30 Days of Animation in TVPaint , by Geoff King

Animator Geoff King set himself the the challenge of animating something every day for 30 days --

30 Days of animation from Geoff King on Vimeo.

"Pencil" animation in TVPaint

I've posted a few of these before (check out the older archived posts)  but here are a few examples of how TVPaint mimics the look of traditional pencil on paper animation.

These examples were drawn paperlessly with a Wacom tablet using TVPaint:

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Great little dialogue test animated by Disney/ILM/Dreamworks animator Lou Dellarosa . Paperless animation using TVPaint Animation with Cintiq tablet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhHAIL1Pm4

Another, more recent, piece of animation done by Lou Dellarosa in TVPaint Animation:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBIxM4xlAH8

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Rough animation by Pablo Navarro from the short film "Venus and the Sun". Animated boar creature combined with live action. Animation drawn with Wacom Cintiq 21ux tablet in the paperless animation application TVPaint Animation 9.5.

Go to Pablo Navarro's blog http://pablonavarro.wordpress.com to see his WIP rough tests with tie-downs.





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Winner of the July 2001 "11 Second Club" animation competition , by Arthur Gil Larsen. Animated paperlessly using a Wacom tablet , drawing directly into TVP Animation.

http://www.11secondclub.com/competitions/july10/winner/

11 Second Club from Arthur Gil Larsen on Vimeo.

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A paperless animation line test animated by Rasmus Norgaard using "Mirage" (aka "TVPaint v. 7.0" , the predecessor to the current version of TVPaint Animation) . This was animated with a Wacom Intous 3 tablet. It was originally posted on the old Mirage User forums.

https://youtu.be/Grw0IT4UC50 

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Also see this earlier post on the blog about the paperless animation process    used by the Norwegian animation studio Sandes Media on their series of children's films for Norwegian TV based on the songs of folk singer Alf Prøysen -

(click the link to read the earlier blog post)

Alf Prøysens Barnesanger by Sandes Media

 

 Here's a progression reel showing a shot from the Alf Prøysen series from  "pencil test"  to final color .    This is all paperless , made in TVPaint:

This shows this scene in the TVPaint interface:

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Rusty Mills is a classically trained animator who has been on the forefront of embracing the new paperless animation technology . Here are some scenes from Rusty's work-in-progress reel for a film he is making called "Gotcha Covered".

Rusty is animating this film on a Motion Computing tablet PC using Mirage.
(a previous version of TVPaint which is no longer available, but similar to the present TVPaint Animation).

 He did most of this animation while commuting on the train into Los Angeles . Now that's a portable animation tool !




©2008 Rusty Mills


Notice how Rusty's rough animation looks virtually the same as traditional pencil-on-paper animation. There is no discernible difference in this that screams out "digital". The drawings look very natural and organic, like real pencil sketches.


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 Here's another pencil test , animated in TVPaint , by Han Sandrine:

 
11secondsclubaugust from Han Sandrine on Vimeo.

Pablo Navarro - Venus and the Sun rough animation in TVPaint

Rough animation by Pablo Navarro from the short film "Venus and the Sun". Animated boar creature combined with live action. Animation drawn with Wacom Cintiq 21ux tablet in the paperless animation application TVPaint Animation 9.5. Go to Pablo Navarro's blog http://pablonavarro.wordpress.com to see his WIP rough tests with tie-downs.

"Song of the Sea" teaser trailer (Cartoon Saloon) directed by Tomm Moore

Tomm Moore, the director of the recently released "The Secret of Kells" , is at work on a new film called "Song of the Sea" . On his production blog Tomm Moore mentioned that they are using TVPaint Animation to animate the film paperlessly. Here's the teaser trailer:

  

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UPDATE in 2021: I posted this 10 years ago before "Song of the Sea" was released . Of course, since then Cartoon Saloon has continued to produce high-quality animated feature films , including "The Breadwinner" and "Wolfwalkers" , which also used TVPaint Animation for the character animation (along with Moho for props and some effects animation)

Final Trailer for "Song of the Sea" - 

"The Breadwinner" - 

"Wolfwalkers" - 

"My Dog Tulip" by Paul & Sandra Fierlinger

The independent animated feature film "My Dog Tulip" was animated by Paul Fierlinger and painted by Sandra Fierlinger.

