Easy cut-out animation in OpenToonz (using the skeleton tool) - Puppet animation

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Gotta say this is the best series I have found on the internet on the subject! The universe will bless you for your kindness brother - THAT'S A DARREN T!

I rarely leave comments on videos like these but holy crap the gratitude and motivation I got from watching this video skyrocketed
I've been super down about making puppet rigs in opentoons because all of the tutorials I watched seemed super complex, even with the knowledge I had on it (which was very little), and because of that I almost dropped it in search for a better (free) alternative that would suit me, which was kinda degrading because I really liked hiw opentoonz felt. HOWEVER, your tutorial gave me the motivation to reinstall and pick up opentoonz again, at least one last time, so thanks for that :) let's hope things go well!

I like the tip about connecting one column to another instead of using the skeleton! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with in the future!

Thank you for this great tutorial. I can’t wait to use what I’ve just learned in my future animations. 😎

Love your lessons, but would like to see bigger and highlighted pointer to easily see and follow where the commands are that you are activating. Thank you for your tutoring good stuff Cheers

I have been looking for a video like this for days. Thank you

Thank you so much for this and all your tutorials. Many other how-tos assume too much and leave me standing. You have not forgotten that what you now take for granted is unknown to the needy viewer at all levels. My movie is easier to make now and much better too. Please keep up the OT tutes!

Fantastic tutorial, you deserve more subscribers, thank you for making these videos

Thank you for this educational and entertaining video.

Great tutorial! Thank you!

Thank you for this video

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!!! It is very very useful. Please keep posting

Great tutorial, man.

this is so cute!!

Aaaand bookmarked for refrence!

I have been looking for a tool to use for cut-out animation for while.
I already have the drawings I need for my characters and interactive scenery. Not animated, but I got all the different states of the parts (facial expressions, and such).
Up to now, I have used a mass of layers of image keys in my video editor (Lightworks) to do the job. That's not exactly ideal, as I can't parent the parts, and can't rotate individual parts. So animation had to be VERY limited.


The main limitations, where that whatever I was gonna use, it had to run on Linux, and be free, or at least affordable.
After several false starts with Blender, Synfig, Unity3D*, Mine-imator, and a few other programs, I found Opentoonz.
Now I just hope I can get what I need with this tool.
* (Yes, really. I'm a programmer, so I tried to make my own custom software for the job. Almost worked too. Almost.)

I just started looking though tutorials. All those I have seen so far, has been on setting up the ui (very useful) and how to draw (not very applicable for me).
This is the first that have shown what I need to get started.
I only hope this tutorial still fully applies to the current version. Uh well, guess I'm about to find out.

Wish me luck!

Thx

WOW Man!

Make eyeblink animation with this process

Hi. Thank you for all your videos. Please do video about track tool in opentoonz