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About Rodney

Cartoonist and Animator! I'd tell you more but then I'll have to debrief you.

Initial test of watercolor brush

Random watercoloring test… (Result:  Confirmed.  Rodney is not much of a watercolor painter)

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Discovered a new shortcut: the Select Tool’s Pump Tool widget

Ha!  I was looking into something else when I saw a strange artifact on my screen capture and wondered why it might be appearing. Turns out it is a feature and not a bug/defect! Go figure.

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Screen to Gif (updated)

One of my favorite programs (possibly #4 for design, implementation and potential) has been updated.  It should be a tool in any animator’s arsenal. It is only available for Windows (sorry Mac and Linux users).  You can probably run it … Continue reading →

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Mama, can I be a tiger when I grow up?

Tried out the ‘tall grass’ MyPaint brush… And without the grass…

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There’s something different about the new intern…

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Column? Layer? Row!

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Random Background sketch

A quick test of brushes and such…

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OpenToonz… MyPaint Brushes… Tons of New Stuff… Free!

Why aren’t you using OpenToonz yet?

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OpenToonz Experimental (OTX) is released

Turtletooth has release an experimental version of OpenToonz that adds a lot of great features. Here’s a quick set of doodles testing/demonstrating the Snap option when using the standard brush.  This helps to make quick work of closing those gaps … Continue reading →

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Planning Animation (Thumbnailing, etc.)

This is a page (evidently from a sketch book) attributed to Ollie Johnston. The page is currently going up for auction on Ebay with a starting bid of $200. It is hard to tell what the actual size of the … Continue reading →

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