The film was made paperlessly with TVP Animation.

Here's a Making-of video about "My Dog Tulip" where you can see Paul's studio set up with a Wacom tablet and multiple monitors:





Recently Paul and Sandra Fierlinger have also completed a series of animated PSA's "Shelter Stories" based on the work of Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell . These are also animated paperlessly with TVP -

Sauna Tango - directed by Vera Lalyko

Made in TVPaint -

Sauna Tango from TOONKRAFT on Vimeo.

"Charlie Bit Me" - Animation by Lou Dellarosa

Great little dialogue test animated by Disney/ILM/Dreamworks animator Lou Dellarosa . Paperless animation using TVPaint Animation with Cintiq tablet. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhHAIL1Pm4

 

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Another animation by Lou Dellarosa, made with TVPaint - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBIxM4xlAH8

Hades Pencil Test - by Rasmus Norgaard

A paperless animation line test animated by Rasmus Norgaard using "Mirage" ( the predecessor to TVPaint Animation) . 

This was animated with a Wacom Intous 3 tablet. It was originally posted on the old Mirage forums.

 Since Mirage has been sold back to the TVPaint Development Co. and has now been improved and updated as TVPaint Animation PRO  I thought it would be good to post this here (because the old Mirage forums are going to be shut down)    Everything that could be done with Mirage (and a lot more ) can be done with TVPaint: 

Second Class by Boris Belghiti

Senior graduation film made by Boris Belghiti at the Emile Cohl school in 2008. Made with TVP Animation software.

'The Apple & the Worm' feature film made with TVP

The Apple & the Worm

This new feature film was made with TVP Animation. Animation was done paperlessly in TVP with Wacom tablets.

I don't understand a word of the Danish dialogue in the trailer, but it looks very funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZXh8BMqVI

In this interview the animation director for the film, Mads Juul, discusses how TVP Animation was utilized to make "The Apple & the Worm" feature:

Interview with animation director Mads Juul

Another article about "The Apple and the Worm" --Click Here --



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"Beton" by Ariel Belinco and Michael Faust

"Beton" by Ariel Belinco and Michael Faust , animated with TVPaint Animation: This film demonstrates the painterly, textured animation that can be accomplished with TVPaint -

Beton, by Ariel Belinco, Michael Faust (Preview) from Acme Filmworks, Inc. on Vimeo.

Directing, Script and Animation: Ariel Belinco & Michael Faust Original Music: Mikael Berkowitsch Sound Design: Michael Goorevich Project Supervisors: Van den bergh Roelof, Kaminski Hanan America Israel Cultural Foundation / Bezlalel Academy of Art & Design, Israel / Utrecht School of Arts, Holland

"Joust" Animatic by Mike Koizumi

Found this amazing animatic posted on the TVP Animation User Forum . Animator Mike Koizumi writes:

"This is my first post and I wanted to share with you an animatic I made with the old Mirage program. I used the demo to create this and finished it in three weeks. It features a battle between a griffon rider and an undead dragon rider.

When I discovered that Mirage had been discontinued I was saddened because I had hoped to purchase it to create more animated works. Recently, I learned that the developers of Mirage had created TVPaint ! It looks fantastic and there seems to be many improvements since the old Mirage. I'm looking forward to testing out the demo soon and I'm sure I will be purchasing the software as well."

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"Maestro Cuisine" by LISAA Students

Short film "Maestro Cuisine" animated in TVP Animation by students at LISAA (L'Institut Superieure des Arts Appliques) a French school with campuses in Paris, Rennes, Nantes, and Strasbourg.

"Maestro Cuisine" Credits:

Julien Ducher (decoration, background), Romain Verdier (animation), Kim Marc Huynh (animation)

"The Sword and the Paintbrush" by Jean-Jacques Chen

"The Sword and the Paintbrush" by Jean- Jacques Chen , animated and colored in TVP Animation. It was created and drawn by Jean Jacques Chen also well known as "L'apprenti roi des singes".

