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Welcome to Steve Drawers. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can use the vector brushes in ToonSquid.
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The reason why I'm using vector brushes in my animation is because sometimes I want to zoom in into the action. When you use vector brushes, and you can find them in the brushes menu—you see it here in the category "vector"—there are several vector brushes you can use. I changed a pixel brush into a vector brush. And you can, you know, change pixel brushes into vector brushes pretty easily; just press on "Vector Mode" on, and then it will change a pixel brush into a vector brush.
So I'm using this brush to ink one keyframe of an animation. I just have to finish the hairs on this little character. This is Harlow Hippo, the love interest of Horus Hippo. And in this story, which is Horus Hippo in Egypt, she's a mummy who is revealed in this scene. In order to, you know, fill in the inks, everything needs to be closed so you can really zoom in and you see that the line art is still intact.
I used to ink this drawing just on the drawing itself. And I've made a palette for all of the Horus Hippo drawings I'm going to do, or the animation of Horus Hippo, because they're all the same; it's all in black and white. But I noticed that when you fill in the colors on the same layer, sometimes you get strange artifacts.
Here you have the timeline, which has layers, but in each keyframe you can have different layers. So press on the layers tab, then press on "+", then "layer", and just drag it underneath. And what you can do is make this layer into a fill reference layer. And what that does is that the ink layer will become the reference to the layer underneath. So now you can use the bucket tool and have your inks and also your colors on different layers. And in this way, you can, you know, color your image.
Here's a keyframe just before it. I just have to check if all the colors are right. And for the small things, you can also use the brush just to color it in underneath. So this is how you can color ink lines and have it on a separate layer. And when you're doing the final inks, you can just turn off, or just do the inks and then do the coloring. Or if you wanted to do it per keyframe, then you could just turn it off. And if you turn on your onion skin when you turn off the layers of the colors, when the keyframes are closer together, you know, you can pretty improve your inking.
Hope you enjoyed this video. And if you like it, please give it a thumbs up. I will do more videos about, you know, working on this animation. This animation is for a graphic novel I'm working on, which is called Horus Hippo Returns. And you can find the first chapter of the graphic novel, which is called Horus Hippo of the Silver Screen; it's available for free on Apple Books. And I'll leave a link below this video.
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