Who done it ?
Another digital drawing messing around with TVPaint . I promise I'm working up to something more substantial, but from time to time I just have these little sketches that turn out looking pretty nice (to me) and I have no where else to post them, so they turn up here.
Love the ink work! And the color is a lot of fun. Great work, as usual!
Posted by: Tim | Monday, January 07, 2008 at 02:23 PM
Hi David! Just read your comment over on my blog, and yes, it is confirmed that Disney is going 100 percent paper on "Princess". It's a major victory, but I know they still are developing their own software for the next films.
Posted by: Matt Williames | Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 01:47 PM
Cool David! You keep making TvPaint look better and better. Do you do clean up in that with a vector line? or is it pixel pushing like in Photoshop?
Posted by: Scotland Barnes | Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 07:32 PM
I love this whole TV Paint and digital clean-up craze, looks fantastic. Would love to see some more of your traditional clean-up!!
Great work, keep it up!
Sarah
Posted by: Sarah | Friday, January 18, 2008 at 09:34 AM
Scotland-
TVPaint is a bitmap application, so yeah, it's pixel pushing, not vector.
If vector is desired for the final line art it is possible to export the clean up drawings from TVPaint to something like ToonBoom and use the "Import & Vectorize" function in ToonBoom to vectorize the line art .
Posted by: David N | Monday, January 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Nice stuff Dave! Love the expression!
Posted by: Rob | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 04:39 PM
David, you were right, TVpaint has a DIVINE brush tool, IT-IS-GLORIOUS! Layers are working great, layer restrictions are amazing, this program *sniffs* i all an animator and sketch artist would ever want...Aside from the moving around the screen which can be a hassle if not well shortcutted, that program is so, sooooo sweet.
Yet ill still have to try a demo of toonboom 4 or digital and Digicel flipbook. Have you had a chance to toy around with them?
Posted by: Mokuu | Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Dave, come on! Post some new work! I love it!!!
Posted by: Richard Gaines | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 07:59 PM
Hallo, I can't find you other website. I like you read my blog. It'about animation and visual arts, too.
Marco Milone
http://mellart.blogspot.com
Posted by: Marco Milone | Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 02:32 PM
Hi David,
Thanks for you comment! You have some really inspiring and beautiful work here. I really hope to work in 2D feature one day... Also I like the way TVPaint draws as you've shown, I will have to try it for my next animation!
Posted by: Lauren Andersson | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 07:24 AM
Your drawings are really cool, but I just wondered how you get such smooth lines in TVPaint? I Have a Cintiq tablet and am experimenting with TVPaint but can't get my lines as beautifully clean as yours!
Posted by: Andy | Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 08:13 PM
nothing more substantial still? ;-)
Posted by: Olivier L. | Monday, March 03, 2008 at 07:48 PM
Sorry, Oliver .
Best laid plans have gone astray ...
Not enough hours in the day.
I'm doing some online teaching to earn my daily bread and I had an extra class this semester that's keeping me busier than usual. It's fun , but not something that I was totally prepared for , so it's kept me playing catch-up for the first couple of months .
Geez, I haven't posted here in a long time ... I should put something up .
(guilt, guilt , guilt ... )
Posted by: David N | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Andy wrote:
" just wondered how you get such smooth lines in TVPaint? I Have a Cintiq tablet and am experimenting with TVPaint but can't get my lines as beautifully clean as yours!"
Hi, Andy,
I guess I would have to say that I've practiced a lot with the Cinitq and with TVP . The learning curve was a little bit steep . Took me a while . The main thing I do is work at 2k film resolution and for clean-ups I'll zoom in close on lines to be able to lay down a really smooth line . I also use the rotating "virtual disc" feature in TVP a lot so I can turn the drawing to comfortable drawing angles while I'm drawing my clean up lines.
Sorry, that's not very specific . Practice, practice, practice , is what it comes down to I suppose.
Posted by: David N | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:47 PM
I love the characters you have. You've inspired me to want to try cleaning up one of my animated pieces. Are you working with a Cintiq or a Wacom?
Posted by: sabrina Cecchini | Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 03:13 PM
cute character!
Posted by: Alina | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 05:39 PM
Hi Sabrina,
You asked what tablet I'm using : it's a Cintiq tablet. Application is TVP Animation. I also use ArtRage2 . Sometimes when I'm away from my studio I also use an Intous 3 tablet.
Posted by: David N | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 08:24 AM