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Jasper Sharp investigates the hype over “free” animation software. Last month, a press release went out under the heading ‘TOONZ goes Open Source!’ The revolutionary 2-D animation software, developed for the professional market by the Rome-based company Digital Video in 1993 and originally distributed by Softimage as Creative Toonz, has now been placed freely within the reach of the independent and the amateur filmmaker, and it was a Japanese company that had put it there.That company was Dwango, a “new media” specialist and video portal provider founded in 1997 which counts the Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga and the games developer Spike Chunsoft among its interests. Dwango is part of the Kadokawa Dwango holding company, established in 2014 through a merger with the Kadokawa media conglomerate. It was a match made in heaven: the Kadokawa side of “content creation” coupled with Dwango’s clout in the field of online distribution.But it was a rather more familiar Japanese name that stole the story and caused such a stir within the animation community. Most of the news pieces that proliferated in the wake of the original announcement noted that it was the TOONZ Studio Ghibli Version that was being made available under its new name of OpenToonz.“With one announcement, the animation software game may have changed forever” wrote Amid Amidi in a report titled ‘Toonz Software Used by Studio Ghibli and ‘Futurama’ Being Made Free and Open Source’. Other pieces circulating via social media over the following days were even more breathless. In a piece for Wired, Matt Kamen claimed that “Animators aspiring to be the next Hayao Miyazaki are now one step closer to their dreams” while Becket Muffson concluded on The Creators Project website that “We expect an uptick in high quality Totoro tribute films and animations inspired by the semi-retired animation legend while young animators are still in a position to play around and hone their styles.” The implication seemed to be that anyone with a computer could now knock out works of the quality of Princess Mononoke in their bedrooms.But what exactly is TOONZ, and how has the software been used over the years by Ghibli? Since its international distribution deal with Disney in 1996, Ghibli has been regarded outside Japan as a force against the proliferation of completely 3D computer-generated features that have come to dominate the commercialmarket. But 3D animation and rendering techniques have regularly

That lines them up according to the punch hole positions. The software then cleans up and converts these to a sequence of anti-aliased line artwork files. The final part of the process is the digital addition of colour using a palette typically specified by the colourist or art director.In other words, rather than providing a new way of doing animation, Arias sees TOONZ and similar packages as “a digital replacement for a previously analog photo-mechanical/optical process… a modern tool, perhaps as digital sound mixing consoles are compared to old analog desks.”The free availability of OpenToonz does offer one obvious major advantage in that previously it has been prohibitively expensive for all but the most major studios. Studio 4C, with whom Arias worked on The Animatrix, Mind Game and Tekkonkinkreet, found “there were cheaper alternatives that worked well enough for the scanning/cleanup/colouring part of the process”, although Arias acknowledges “TOONZ may well have been the best all-around solution for the task.”As he elaborates, when Ghibli first start using digital tools and techniques the “production environment was much more homogenous than it is now”, dominated by a couple monolithic packages like Softimage 3D (and later XSI) and Alias Animator (and subsequently Maya). It was “a much simpler landscape back in the 90’s, whereas now it is a big collection of specialised software tools (now everyone uses many packages and a lot of “glue” code to go-between).”One might therefore question the extent to which OpenToonz provides possibilities for the independent animator that weren’t there before. In this respect, it is worth zeroing in on the part of the original press release that states that while Dwango is “allowing the animators’ community to use a state of the art technology at no cost”, it will still be “offering to the industry commissioning, installation & configuration, training, support and customization services” (presumably not for free!) and will “also continue to develop and market a Toonz Premium version at a very competitive price for those companies willing to invest in the customization of Toonz for their projects.”As to the specifics of the Studio Ghibli Version, Arias can only speculate: “I’d guess these features are customisations local to Ghibli’s pipeline, presumably a dedicated palette format and maybe some improved scanning/cleanup features.” In any measure, TOONZ has been just one of a number of software packages used by the studio, and to what extent it alone contributed to

Discuss types:Raster Level (blue) - the "regular" raster level is the type that most drawing programs like Photoshop use. All imported graphics will be in this format, and you can draw in it regularly in OpenToonz as well, but it is not the most practical for animation. It is the most feature rich for actual painting, while others are poorer in that regard.Toonz Levels - Both the Toonz raster level and the Toonz vector level have a few common animation friendly features. They differentiates between lines and fills so you can have onion skin show only lines or delete only lines (changed in preferences under the onion skin tab), or fills with the eraser or bucket tool. Also, if a color is changed, all the lines that were drawn with that color will change EVERYWHERE they were drawn, so you can define a palette immediately and adjust it later if needed.Toonz Raster Level (green) acts a lot like the Raster level but with the added Toonz level functionality. It does prevent you from using painterly brushes, unlike the regular raster level.Toonz Vector Level (yellow) uses math and vectors for showing graphics, like flash/adobe animate or illustrator do, and is impractical for quick sketches and is best suited for polish and final graphics since it can scale without loss of quality, has no size limit, and enables easier inbetweening. I will mainly skip anything related to this level since it will get a separate tutorial of it's own soon because it is loaded with exceptions.Scan Level (blue) is... I assume the level type that gets automatically selected if you decide to scan traditional images into OpenToonz directly, but I have never done so, and it does nothing useful if you select it from here. I assume it functions like the raster level otherwise.The type of level you want to use depends on need and preference, but I found the Toonz Raster level to be a good balance between the other two, hence why I had people set up their default new level type to it at the start of the first

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