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1. Hence these invisible curves are only displayed as dashed curves which you can hide and show using the button To draw visible curves use the pen or polyline tool Note 2 for vector images the paint bucket tool used to fill a contour is not 100 reliable because this operation is non trivial for vector shapes trust me on that Thus you might need to click several times at different locations before having the desired contour filled If it does not work check that the contour is closed zoom in and or use the outline display button or press F1 If you find a gap close it with the pen pencil or polyline If it still does not work redraw over some junctions to make sure all curves are connected Zoom and rotation Using the hand tool you can move the canvas in all directions You can also zoom in and out by holding the command key Apple on the Mac and dragging the hand Alternatively you can drag with the right button of your mouse You can also rotate the canvas by holding the ALT key but be aware that some tools such as the painter bucket are not yet working when the image is rotated To go back to the original view simply double click with the hand tool or double click the hand tool button http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 3 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM Animating Now we want to make some animation As mentioned above the point is to cr2. Layer O 35 Bitmap Layer 49 vectorLayer 49 vectorLayer 49 vectorLayer 49 vectorLayer 49 VectorLayer O 48 VectorLayer 35 Bitmap Layer gt gt Bitmap Layer O 35 Bitmap Layer If the currently selected layer is an image layer it is shown in the canvas view at full opacity By default the other image layers are semi transparent to help you focus on the selected layer However if you wish to see all the image layers at full opacity as they will appear in the final rendering press the circle above all the layers to turn it black If on the contrary you want to concentrate on the selected layer and hide all the other layers press again the circle to turn it blank Drawin The first thing you might want do to with Pencil is drawing In fact disregarding the tracks and animation controls in the the time line which can be all hidden by dragging the vertical separator in the time line one can use Pencil as a drawing program Using the standard drawing tools pen pencil brush paint bucket you can draw a picture in one of the image layers By default the first selected layer in a new document is a bitmap image layer Note that you can draw anywhere inside the main window it is a canvas with unlimited space http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 2 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM O Tools Bitmap drawing The drawing
3. tools behave more or less as one might expect The size colour etc of each tool can be specified in the Options palette If a tablet stylet is used which is recommended the pressure is used to affect the width and or opacity of the selected tool If you don t have a stylet but only a mouse it might be easier to draw with the polyline tool than the pencil or pen tools Simply click different points on the canvas and a smooth curve going through these points is created When you are done double click on the last point or press return If you just want to draw a Straight line click to define the starting point and double click to define the ending point Vector drawing When a vector image layer is selected you can use the same tools to draw on this layer The main difference is that all your drawings and strokes are converted to geometrical shapes As a result you can zoom or enlarge your drawing without getting any pixel aliasing effect When you change a colour in the Colours palette the colour is automatically changed in the vector image The points of vector curves can be adjusted using the finger tool That makes vector images ideal for finished clear cut drawings typically a character in an animation while you might prefer bitmap images for quick drafts or more complex fuzzy images typically a background in an animation Note 1 the pencil tool is intended for curves which will not be displayed in the final drawing
4. 2 1 28 PM images from the clipboard ie from other applications by copying pasting Cameras A camera layer lets you define a particular view with a certain aspect ratio within your unlimited canvas What s more you can define a view for each key of the camera track and the view is linearly interpolated between the keys To do that simply create a camera layer move the red scrub to the desired frame and use the hand tool to adjust the view inside the camera viewing frame By double clicking on the camera name you can set the resolution of the camera viewing frame oO i CameraLayer Sound Pencil has some elementary sound support To add some sound create a sound layer Then select the Import sound command in the Layer menu and choose a sound file only WAV format is supported on Windows the Mac version can import any format that can be read by QuickTime This will create a triangular key in the sound track The key indicates where the sound will start to play You can move this key as any other key A sound layer does not play any sound when it is deactivated All sounds can be turned on and off for the whole animation by pressing the sound button in the the time line controls O gE Bitmap Layer t Sound Layer Note that the sound will not play if its starting key is at the end of the time line simply because Pencil stops playing when it reaches the last key of the document You may need to add a key in some lay
5. eate several key images in an image layer It may help you to think first of the extreme key frames in your animation and draw them first then you can move the frame around afterwards as you expand Key Frames This would for example be if you imagine a swinging ball on a string the right most middle and left most frames of the ball moving The trick is then working out how fast you want it to move and how you want your ball to change speed Thinking about this will help you to understand what you do and don t need as an animator when you or if you already do more complicated animations you will want to be very conservative about drawing only the frames you really need as you will often have deadlines and be working with hundreds of frames Frames per second Generally filmed sequences will use a timing of 25 frames per second fps Now that we know this as an animator you may find drawing 25fps is not needed at all Often animators and the audiences watching them are happy using and watching 12fps Although this will give you less flexibility in terms of seamless seamless SEAMLESS detail 12fps is more than likely what is best to use in most circumstances But mess around with the fps and experiment this is very important Onion skin The traditional way of drawing key images is to use the previous or next key image to guide the drawing of the current key image by displaying the previous or next key images in semi tra
