Peg Hole Registration with TVP Animation

Even though TVPaint Animation is great for tablet-based paperless animation , it is also very useful for traditional hand-drawn animation pencil tests.

When scanning drawings it is much faster to use an Auto Document Feed scanner . However, drawings scanned with an ADF scanner are not precisely registered. The peg holes on the individual drawings may shift quite a bit when running through the ADF scanner rollers , causing the drawings to jitter . The peg holes must be aligned.

This is done with the soon-to-be released TVP 9.5 improved Peg Holes Registration function . Drawings are scanned in off-pegs, but are then easily registered and aligned. (previous versions of TVP have used the "2-Point Stabilization" function in the FX Panel to accomplish peg-hole tracking and registration which worked fine, but was not as simple and easy to use as the new Peg Hole Registration function)  UPDATE:   Some 13 years after I first posted this, the Peg Holes Registration function TVPaint version 11.5 is better than ever.   UPDATE #2: And in 2023 , we have TVPaint 11.7.1 , with an improved Peg Hole Registration function. 

Here is an example.

1.) In the first part the peg holes on the raw scans are unaligned and the drawings shift & jitter .

2.) In the second part it shows the same set of drawings with the peg holes aligned using TVP Peg Hole Registration.

Here is the complete rough animation of this scene: This scene is from a pilot for a film that was never completed. The version of this scene that I turned in was more tied-down (and had all the inbetweens) , but I held on to these rough drawings from my first pass on the scene , so decided to use these drawings as a demonstration of how Peg Hole Tracking & Registration works in TVPaint. This does not have all the inbetweens. (also, the sound is missing. There was a line of dialogue at the end.)
NOTE: the grey "schmutz" on the right side of the drawings was caused by shadows on the original scans because I scanned these quickly without closing the scanner lid. I removed the shadows later in TVPaint as you can see in the final pencil test posted below.

UPDATE: Here's a higher res. version (2K) than the 480p version I posted years ago:

 

Old 480p version -