How I Color my Animation Work

This is how I usually color my 2d animation work. This is not a software tutorial, or walkthrough video. I just share my philosophies when it comes to coloring. Also take a shot everytime I say "basic" or "basically".

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Equipment I use:

Software I use:
Animation - TVPAINT
Animation - Adobe Flash/Animate CC, ToonBoom
Compositing - After Effects
Painting and Illustration - Photoshop
Video Editing - Premiere
3D - BLENDER

[egcart]

And people still ask why studios take such a long time to make an animation

[purmello]

A really quick time-saving trick in Toon Boom is that you can actually select all lines of the currently selected colour, and then delete them, so cleanup is pretty simple.
I've even found that situationally, I can turn my brush strokes into pencil lines, fill them in, select the colour of the lineart, and then just delete it, so there's no bleed-over with softer line brushes when you have duplicates of the lineart.

[vikrant]

10:23
I searched heaven and earth to get more information about those Sakuga shading lines but never found one xD
Thanks you so much !!!

[BlissAnimations]

Compositing is a life saver. It makes even my bad animations look good.

[chomeo]

This is so helpful!! I'm working in Toon Boom and goshh I didn't know how to shade properly. Now I can use these for my videos. Thanks :D


Edit: oops accidentally put Toon "Noom"

[Nick-wztz]

AAHHH JUST OPENED TO WATCH ANIMATION TUTORIAL AND GOT UPDATE FROM YOU !

[shakeemwinn]

I can't get enough of that concept animation you did. I hope to see it as a film someday.

[animatrix]

6:07 In blender's latest version (2.93) you can do multiframe fills and inverted filling, so you can do something kind of similar the more you know

[wynstunliudraws]

Hi Toniko, Love your videos!. For Toon Boom, I think you can create a solid matte pass based on line info by going to drawing > generate auto matte ( you do have to have "support Overlay and Underlay Arts" ticked in your preferences under the "Advanced "Tab) you can also turn off the visibility of the Underlay sublayer once you're done by going into the Layers's "layer properties" > "Drawing" Tab. I hope this info helps your workflow!

[evankam]

I honestly need this for redoing my Capstone project (way later in the future w/less studies in the way). And thank you again for these videos you've made since 2018, they helped me learn and teach me so much to now. Just wanted to say that since i've been following since i discovered your channel and ig back when I was still struggling to learn on my own. And happy new year
**I hope you keep making these videos to keep encouraging aspiring animators like me

[atoaster]

Cool tutorial: A few tips for Toon Boom:
-If you're working in vector mode, enable "Automatically Create Colour Art" in your Tool Properties. Then you can just paint on the colour art layer without having to duplicate the entire layer. (NOTE: does not work with bitmap)
-To automatically create an alpha matte pass for every frame, change the Paint tool to Paint Unpainted, and enable "Apply To All Frames" in Tool Properties. Then just draw a lasso around your drawing area and you're done! Or, just click Drawing>Generate Auto-Matte and it does it in one click.

[scribblecloud]

oh it was such a big mistake to assume that more 'professional' programs would make these kinds of things less tedious 😂 (coming from firealpaca)

[felippesponton]

Thank you so much for this video, finishing my graduation film rn and you gave us the light in the end of the tunnel we needed so much!!!

[TheCineJay]

Fantastic. The timing for uploading this is impeccable. I really needed this. Tysm for sharing!

[uzelok_]

our videos are always so helpful! And I love the 90s atmosphere you do in your animations!

[ZerTactics]

I’ve been waiting so long for a video like this from someone!!! Its so hard to find a coloring and shading tutorial for animation. Thanks so much for making these. They’re incredibly helpful!!! : )

[loydeanimation]

POV: You're the best animation channel

[micmacha]

Krita technically has some pretty solid vector layer work now; you still generally have to look up things like setting the fill color after you've created a shape. I'm optimistic.

[Shadmockk]

your tutorials and animation videos are some of the most helpful that i have ever watched! you really get into what ive always wanted to know and couldnt really find elsewhere that got what i wanted

[christinekoper]

You’re so thorough and open with your work! I respect when anybody puts this much of their process online. Especially since I can’t currently afford art school!
Seriously, thank you.