

what's up everybody Ryan here thank you for joining me again I wanted to just take a moment before we get started to give a special shout out to all of you who've been watching these videos who've been leaving comments who've been leaving critiques cuz that you know that it really means a lot and it really helps me to make my content better and that's why I'm here I'm here to help and I'm here to make great content for you so I've been spending a lot of time reading those comments I've been spending a lot of time in pencil 2d over the past three weeks since I started making these videos and also been spending a lot of time chatting with the pencil 2d devs let me just stop again for a minute and give a special shout-out to those developers because men making a program is is not easy work and I think they're doing a really great job they're putting it a lot of time they're not getting paid anything I want to give you my heartfelt thanks it's really nice to have a free piece of software that's as simple as pencil that I can direct people to who are just trying to get their foot in the door with animation and don't want to focus on you know trying to learn some incredibly complex programs so thanks again guys a lot of you are just out there you're trying to get started with pencil t2d and you're looking for a place where you can just get all the answers you need to go ahead and use the program effectively until now what I've been doing is what I've been I've been learning the program myself and - I am actually actively working on a project and the tutorial side of this came was kind of like a an afterthought I thought well you know since I'm learning it why not share my knowledge with everybody else my videos have been sort of a six minutes of six seven minutes of you know here's a bunch of information followed by seven or eight more minutes of you know watching me draw and go through my own process I think that's cool and all and if you guys want you can always go back and watch those I do throw out some little bit of you know tidbits of information while I'm drawing not necessarily related to pencil 2d but for those of you who are just here to get some quick answers and get on with your own project I am now going to sit down and do a a 15 minute pencil 2d speedrun where I'm just gonna go through every feature that I know of in that program I'm gonna explain it as best as I can and wrap all that stuff up into a video for all of you to hopefully enjoy and learn from yeah well enough about all that pencil 2d tutorial speedrun deluxe edition coming right up alright ladies and gentlemen welcome to the pencil 2d tutorial speedrun tonight and I'm gonna go through all the features that I can possibly think of in pencil 2d I'm gonna do my best to provide this information within a practical context framework instead of just kind of listing everything I see in front of me but I am gonna start out by talking about the UI and what's in here up top here you have your file menu for those of you who are used to using pretty much a computer this should be pretty familiar to you this is where you can open your files you'll find all your menus for editing things creating layers and all that good stuff over here is your tool bar if you didn't know all the toolbars can be torn out and moved around I believe they're using QT for the UI which allows for docking in different areas of the UI so you can adjust this UI to suit your needs down here we have your option so every tool you select or most tools you select are gonna have some set of options to to edit here over on the right-hand side we have the color wheel where you pick your colors pretty awesome and then we have our color palette and this is where you can save your custom colors down here you have your display panel and this is just where you're gonna control your onion skinning your your line visible or invisibility and and you can get the things like you know flipping your image horizontal or vertically you can also change your onion skin Ian's onion skinning colors Wow I can talk great down below we have your timeline your timeline is where you can access your layers you see three major kinds of layers right now you've got bitmap vector and camera layers you can also add a sound layer to this and your timeline this is basically we're gonna do all of your animations so you can set keyframes in here using this plus sign remove them using minus or duplicate a keyframe using this plus with something on it I'm not sure what that is we can access the onion skinning we can go to the start or the end frame we can play we can set loop and we can set it a link arrange for our loop so if we only wanted to do part of the animation we can do that here you can turn sound on and off and you can also set your frames per second generally I've been using 12 frames per second film will use you know 24 or 30 frames per second and then modern cameras are even pushing that to 60 or 90 or 120 frames per second or more alright with that out of the way let's just dive a little deeper into some of the things we can do here so obviously we can open a scene or create a new scene open a recent scene save or save our scene as something else I recommend doing that often your backups in case your file gets corrupted or something we can import so let's start with importing an image now we might want to import an image if we wanted to have a background for our animation so the first thing I would do is come down here to the timeline create a new bitmap layer we could call this background just like so and then we can import an image into here so I'll go to file import image make sure that bitmap layer is selected you want to make sure that your image goes to the right place and actually I think right now I don't have it selected you can tell because of the slight slightly lighter gray color that the selected layer turns so backing it up importing an image I'll grab this guy here that says please subscribe not that I'm not I'm not trying to you know I mean it's just it's just it's the image I had that's all cool what else can we do with the file menu we can import an image sequence so let's say that we wanted to have some images in here for reference or