This way you don’t have to keep adjusting the opacity of your tool every time you want to paint something that is not completely opaque. The main difference between our palette and others is that we let you set an opacity level for each color in the palette. TransparencyįlipBook’s color palette lets you add all the colors you want to make your scenes look exactly the way you want them to. Touch and hold the color icon to open the palette. To animation pose to pose and do in-betweens, just click on the poses you want to see and then click on the in-between cel to start drawing. The previous drawings will appear ghosted behind the one you’re working on. To animate straight just click on the next cel and draw in it. You also have the option to keep the background image on at all times.
You can control how many you want on the stack and the bottom ones are automatically removed when there are too many. When you open an image it goes on top of the stack, just like on a traditional animation disc. It works automatically to let you see exactly the images you want ghosted behind the one you’re working on. Light BoxįlipBook’s Light Box is uniquely powerful yet very simple. Touch and hold on any cel to get a popup menu to let you Cut, Copy and Paste or Stop a Hold. To unhide your levels just click on the Show all levels command.Ĭlick on a frame number to display that frame as if you has paused the video playback on it.ĭrag and Drop works on any cel that has an image in it. In addition to adding levels you can also rename each level, step through the levels or lock and hide levels as well. The stepper control lets you add levels and although you cannot delete levels, you can limit the number of levels that appear in the Xsheet. To add levels touch and hold the level header to bring up the level dialog. To Insert, Add or Delete frames click on the >, +, – icons at the bottom of the Xsheet or you can touch and hold any frame number to pop up a menu with the relevant options. To Stop the Hold touch and hold any empty cel and select Stop Hold from the popup menu. Images in one frame will automatically hold through the following frames until they are replaced by another image or you Stop the Hold. So every row is a frame, every column is a level and each level has two layers, ink (the pencil lines) and paint. It’s vertical because that’s the way professional animators are used to working. The tools bars at the top and bottom of the window give you everything you need to produce broadest quality animation. You can pan, zoom and rotate the image to make easier to work on. It’s just like a media player with a few extra options for editing. The main window is where you will draw, paint and play your animation.
This User’s Guide is really short because FlipBook is so easy to use. The major studios and top animation schools use FlipBook because it works the way animators want to work and it’s easy to use so it doesn’t get in the way of your creativity. You can step back and forth through the frames you've shot and then right into the live frame to see exactly how it's going to look added on to the end of the scene so you know what you're going to get, and you get what you want.FlipBook is made for people who love to draw and want to do traditional 2D animation. You can even use it to combine 2D, 3D and live action.įlipBook is great for stop motion too. It will help you breakdown your dialog for perfect lip sync. You can use FlipBook to experiment with different timing for sketches of your key frames without having to wait for rendering. Other programs may be OK if all you want to do is ink & paint but animators use FlipBook.įlipBook can also help you do 3D animation. That's why professional animators at every major studio and teachers at the best animation schools demand FlipBook. Whether you want to do 2D, 3D or Stop Motion Animation, DigiCel FlipBook Makes Animation Easier! FlipBook is the only 2D animation software designed from the ground up to do 2D animation the way animators want to do it.