6. en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM User Manual Pencil 0 4 3b by P Naidon July 21st 2007 to be completed Overview A Pencil document is organized in layers There are currently four types of layers bitmap image vector image sound and camera The Time Line window at the bottom of the screen shows the existing layers By default a new document contains a bitmap layer and a vector layer on top of it but you can add and delete layers as you wish using either the Oo buttons next to Layers or the menu Layer me 4 o keys Q Onion skin ff ff Cr Cs le SSS ey E 46 vectoriayer EO WLUW LE fa Fps 12 6 3 The names of the layers can be changed to represent what you ve put in each by double clicking on the name of the layer in the timeline A window will pop up allowing you to edit the layer s name Click OK when you have changed it to the name you want and the new name will appear in the timeline TimeLine OOO Layer name Layer name O CeT C C Oai veao en ps y hh Tete O Layers OE Bitmap Layer 46 Badground Each layer has a track which enables you to change it as a function of time This is done by inserting keys the little gray rectangles at certain frames in the track Each key contains information about what the layer should show or produce at the frame where the key is located To add or delete keys at a particu
7. er to be able to hear the sound Example Vector drawing Here is a typical example to draw one frame We start in a bitmap layer and use the pencil tool to sketch a character http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 5 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM Once the draft is finished we go to a vector layer and use the pen tool to ink the character ie draw clean lines on top of the draft In order to draw precisely you might need to zoom in the picture To do that select the S hand tool and right click on the picture or click with Apple key on the Mac and drag the mouse You will get a dynamic zoom into the centre of the picture If you experience some difficulty drawing with the pen tool TI especially with a mouse instead of a stylet you can also use the polyline tool kaj http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 6 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM O O Oyeme Layervectorial P Layervectoral The next step is to put some colours Select the paint bucket tool and select a colour in the palette click the black square to show the colour palette The palette comes with a limited number predefined colours You can change them at any time and add as many colours as you want Once you ve picked a colour click with the paint pucket tool inside a region you want to fill Make s
8. lar frame in a layer track use the Qs C buttons next to Keys shortcut type return to create a new frame For image layers ie bitmap and vector each key corresponds to a different image The sequence of these images creates an animation The current frame is indicated by the red bar and can be changed by moving the red bar to scrub through your animation or use the left and right arrows To play the animation use the controls in the time http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 1 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM line Note that you can loop the animation as well as set the number of frames per seconds note you can loop and change the frame rate of the animation whilst the animation is playing this is great in terms of frame rate to find the best speed of your animation Layers To select a layer that you want to edit just click on it in the layer list or use the up and down arrows You can change the layer order by dragging their name The order affects the way image layers are displayed on top of each other it does not affect the sound and camera layers Layer properties such as their name can be changed by double clicking on the name see above Layers can be activated or deactivated by clicking the circle at the very left of their icon A deactivated image layer is hidden from the canvas view O O 35 Bitmap Layer 35 Bitmap
9. nsparency This is called onion Skin You can use the onion skin buttons to activate or deactivate the previous and next onion skins Adjusting keys To test and improve your animation you can change the location of keys Click to select one key and drag it where you want To select several keys use the hold the SHIFT key Often you will want to extend the time between two keys which implies moving all the subsequent keys To do that hold the ALT key and click the second key this will automatically select all the subsequent keys Importing images If you feel more comfortable with drawing sketches on real paper you might want to import existing drawings in Pencil You can import a bitmap image at a particular frame in a bitmap layer by using the Import image command in the Layer menu Alternatively you can drag and drop bitmap images from an external window onto the canvas A key is created for each imported image This is particularly useful when you have a lot of images By default the top left corner of each image is set to the centre of the view If you want to import your images at a particular location use the select tool and drag a rectangle on the canvas The images will be imported in the rectangle If the images are larger than the rectangle they will be rescaled Note that you can also paste http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 4 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 1
10. s or as a Flash movie or a QuickTime movie Mac OS X only Note that the current view is used for the export ie either the working view or the camera view if a camera layer is selected It might be possible to export to other vector formats such as SVG in the future en users manual 0 4 3b index txt Last modified 2011 05 17 00 38 by pascal http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 8 of 8
11. ure there is no gap in your drawing Sometimes the program fails to fill the region In this case click at another place or zoom in the region an try again If you like you can add shadows to your picture To do that use the pencil tool Used with vector layers this tool creates dashed path which do not appear in the final version of your animation These paths will define the border of the shadows Then you can fill these regions with darker colours http pencil animation org wiki doku php id en users manual 0 4 3b index Page 7 of 8 en users manual 0 4 3b index Pencil Wiki 12 28 12 1 28 PM To hide or show these paths press the button a Finally click on the circle next to the bitmap layer to hide the original sketch To create an animation you have to sketch several frames and test that your animation works well Then you can ink your drawings using the method described above Bitmap drawing If you wish you can use only bitmap layers In that case make sure you have a bitmap layer below the bitmap layer that you ink this way clicking with the paint bucket will put colours not in the current layer but in the layer below it which preserves your original drawing Saving and exporting your animation You can save your work in a specific XML format along with a folder containing the bitmap data This is the format currently used by Pencil to save a document You can also export your animation as a sequence of PNG image
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