rotoscoping we could go ahead and do that so I'm gonna go ahead and create another new bitmap layer I'll just call this something like sequence and then I'll make sure I select that layer and I have an image sequence that I can import you're simply gonna want to hit browse you want to make sure you select all of your images there is no option that just says you know image sequence so you have to be very explicit and say these are the images I want go ahead and open that this option here will let you import an image every X number of frames so in this case I'm just going to I'm going to put an image and a keyframe on every frame I could skip a frame and so if I one like if I had a 12 frame per second image sequence and I was doing 24 frames per second animation I could go ahead and double up and set this number to 2 and every other keyframe it's gonna create I'm sorry every other frame is gonna create a keyframe and then slap an image on there I'll just set this to 1 for now hit OK it likes to ask if you want to save things it's polite that way and there we go we got our image sequence in place there we can also import gifts if we wanted to so in my rotoscoping tutorial series i do go into more detail you can import a gif and i'll show you how to create a gif from pretty much any video that you can get your hands on we can also import a sound oh yes so it's gonna it's going to let me know when i go to import a sound that i have to create a sound layer it'll just go ahead and do that for me I can even if I wanted to and then I will get the what should I pick what should I pick quick quick quick how about part two there we go fart toot it is and now we have our audio right here in our timeline we could drag that audio around if we wanted to and change up when it starts and ends and then we could turn that audio on and off of course using this this button right here and if I were to play that you would hear a fart too but unfortunately I'm not capturing my computer sounds at this time sorry alright what else we got a file import is pretty much cleaned up we're just gonna go into palettes a little bit there's a neat palette trick you can do with pencil 2d this was my hack because I didn't see a way to remove items from my palette over here so what I did is I go up to file export and I actually export a palette and I created this test palette here on my desktop the cool thing about palettes is they are written in an XML file format which means you can edit them in a text editor and we'll just go ahead and replace that so if I were to open that file up now in a some sort of text editor and for this I'm just using my notepad here you don't need anything fancy I can go in here and take all these lines and just delete them when I do this I want to make sure I clean up that empty space that might happen that way we're not breaking the format of the XML although it should be fine and all I'm left with now is black so I'm going to save this now come back in to pencil TD go to my file menu import and I will import a palette I'll find that test palette open it up and you'll see here on the right all you have left is black this is cool now you can start from here to create your own custom palette if you wanted to you can easily add colors by hitting this plus and that's gonna let you pick colors from here too using your animation all right hopping back over to the file menu so we already exported a pallet if we wanted to export a movie go ahead and hit that we can browse to our file and this will let us save our movie somewhere on the desktop if you want to save it as something other than mp4 you do have the option of saving as an avi or a gif file and all you have to do is click this save as type drop-down and then I'll give you those options I'll go ahead and do an mp4 it's save it's gonna give me this window here I can pick the camera that I want to export I can also change these dimensions now generally I'm doing 1080 and by 720 and I can pick my start and end frame so I can just say to the end of the sound clip by default it's going to look for like the last keyframe in your scene and set that as the end frame so I'll just hit OK it's gonna start exporting my movie shouldn't take very long BAM movie made should I open it yes I would love to open that movie I'm sure it's awesome and then it opens up your your movie file here little jittery there we go if I press play again it seems to clear that up awesome what else can we export well we can export an image sequence if we wanted to composite our animation that we're getting out of pencil 2d may want to composite that in another program like Adobe After Effects we could also just export a still image we can also print from here or just exit the program from within the file menu we go over to edit and that's where we can access our undo cut copy paste clear frame we can flip our selection so if we were to select select this cat for instance we could go here to edit selection flip X and that'll just flip our cat in the x-axis or the y-axis if we do select Y let's see we can select all which is gonna just select everything that we can currently see in our scene can deselect all and these all have hotkeys associated with them I recommend picking those up I'm sure everyone here knows cut copy and paste by now as well as undo a select all is just ctrl a deselect all is ctrl D and then we can hop into our Preferences menu from the Edit menu as well and there's some pretty cool stuff in here so we can pick our system language if you're not speaking English I apologized that I don't speak your language I would love to have all these like translated actually that would be super cool if anyone wants to volunteer I will leave the video open to that for you so we can also change the opacity of our overall window and this is really neat if you wanted to pull some reference in there we go so we can see in the background now my desktop and all my little icons and I can go ahead and do some tracing right over that image if I wanted to you can turn on shadows which is just nice visual sort of you know shadow box is your main drawing palette can turn on tool cursors which is going to add more ikana fied look to your cursor in this case I have a