Pablo Navarro animation for "The Legend of Smurfy Hollow" , animated in TVPaint

"Rough Tie Down Animation for the direct to video Feature film 'The Legend of Smurfy Hollow', done for Sony Pictures Animation and The Spa Studios.
All work has been done by Pablo Navarro except by the layout clips. Enjoy!"

http://pablonavarro.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/my-work-in-smurfs-the-legend-of-smurfy-hollow/ 


Smurfy Hollow Traditional Animation Demo Pablo Navarro from Pablo Navarro on Vimeo.

Gobelins Annecy 2012

Two films for the  2012 Annecy Animation Festival made by Gobelins students using TVPaint Animation :

"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.

TVPaint Trailer - edited by Mark Chong

Mark Chong put together this "trailer" sampling various projects made with TVPaint Animation: These and many more are on the official TVPaint Gallery , which has recently been expanded and updated. Partial List of Schools using TVPaint:

Gobelins L'école de l'image California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Capilano University The Animation Workshop (Viborg) UCLA Animation Workshop Ecole LISAA Bezalel Academy of Art Ecole Emile Cohl Ecole de La Cambre Bruxelles School of Visual Arts (NYC) Libscomb University

How to Eat Your Apple - by Erick Oh

Animated in TVPaint Animation by Erick Oh -

How to eat your Apple from ERICK OH on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/erickoh

"Rain Town" by Hiroyasu Inshida

"Rain Town" by Hiroyasu Inshida

(if you click through to the YouTube page I suggest switching it to 720p HD mode for better image quality)

The opening titles say:

"In this town, since who knows when, rain has never stopped.
Residents moved out to suburbs and high ground around
"rain town."

People's memories are now deeply submerged.

But into this forgotten rainy town
sometimes, someone wanders."

Graduation film by Hiroyasu Inshida made at Kyoto Seika University.

Alf Prøysens Barnesanger by Sandes Media

Saw this on CartoonBrew today:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/music-vid...wegian-tv.html

And also on the TVP Animation Community Forum , where they report that the animation and coloring was done with TVP Animation:

http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4750

So the animation is actually hand-drawn, but paperless , drawn in TVP Animation using Wacom tablets. BG's were painted in Photoshop. (although they could have used TVP Animation to paint the fully-rendered BG's as well)

The director , Hans Jørgen Sandnes , writes:

Quote:

"...based on the songs of famed Norwegian singer/songwriter Alf Prøysen (1914 – 1970). The series is hand-drawn, made in-house by me and my five collegues. The episodes are short “music-videos” following Prøysens original recordings. We’re very passionate about our work, trying to master the medium of traditional 2D animation.”

Trailer for the television series:

Line test of a scene animated paperlessly in TVP Animation:

Making-of progression video showing line test to final color:

It's interesting that for publicity purposes in the making-of video (above) they have taken steps to disguise the digital origins of the drawings by adding some fake "flipping paper" effects to the animation.

I think I understand why this is done for the general public consumption: the minute you tell non-animation people "we used a digital program to do the animation" many people have this crazy idea stuck in their head : "ah-ha, the computer does it all" , as if the someone simply types in a command and pushes a button , then the computer program animates the scene. Whereas people still understand that if something is hand-drawn an artist is responsible for creating it.

It is difficult for many people to grasp the idea that there can be hand-drawn animation made on a computer , which is virtually the same process as hand-drawn animation on paper, except the lines are drawn directly into a program like TVP Animation using a wacom tablet, instead of drawn on paper and scanned/photographed.

Hand-drawn , in TVP Animation.

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Some additional comments from the director/lead animator, Hans Jorgen Sandes, were posted on the TVP Animation Community User Forum:

http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4750

Quote:

I'm so glad you're using this on the TVPaint page. Because, it's ALL sketched, animated and coloured in TVPaint. The backgrounds are PhotoShop, and the composite is in AppleMotion. We're working on the subject of painting the backgrounds in TVP as well. The composite is very minimal, and AppleMotion works great with FinalCut. http://barnas-ark.blogspot.com/2010/08/hos-oss.html Since others are so interested in our process, I will make a post on how we're working. I'll also include how the animation is actually done in the TVP software. I'll post it on your forum and my blog. Anyway, feel free to share this information : ) Looking forward to hear from you again! All the best, Hans

As promised the lead animator/ director of this piece, Hans J. Sandnes has provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse at their work process using TVP Animation at his studio Sandnes Media.

He writes:

"We're a small team: an animator, an inbetweener, a background-artist, a compositor , and a producer. Using TVPaint means we're still making hundreds of unique drawings. We're sketching, erasing and re-doing drawings. But we don't have to spend time on scanning the drawings, numbering them, line-testing them and archiving them. In a way, TVPaint helps us doing what we like. And takes away the unnecessary steps.

Here's an in-depth look at how we do it. " :

http://barnas-ark.blogspot.com/p/paperless-animation.html

LE PHARE (THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER) - Gobelins student film made with TVPaint

LE PHARE / THE LIGHTHOUS KEEPER from GOBELINS pro on Vimeo.

LE PHARE (THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER), animated film made by David FRANCOIS, Rony HOTIN, Jérémie MOREAU, Baptiste ROGRON, Gaëlle THIERRY, Maïlys VALLADE in 2009 at GOBELINS- l'école de l'image . TVP Animation was used to make this film. (some 3D objects in the film created using Maya).

"Le Royaume" - new Gobelins School film

"Le Royaume" is one of the recent 2010 vintage films made at the Gobelins School in Paris using TVPaint Animation. The film is by Gobelins students De Nuno ALVES-RODRIGUES, Oussama BOUACHERIA, Julien CHHENG, Aymeric KEVIN, Sébastien HARY, Franck MONIER, Ulysse MALASSAGNE.

  On the TVPaint User Forum there were these details posted about the production:

In "Le Royaume", they partly animated on paper and scanned the drawings to TVPaint for coloring , but because of the lack of time (scanning, scan-clean, etc ... there is no high-speed batch scanner available for students at the Gobelins school.), they ended up animating the rest of the film directly into TVPaint Animation (with Wacom tablets) and were able to finish the project on time.

Color Script and other "making of" material about "Le Royaume" at this link-

  Making of 'Le Royaume' 

"Toki" by Golgoth Studios - Made with TVP Animation

Golgoth Studio is a new independant video game studio based in France. It is the aim of this teacm to keep 2D gaming alive within this 3D world, by the making of 2D fully hand-animated games in High Definition, for digital platforms.

Golgoth Studio has re-made "Toki", a video game originally released in 1989, on Arcade Game, with a poor man transformed into an ape, who will fight many bad guys and monsters to save the princess Miho, trapped by the evil sorcerer Vokimeldo.

This funny platform-game remake should be available first on Playstation Network in April 2010, then later Wii.

The animation was made with TVP Animation. Here is a trailer comparing scenes from the original "Toki" (c. 1989) with the new version:





Rough Animation cycle, then cleaned-up and colored in TVP:

Rough Animation frames from TVP :

"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 -

'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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"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) .

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

Chad Essley - TVP Animation

Very fun piece of paperless animation by Chad Essley drawn with a Tablet PC  (Motion Computing LE 1700)  animated directly in TVPaint Animation: