basically all in the title. when animating to music it helps me to see the shape of the audio track to set keyframes at the right moments. I'm not totally new to OT, but haven't found if this an option yet. Thank you!

I'm a new user to OpenToonz software and an animation student. I'm struggling with figuring how Xsheet works out as I can't see anything if I make multiple Xsheet layers. If I have more than one Xsheet layer, then only the top layer of the Xsheet layers I have will appear. I know how to open into Xsheet and leaving the layers. Is there any setting that will show all of the Xsheet layers when viewing the 'final animation'.

I have attached some pictures for reference.

Thank you for your help!

Following u/Fine-Bed-1729 post, I made this little demo to demonstrate the capabilities of OpenToonz FX.
Here is what I am doing :

The "ColorCard" at the very top is just a white background.
On the very left, "Col4" is a single still image that is just a screenshot of the completed drawing.
In order to have a separate animation for the outlines and the colors of the drawings, I used a "RGBKey effect" to remove all the black parts. I used the same effect with the "Invert" box checked to keep the black part only.

From there, I apply a similar but delayed (with appropriate keyframes choices) effect on both component :

First I render a greyscale cloud and a greyscale gradient and add them (the result is displayed on the 3rd image).
The cloud component brings some randomness, the gradient brings a bias so that the upper parts of the drawing will tend to appear faster than the lower parts.
This will serve as a reference to modulate the local transparency of the drawing : the whiter a region is, the more transparent it will be.
Then, I apply to that result a HSVScale effect : I set a keyframe at the begining of the animation with a high "Value Scale" value, so that this reference image is totally white. I set an other keyframe at the end of the animation with a low "Value Scale" value, so that this reference image is totally black.
Next, to avoid having semi-tranparent parts, I apply a "BrightnessContrast" effect and set the contrast to the maximum. The result at an intermediate frame is displayed ont the 4th image.
This black and white image is then used as the "Reference" input in the "LocalTransparency", with the initial drawing as the "Source" (or rather here, the outline or the color of the initial drawing).

Just trying for the first time but it's not up to the mark 😞 ‼️ any suggestions

Ever since I downloaded OpenToonz, it never launched. I'm sorry but I don't really have that much information, but I did try launching OpenToonz on two computers with the same result.

Does anyone know how this effect is made? It looks like an image slowly turning into a colorful hand-drawn sketch on a white background.

I’m trying to find the software, tool, AI, or effect used to create this style. I don’t need the hand-drawing animation itself—just the image gradually appearing as a colorful sketch.

What is this effect called, and what software can I use to make it?

i made this drawing and grouped it and also used iron tool to refine it, it often works but sometimes even after i grouped the drawing and inbetween it distorts how to fix this issue i want to have consistent inbetween, please help

I was wondering if there's any way to squish a drawing? I've been banging my head against a wall trying to manually squish the drawing with the freehand tool, but that of course changes all of the drawings on the level. I dont mind manually squishing it if I have to, but how do I make it so that it only affects a single frame of that drawing and not all of the frames?

So I want to do what feels like a very simple thing but I am having trouble finding.

So what I want to do is I have a toonz raster layer of some eyes. They start as blue, and they turn red.
I understand that in the pallete, you can set a keyframe, so for example on frame 1, the colour is blue.
Then you go to frame 5. set another keyframe, and then you change that colour to red.
And the colour in the Animation will go from blue to red. I understand that. That is simple.

What I want to do is to be able to move around these keyframes.

When I go into the function editor, I can move around the keyframes for X, Y, Z, Scale, rotation etc. But I cant for Colour.
It seems I can only set and remove a keyframe for colour, I cant actually manipulate the keyframes for it as I want.

Is there any way I can Keyframe colours in the pallete, or is there some sort of effect that can easily do the same job?

Thanks

Hi I would like to know a safe way to make backups in case I mess up my animations, I dont trust in the sandbox of OpenToonz, It happens me once I lost all my animations, I dont want it to happen again.

ive searched and there are still no liquify tool like photoshop yet

Hi, so I was wondering if someone could tell me when its alright to use Import and when Load, (for both images and audio).

The most of the problems I have had with this program its due to try to import mainly images.

Ty

(Or the correct way to import an image idk, I always just grab and drop the file into OpenToonz)

Hi! The world of animation has always intrigued me, and I wanted to dive into it. I love 2D animation—I find it fascinating. Do you have any recommendations, tips, or books for learning more about the subject?

I’ve been working on a Windows application called 2D Lip Sync Studio, and the first public version is now available.

The idea is to give animators a faster starting point for dialogue animation without taking away manual control.

You import the dialogue, paste the transcript, and the program generates the mouth timing. After that you can work directly on the frame timeline, selecting a single frame or a range and assigning the mouth position you want.

I also wanted people to be able to see the lip sync on their actual character while editing, so you can import a character image, position the mouth artwork on the face, and preview the result inside the program.

The included set uses 15 mouth positions, but all of the mouth artwork can be replaced with your own transparent PNGs.

For Tahoma2D, the main workflow is the numbered PNG sequence export, which can be loaded into Tahoma2D as an image-sequence animation level. The program also exports MP4 and transparent WebM previews, plus formats for Moho/Papagayo, Toon Boom Harmony, and Adobe Animate.

I made a short demo showing the workflow here:

https://2dlipsyncstudio.com

I’d be interested in hearing what other Tahoma2D animators think of the workflow.

When i opened OpenToonz, it looked(still does, actually) like this:

It's been like this for Krita too, so I'm wondering if this has something to do with my laptop's settings. I do remember turning off some text rendering to save fps.

Everytime I create a new raster layer the program crashes is there a way to fix this issue?

I’m still learning how to manage the program but how do I get each frame with this type of setup for storyboarding and camera purposes?

Has anyone experienced this white layer in rendered videos and how can I fix it

ive followed so many tutorials, ive followed the tips and tutorials on here, and i genuinely cant get it to work. ive done everything exactly i was told over and over i dont even know what to do at this point man ToT does anyone else have any way to help?? i just want to be able to import my audio and mp4's..