paintbrush if I were to turn that off I just get the arrows around not the arrows but the little target crosshairs let's call them crosshairs I can have the dotted cursor on or off and that is the area around here which is going to show the width of my brush interesting point if you hold down shift and then hold down your left mount mouse button it will change the brush size if you hold down and get control and do the same thing you can change the feathering of your brush so you see that outer ring is now changing size yeah back into our preferences you can change up your backgrounds you can have this nice you know grid look transparent look which is not showing any background color you can turn on white you can pick a nice gray you can get this dotted look which i think is pretty cool it should help you if you're just trying to do really precise a detail work to figure out relationships or you can turn on this paper texture which I like for just quick hand-drawn animations you can turn on the anti-aliasing which is essentially going to try to bleed out the edges of everything a bit to make it look a little nicer and smoother vector curve smoothing and this will just smooth out the overall vector curves in your scene I the vector implementation in pencil 2d is very much a work in progress so a lot of these things might not function well or at all just something to keep in mind we'll talk about that a little more as we get into the vector layers and then tablet high-resolution position I actually have absolutely no idea what that does if anyone can tell me I'd love to know I haven't seen any difference and then if we have a grid turned on we can change the grid size here or just turn the grid off so if we go into files we can enable autosave it'll look at the number of actions before it tries to autosave and this clear button will just clear your history or I'm sorry it'll clear your recently open files which might free up a little bit of memory I'm assuming this is mostly a dev feature just to debug things a little bit here we have timeline options so this is just going to control the size of your frames down here in the bottom old people like me like to turn them up big so we can see them well but if you're getting a lot of frames and it's becoming a pain to kind of scrub up and down this timeline you can shrink those your timeline size and frames is really just inputting an offset value to the UI elements down here to make them smaller or larger and it's uh it's not terribly noticeable but it's there if you want it and short scrub that is how I'm getting this nice red cursor to show up over my scrubber so if we go into tools we can turn up or down the maximum and minimum onion skin opacity percentage we can also determine how many frames we want to see before and after so right now I have it set to one the onion skin is on and you can see the next frame and the previous frame I could continue to crank these up until I can see more or less frames you use quick sizing that is that option I just showed you where you hold shift or alt to control the size of your brush you can turn it off here for some reason so there if you need it and then we get down into these shortcuts and here you can just look at or edit all of your shortcuts so one of the things to do if you're really trying to learn pencil 2d is one start learning the shortcuts but two you can often time to look in a menu like this and discover things that you didn't know we're features within the program because there's a hotkey for it so it's not a bad idea to spend a little time in here customize these as you like or at least become familiar with them moving right along to the View menu so we can reset all our windows this will change this will reset if we do some scaling or zooming in our windows we can reset the zoom and rotate so this is great if you hit Z that will spin your canvas right or to the left if you press R it'll spin it to the right or clockwise this mimics the old-style glass drawing tables where the animators could actually spin the table around this will just help you to get a better angle on your drawing and you can also flip your canvas horizontally or vertically that's shift H and shift B so we'll try the hotkeys out here shape date and you see I can flip it around like that shift V up and down like this that might help you get a better angle or just kind of you know get to that upside down faster than not getting are over and over again another way to access our good another way to access our onion skin as well super handy hotkey for the onion skin it's good to know is oh and control oh I'm sorry I cannot stop pressing control oh it's alt oh all OH don't press control Oh everyone so those are super useful you're gonna be using your onion skins all the time and if we look up here you'll see that oh is your previous and alt Oh is your next frame you can turn on multi layer onion skinning as well which will onion skin all of the layers so the animation menu basically just let you access all the stuff you can access down on the timeline like play and loop and all those good things most likely you'll just be using the timeline and can forget about this menu if you want to move a frame forward that is accessible up here and is also accessible with this hotkey plot ctrl + comma or ctrl + period and so yeah basically these are all accessible down here so I would just I end up using this more than anything else I like to work from one place or you know use those hotkeys here you can access your tools again and you'll probably never look at this as well unless you decide you want to shut down your tools window what you can do by just clicking that X and if you need to you can grab you know your tools up here instead or just use the hotkeys to switch between them you can also reset all your tools to default you can create new layers up here in the layer menu again something you'll probably end up doing from the timeline but these are accessible here if for some reason you're hiding your timeline and then windows and this is where you can get your tools back by clicking on that you can turn all the windows on and off and you can lock down your windows in case you're afraid you're going to accidentally