Author Archives: Rodney

I’m troubleshooting/gap checking and trying to improve workflow. This guy/gal represents an issue with quickly laying down line work that doesn’t easily fill with color.

One of the first posts on this blog pointed to Leonardo Da Vinci as an early pioneer of animation.  I still stand by that assessment. In that post I pointed to the sequence of poses from Leonardo’s notebooks that sketch … Continue reading →

The latest Motion Monster has been released! Turtletooth Studios cutting edge branch of the powerful OpenToonz animation software is a welcome addition with features not yet incorporated into the official OpenToonz branch. This latest release is primarily designed to provide a … Continue reading →

So I was…doodling… then I started blurring things… then this came out of the Motion Monster renderer:  

Here courtesy of legendary Disney animator Andreas Deja is a frame from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that I’ve used OpenToonz to clean up and color.  I’m tempted to work the entire sequence for the practice (and to demonstrate the benefits of … Continue reading →

    MotionMonster is a byproduct of OpenToonz brought to you by the ever prolific Turtletooth, maker of the portable release of OpenToonz.  It brings some features forward that aren’t included in the primary release of OpenToonz.  No huge changes … Continue reading →

Some great additions are in this latest update to OpenToonz.  Well worth downloading installing and putting to work: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/releases/tag/v1.1.0   And a new portable version that builds off that is available too! https://github.com/turtletooth/OpenToonzPortable/releases/tag/v1.1

  Turtletooth has posted another Feature Release of the portable version of OpenToonz. Included are a variety of improvements to include: Ability to have multiple project roots Updated autosave settings Additional resolution presets Fixes for pixels only mode Ctrl+Alt for … Continue reading →

On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your experience with your 2D animation software? I can think of one software in particular that is a pleasure to use.  

Well, not entirely random.  In this case it’s 761-167… or is it? These guys always fascinated me as a kid. The Beagle Boys were all basically carbon copies of each other and yet each had his own personality.  That is … Continue reading →