One More TVPaint Cleanup

I had hamster's on my mind today because I have a freelance job designing a hamster (not this one) for an animated show and when I was on break I sketched this one for fun, decided to clean it up , so here's another demo of favorite animation/drawing app, TVPaint.

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Next I drop out the blue underdrawing and this is the final
clean up image on TVPaint , ready to be colored :

I've also been playing around with a freeware app called DELINEATE , which auto-traces bitmap images to vector (SVG)  which can them be opened up in Illustrator for further work as an Illustrator file (and thence imported to Flash).  I'm having pretty good results from DELINEATE as shown in the next two images, showing the drawing above (from TVPaint)  vectorized by DELINEATE and then opened in Illustrator.

(this was auto-traced in Delineate , no further tweaking by me )

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Here's a stab at coloring it , done with TVPaint .

Comments

[kevin barber]

Very cool demo. I'm curious as to the differences in this program vs Painter, Photoshop, or Flash.

[David N]

Kevin,

The main difference between TVPaint and something like Photoshop or Painter is that TVPaint is a set of drawing and painting tools (like Photoshop) attached to an animation system, so there is a timeline or an exposure sheet for organizing/timing the drawings. TVPaint also has EFX nodes like particle generators and the ability of do effects and motion graphics with text over imported live action footage. There is a keyframer and multiplane camera node to do camera moves.

[kevin barber]

wow. Sounds like all 3 Adobe programs with After Effects combined. I'll try the demo. Thanks Dave

[richardjgaines]

I really dig your character design. It has a sketchy roughness to it that splatters the character with personality. I will link your blog! Keep posting!

[Mikko]

Hi!
Superb link this delineate. I have test it as soon as possible with my TV paint drawings. Thanks for sharing!

M.

[Aleeptandrow]

you krazee wizz kid! hahaha! you keep amazing the multitudes eh?