edit them the help menu will let you get to the pencil 2d website basically takes you to a couple different pages depending on which of these links you click if you report a bug it's going to take you to get where the developers are currently writing the code for the program and will send you to a place where you can report a bug to them and about is just going to tell you what you're running and all that kind of good stuff and here we see that we are in fact using QT for the UI here let's just jump down here into the timeline and check out some of the stuff we can do down here so as we saw we could drag an audio file around you can also do this with keyframes you can select them as such you can drag across them if you hold down shift or you can just click them one by one and then you can add to that selection with control then you can click and hold down on those select frames and move them wherever you like if we go over here we select a frame we can hit this duplicate frame button and that will just make an exact copy of your frame so if you want to do some kind of hold or just build off of that previous image you can do that right there your play button is located right here so you can go ahead and play your animation right now it's playing to the end of my audio which maybe is not necessarily what I want I can hit this range button and just set this here to frame thirty eight and now when I play that it only plays my selection if I wanted to I can loop this like so we can go back to the first frame head up to the last frame using these two buttons here and that's pretty much the timeline everybody if we move over to the left here we'll see our layers panel we can hit this plus button to create a new layer the minus button to delete a layer so let's just talk about the different kinds of layers and what they're for and then we can move into our tool panel and see how they interact with the different sorts of layers first off you can see here these gray circles these allow you to hide your layer so if I wanted to hide the cat I can just click that button there you'll see we have a sound layer this is of course where sound goes easy to remember these are bitmap layers sequence background and bitmap layer are all bitmap later and this is for drawing bitmaps so basically a bitmap is looking at my screen and saying okay his resolution is 1080 by 720 which means I can draw a 720 720 pixels up and down and ten hundred and eighty across when you use a bitmap it's essentially just picking the colors for all of those for all those pixels in contrast you have a vector layer and now a vector is taking two points in space and drawing a line or a vector between those two points this means that when you draw a line it can be scaled up without losing any resolution and I'm going to demonstrate that in a bit when I get into the tools then we have our camera layer and a camera layer can well it contains a camera and you can keyframe that camera so here we see a keyframe on the first frame of this camera layer if we were to move down here a little bit if you are finding that you cannot move your camera it's because you don't have a keyframe set yet so I have to go over here to plus and add a keyframe control mouse wheel will zoom in and out here we can grab our hand tool and we can move things around and what that's gonna do is then provide us with an animated camera so you see the background is reacting as if the camera is zooming in on those on those images if you want to you can always come in here select a keyframe and delete it if you wanted to get rid of that motion on the camera for instance we can do this with the remove frame button looks like a minus sign and we do need to make sure we're over the frame unfortunately there we go and by default it just sets a keyframe at the beginning of the camera later when I delete if there's no keyframes in the scene all right I think that pretty much covers the timeline as well we're gonna go ahead now and just move into tools and talk about how these different layers interact with those tools so as I mentioned we have a bitmap layer and I'll just go ahead and select the one called my player I have a keyframe set here and what I can do is grab my brush I'll go ahead and paint on that layer and as you see why don't we zoom in I'm gonna grab this hand tool so I can move this around when we zoom in we can see those pixels this is going to be different with vectors so if we were to select our vector layer we can still take our brush it's gonna draw this thick line but when we let go it's gonna turn into this thin line but you see as i zoom in I'm not losing resolution because it's simply drawing a line in between multiple points in this case now I would like to just take a moment here to say that the developers have implemented vectors into pencil 2d my understanding is that somewhere around version 5 they recalled them and that implementation in version 0.6 is not all the way there so vectors are pretty limited at the moment and I will dive into that a little deeper as we keep playing with the different vector tools alright so if I select this arrow this is gonna be my move tool and this is going to let me move objects so oftentimes we're gonna be using that in tandem with this select tool that's hotkey is B so let's get our select tool let's grab our bitmap layer let's get this lovely red blob I made we can then select our move tool hitting M and we can move our red blob around the screen let's say we wanted to clear a frame where we have the clear frame button here we can erase everything in the current frame by pressing that I'll just hit control Z to undo that in case I want to use my red blob again here we have our paintbrush which we've already used this is just your standard brush it does have features for width and feather you can choose whether or not to use the feathering and you can also enable pressure sensitivity if you're using a Wacom tablet I'm currently using a Wacom 21 UX old model and it likes to turn off on me now every once in awhile so if anyone knows how to solve that please let me know it's driving me absolutely insane here you have stabilization we can turn this on and this will just help you draw a smoother