Author Archives: Rodney

Baron has learned to sit before he gets to eat.

This guy started life as a standin for a storyboard test. A little while later he completed the story himself so I.m thinking about telling his tale.

It took me a little while but I finally figured out where to turn on the option to have OpenToonz render a Level’s filter color and transparency which is set at the top each column in the xsheet.  This is … Continue reading →

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Started painting with MyPaint brushes and this emerged. I was mostly interested in painting the stone column but in the process of creating a background I decided to add smoke/fog. I have another version with a cartoon character emerging from … Continue reading →

An alternative use for spritesheet rendering in OpenToonz… comic strips!