So I added a peg element to the timeline panel and renamed it "character-P". We need to add a motion path to get him off dead center and going across the screen. So now we have our character doing a looping walk cycle in place with his faithful shadow marching along. (trivial reference) Below are a few of the cells in our sequence so you can see that the shadow is being generated as we scrub from cell to cell. It is just like when Wendy sews on Peter Pan's shadow. We don't have to do anything after we get it set on the first cell of the sequence. Once we adjust the size and orientation of the shadow and its relative positioning, TBS will in real-time render the shadow to match each cell in our character animation sequence.
TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 TUTORIAL TRIAL
This is a trial and error learning process using those grab handles but with a little practice it gets really easy. The scene operation select tool needs to be active and the track for the Drop Shadow Effect must be selected in the timeline panel so that we can use the grab handles to adjust and orient our shadow to our character. We could just drag the shadow to match up to the character's feet as in this example, but shadows are created by "light" sources so we have to orient our shadow depending on the direction and intensity of our imaginary "light" source. Using the grab handles on the parallelogram looking tool is how we will manipulate and orient our drop shadow. Of course it doesn't look correct yet because we need to position and orient his shadow. Once the character is attached to the Drop Shadow Effect we can see his shadow. Just drag the character track, or tracks if you used multiple elements for your character, over the top of the Drop Shadow Effect track label. It is just like attaching to a peg element. To generate a shadow I need to attach my character to the Drop Shadow Effect. I do see a parallelogram looking tool icon that will be useful in a minute. When I first add the Drop Shadow Effect to the timeline track list, no shadow appears because nothing is attached to the effect to generate the shadow. Next I will add a new element of the type Drop Shadow Effect to my timeline panel. I'm going to have the ant walk across the stage so I'll use my 12 cell sequence and the Create Cycle command to repeat this basic walk in place cycle for 8 loops. This drop shadow technique would work in either case.
I could have used multiple elements for this animation (head, body, right arm, left arm, etc.) but I chose to do it with a single element. This animated cycle consists of 12 cells all in a single element.
The first step was to create a simple animation of our ant character walking in place.
TOON BOOM STUDIO 8 TUTORIAL HOW TO
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to apply a drop shadow effect to an animated character. One of the really fun features of Toon Boom Studio is the Drop Shadow Effect.
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