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(again just a personal preference for rough sketches) We also need to choose a color for our "stick figure" drawing, so I chose "blue". (strictly a personal preference) You can't take advantage of pressure sensitivity unless you are using a drawing tablet like a Wacom tablet. I have set up and chosen a variable pen 3 minimum and 16 maximum and smoothing set to level 4. We need to open the Properties panel and choose a "pen" for our drawing tool. I normally use the brush for rough animation. Now that we have a place to start drawing our action, we will need a drawing tool like the pencil or the brush. Our first sheet of "digital" paper will be cell 1 at frame 1 under the Stick-A drawing element. We will start by renaming that drawing element. You will also want to open up your Exposure Sheet panel which has a single drawing element by default. The first step in doing our "stick figure" animation is to open TBS and find the drawing view panel where we will draw our action. I certainly hope that you will find it informative even if you are older than 9 years old.
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I'm going to keep it as simple as possible and break it into two parts just for ease in publication. So I'm going to take you through the steps in creating a "stick figure" throwing a ball.
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I decided that this first tutorial should be a good place to start in that learning process. Today with products like Toon Boom Studio and Toon Boom Studio Express learning to animate is really fun and easy.
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I thought back to when I was a young person and started animating and I remembered making "flip books" full of stick figures doing all sorts of actions. A recent posting on the Toon Boom Studio forums requested tutorial help for a 9 year old interested in getting started in animation.