line so you can have simple interpolation or strong line interpolation which is basically as it says one will work a little harder than the other to keep those lines straight alright so here we have a polyline tool and this is just gonna help you to draw straight lines if you're terrible at drawing straight lines it's also a vector tool so you see I just picked a vector point in the scene essentially and now I'm going to pick the next one by clicking over here and I can just continue to do this until I hit enter and that will complete my line so here we have our pen tool and this is just gonna draw a lines like this if you are using it on a bitmap layer though it is creating bitmaps not vectors so again the implementation of the vector tools unfortunately are a good bit limited right now in pencil 2d and here we have our hand tool which we've already looked at just lets you move your canvas around if you need to get to a different area of your drawing we've got our pencil tool you can hit end to access the pencil tool very similar to the brush really it's a little more controlled I find and when you're using pressure sensitivity you got your paint bucket tool so if we were to come up here and grab like a brush or a pencil we could draw some circle here grab our paint bucket tool and go ahead and fill in our circle and you do see that I've got this white line around there we can mess with that by messing with our color tolerance and kind of turn that down a bit or up a bit and see that's a little too much we generally end up with this sort of blobby thing going on here with this is all very solid and you have this opacity here but I did paint with a less opaque brush so that does make sense all right we got our I drew per tool that'll just let you quickly pick colors in your scene you can't access that tool with I then we have our eraser tool again this has the width and feather options you can turn feather on or off pressure on or off anti-aliasing again is just going to treat your edges with a little more care and try to do some blending and stabilization is available here as well there we go can erase lots of stuff with the eraser tool so a little bit more about vectors and vector layers I'm going to turn off this bitmap layer just to make it less crowded so here we have our vector layer and I can use any of these tools here once I'm on a vector layer as you see it doesn't change the thickness you always just get that sort of you know one pixel thick line here if you want to edit this after drawing it you can use your smudge tool so we can come in here hit the smudge tool and as soon as we click on our vector line it's gonna show us all the points by hover over one that point turns red I can click on it hold down and drag that about there is no access to Bezier handles which means I cannot come in here and change this curvature [Music] using Bezier handles if you're familiar with those it would basically let me just change this curvature or this curvature by adjusting those handles so that is pretty much all that you can do with the vector tool is just draw the lines you get one line and unfortunately you can't even use the paint bucket tool if I were to draw a vector circle the paint bucket tool won't fill that I know they are working on vector I've been I've been speaking to the some of the developers and that is a thing on their radar but again there's just a few few people working hard trying to make some free software so I got to cut them a little bit of slack alright one more thing here I did I forgot to point out about this select tool so if you grab the Select tool or hit viii make a selection in your scene you notice that you can move this around I don't even need to go over here and select the move tool I can just start moving things if you wanted to rotate you can just click anywhere inside of this box while holding down control and then just start dragging your mouse while holding down your left mouse button you can drag left and right and that'll rotate this object do you want to scale your object you can hold down shift you can grab one of these corners and then scale that object as you please so there you go you got all your moving you've got control for rotation shift for scale and then nothing just to move it around on a victor layer everything is going to be vector all these tools here the pencil is going to work the Pens going to work but it does however shrink this giant line is a little more realistic down to a small line poly tool will work you can use that to draw your points and this doing some funky stuff there you can use your pen tool it all works as expected except that it draws these thin lines the most part I just avoid vectors personally inside a pencil 2d I come in here because it's free and it it's so simple and it just lets you do quick hand-drawn animations if we select a bitmap layer again will turn this layer back on if we can use our pencil tool here we can use our paint bucket tool on a bitmap layer we can use our pen tool and is there a lot of difference between these tools not necessarily but here they are you get what you get and you don't get upset right isn't that what they say far as I can tell that is pretty much everything you need to know to really be rockin inside a pencil TD if there's anything I missed just let me know and I will try to cover that either on our website at media resonate comm I often post expansions to the tutorial videos I do there so go ahead and check it out I'm also planning on some other fun things in the future to happen on that site hopefully that was helpful everybody if you like this content show your support please subscribe like the video leave a comment if you think there's something I can improve or if you just want to give me a shout-out share the video around and I will catch you next time bye hold onto your hold onto your underpants because it could get a little bumpy you know now that's terrible I can't do that take three doesn't do anything and then let's just talk about the different kinds of layers and what they do and then we'll move into

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Length: 35min 21sec (2121 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2018