TVpaint Tutorials

Here’s another little TVPaint workflow speedup, efx stack shortcuts. Bring up the TVPaint effect stack, add a couple of efx plugins and save your effect stack. It’s well hidden, but now you can go and add a new button and context click to edit it. Add a new action line and select “Set FXStack Bin” [...]

At first look, there doesn’t seem to be any way to do alpha channel masking in TVpaint, but there is… it’s just a little different than what you’r used to in other programs. Let’s start by opening an image that isn’t to hard to mask so were not fighting 2 battles at once. Something like [...]

Normally when you draw a stroke and hit undo the whole stroke is undone. Hold down control and draw a stroke and each step layed down by the brush is put into the undo buffer. Now when you undo you can undo the stroke in small steps. Nice for when you are about to draw [...]

Here’s a neat little tip buried in the TVPaint manual. Click on the large color swatch from the color picker a or b pen. Hold down control and click anywhere in your image. The resulting color will be a blend between the current a or b pen color and the color you click on. Very [...]

The default when you select a custom cutbrush you have created is to pop up the tools palette, presumably so you can adjust parameters of the brush. I allready do all this with keyboard shortcuts so it’s a bit annoying to have it pop up when I don’t need it. Context click on the button [...]