Interview with Jean Jacques Chen

You can view the film on the TVPaint web site:

  "The Sword & the Paintbrush" Quicktime --Click HERE -- 

(sorry, no embedded version available) .

Bear Line Test - Jeremy Hopkins

Animation from a film being made by Jeremy Hopkins.

Animated paperlessly with a Cintiq tablet in TVP Animation -

Kid Rocket Clean-Up in TVP Animation by Jeff Baker

Jeff Baker rough animated this on paper, then imported to TVP for clean-up.

Stop-Motion with TVP Animation

This is a Clay animation film made by school-age children using TVPaint Animation. 

 Although TVPaint is used primarily as a "paperless" animation system for drawing directly into the program with a Wacom tablet, the program also has a video frame-capture feature and onion-skinning which permits Stop-Motion animation.  In this film the students made good use of TVPaint's "green screen" chroma key feature to place the clay animated fish into the sets for the swimming shots . They also used TVP to add effects animation such as the bubbles .   In addition to frame-capturing the clay animation, they used TVP to animate the titles and the small school of fish swimming in the first shot.

   

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UPDATE :  in the years since I first posted this example of Stop Motion Animation made by students using TVPaint I  had the opportunity to teach many online classes on stop motion animation , using TVPaint as the frame capture software.   There are some advantages to using TVPaint because of the built-in digital painting tools , as well as the the FX functions such as chroma-keying ("green screen") , which can be used to digitally remove puppet rigging.  During most of the time I was teaching stop-motion classes using TVPaint I had the students using HD Webcams such as the Logitech C910 , C920, or C930e which are capable of capturing very high quality images , especially if careful attention is paid to lighting . (also TURN OFF the webcam's auto-focus and auto-exposure. Use the Logitech Camera Control software or even better webcam control software like iGlasses or Webcam Settings to control the exposure and focus manually)    However, one of the weaknesses of TVPaint for stop motion frame capture , compared to something like the industry-standard stop motion software Dragonframe , is that for years TVPaint was limited to using a limited number of  Canon DSLR cameras (and then only using a plug-in on the Windows version of TVPaint, not on the Mac version of TVPaint) for the best quality frame capture.  In most cases the best option for frame capture in TVPaint was to use an HD webcam which produced acceptable results.    Now however there are some options for capturing higher-resolution images with DSLR cameras (both Canon and Nikon) using a couple of different applications: 

1.)  Spark-O-Cam  https://sparkosoft.com/sparkocam  is an app that lets you use your Canon or Nikon DSLR to capture images from the live video feed of the DSLR at resolution of HD 1920 x 1080

https://sparkosoft.com/how-to-use-dslr-as-webcam 

Unfortunately, Spark-O-Cam is for Windows-only , so it is not a solution for Mac users.

An even better solution is to use:

2.)  Elgato Cam Link 4k which will work for both Windows and Mac.   It requires a camera that can produce a 4k HDMI out .   Elgato has a list of cameras that can produce the 4k HDMI output here: https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link/camera-check

This will allow for high-resolution frame capture into TVPaint from your DSLR camera or HDMI video camera.   You can use it for capturing stop motion animation as well as shooting line tests of traditional pencil on paper animation. (attach your camera to a copy stand and shoot the drawings on an animation peg bar taped down securely on the copy stand platform.)

Here is a playlist with examples of stop-motion animation made by students using TVPaint with HD webcams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbp9nfV0r-0&list=PLpyXxVvCbmX-wRVDjnG40mOdO-9W3U2JA

"Le Chat Noir" TVP Animation

 

 A short film animated with TVPaint Animation (BG's done in Painter) made by students Xavier Gorgol, Rony Hotin, Sébastien Genre, Yoann Robert  at Lycée technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg.

 

"Lucien" , short film animated with TVP Animation

"Lucien" a short film animated using TVP Animation by Nathalie Corcessin, Djamel Meslem, Pierre-Julien Vandenburie, students at LISAA (L'Institut Superieure des Arts Appliques).

"SnowMotion" by David Meslin

Animated by UCLA Animation Workshop grad David Meslin, working directly in TVP with a Wacom tablet.

This is a good demonstration of a more "painterly" approach that can be used with TVP Animation.