I've talked with other animators and they agree: they would prefer to work in TVPaint all the time, but are often forced to work in Harmony (which tends to be more widely used in the industry, at least here in North America), but if there were an easy way to automatically transfer all the layers and drawings (only talking about LINE art, no color, no FX) to Harmony, then as the line art is vectorized coming into Harmony, the production can send it on through their pipeline to have the coloring done in Harmony. In fact it will happen for me more that I work for a client who finishes off in ToonBoom (or others) rather than TVP since those softs are written more for commercial production." Not everybody wants to finish off his animation in TVP. It would be a nice option in TVP to have a way to output the drawings only, numbered and an accompanied x-sheet. ( not my choice) My client does not want to receive all the frames, because the amount of images to color booms enormously. "I am working on a project for someone else. What I need is something similar to what happens with the JSON export script for taking the scene into AE with the layers and exposures intact. If I export my animation from TVPaint as an image sequence (PNGs) it exports all the FRAMES, not only the instances (with exposures intact).
Harmony has a subscription service that can be activated and deactivated by the month) I am resurrecting this very old topic because I have a similar situation : animation and clean-up in TVPaint, client wants to finish in Harmony for coloring, because he can get it done cheaper at a digital ink & paint service that is already set up for a Harmony workflow or with freelancers who own Harmony (not as many people own TVPaint and it is more expensive than Harmony. Is it possible to make a similar script to export drawings/layers that can be opened in Harmony ? Now these many years later we have the JSON export script to take our TVPaint scenes over to After Effects. " with D." > exporting the speadsheet, + the source sequence(s) in folder(s) labelised by the name of the column(s), " > exporting the spreadsheet content only The ultra-perfect XSheet exporting feature could offer a couple of options : (or are we insignificant in nb, regarding the whole tvpa users community who mostly work from A to Z all their projects "at home", I mean with tvpaint.) txt) format, imo, it wouldn't be a big work to add such XSheet Export command, and would be a big + for some of us, animator-mercenaries and freelances who use to work with other studios as a link of a chain. +1 !Īnd we have already near all needed, XS-layers, with Source-Layers (or Source-Projects) as dependencies,Īll we need now is a button in the XSheet tab, or much better an button which basically will export the spreadsheet content, in.
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To be more precise, don't forget to give a name to your exported images that corresponds to what you wrote in your manual xhseet, like "character1_line_001" Then, it will be easier to export your sequence. If you choose the second solution, before importing and after writing your xsheet, select all the instances in your layers and hit the red button "-1" into the "Animator Panel => Exposures", until you have only instances with 1 exposure.
write yourself the xsheet with an Excel or something like this : you will simply have to follow what you have in your screen, because all instances with several exposures have a little number at the end of the instance, in order to inform you how many expo do you have. learn to use the xsheet tab => it will take time and you won't be able to export it, so I'm not sure it is the best solution. Whatever, as I didn't know the context of your work, I tried to suggest you other ways to fix your problem =) generally, it's the contrary : people wants to start drawing on paper and finish on TVP Animation. In fact it will happen for me more that I work for a client who finishes off in ToonBoom (or others) rather than TVP since those softs are written more for commercial production. Hilere wrote:Not everybody wants to finish off his animation in TVP.
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