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00:00 When you want to affect the spline or the path that your animation follows, you can

00:07 adjust several things like tension, continuity, and bias. I know it sounds alien and it also

00:13 sounds like a really cool band from the 60s. But what we can do is when you click on a

00:18 peg that has animation on it, and as you can see I have these three frames here, or keyframes

00:23 that actually have some animation on it, I can control how this path works. So let's

00:30 go ahead and talk about how we can actually access those properties for these keyframes.

00:36 So I'm going to go to the first keyframe here. I'm going to click on this tool to enable

00:40 these path points. And when I click on one, all of a sudden I have these new properties,

00:47 tension, continuity, and bias. So let's talk about the first point here. So what in the

00:52 world is tension, continuity, and bias? And why do I keep saying it? So tension allows

00:58 us to change the actual amount of curvature in this animation spline. So if I click on

01:05 this guy here for example, I can go to a negative one to get a nice curve on this animation,

01:14 which gives me a nice fluid motion. Or I can go to a more linear by having it down to one.

01:22 Or I can go in the middle to have a nice medium point of that. So what in the world is continuity?

01:29 Well continuity will allow me to take this path, let me go ahead and click on that point,

01:34 and what I can do is I can break it up a little bit. So I can go between a tension and a continuity

01:39 and break that path up. So my tension is negative one and now the point is broken. So you can

01:47 do all kinds of bouncing animations with that. So I'll put these back again. What bias will

01:54 do is control the spine slope so that it leans or slopes towards one end of the motion path

02:00 control point. So if I click on this point again, I can take the bias and it slopes that

02:06 way when I'm on negative one and when I'm on one it goes this way. So I can get a nice

02:11 roller coaster effect so the object is going up and it goes down like that. And I can't

02:18 even believe that I'm doing all this tech talk because I'm a very creative person so

02:22 when I do this lesson on tension and continuity of bias I normally need to go lie down and

02:27 just think about things like nothing when I do this so I can get back into the creative

02:31 mode. But as an animator we have to learn about the function editor and we have to learn

02:36 about these things so we can get more realistic and more smooth motions. Or sometimes if we

02:41 just want the animation to be very linear, that as well. So you have the ability to change

02:46 all those guys by once again clicking on a point and using this tool here and you can

02:52 really change the look and feel of your animation.

02:59 Animation applications have one thing in common. They all have some kind of timeline. The timeline

03:07 usually lives at the bottom of the interface and it gives you the ability to scrub through

03:12 the frames of your animation. Now this little red guy here has different names based on

03:16 the application you're in. It could be called the current time indicator, the playback head,

03:22 the frame marker, it just has a lot of names. But it does one thing. It allows you to click

03:28 and drag it to move through your frames. And you can see what frame you're on right here.

03:35 So here's the name of the scene and here is the frame I'm on. Scrubbing allows you to

03:42 really focus on your animation and watch what's happening.

03:48 We also have these numbers here and these are the frame indicators. So this is frame

03:53 10, 20, 30 and of course we have the ones in between which would be 11, 12, blah blah

04:00 These guys here are the elements in this particular timeline and the order they're in represent

04:07 the order they appear inside of the particular scene as well. So as you can see here the

04:12 image is all the way on the bottom of the stack. I'll go ahead and hide that and when

04:16 I come back up here it goes away. So this image is all the way in the background and

04:21 my camera can be moved to the top if I want to. I simply drag it to the top of the stack.

04:27 Now we have a couple of icons here. The eyes here will actually follow your cursor around

04:33 and you can hide everything by clicking on the eyeball. So you can hide all your elements

04:39 and bring them all back in one fell swoop. As you saw with the image I can click on something

04:44 and simply hide it this way as well. If I want to focus on something I can then click

04:53 on the solo button. For example, let's say I want to focus on Hammy's arms. I click on

04:58 this icon and everything kind of goes away and I can just focus on that. So that is solo

05:04 mode. These buttons allow me to add or delete elements. So if I want to add a new element

05:11 I click there. I'm given a new element dialog box and I can choose what type of element.

05:16 Drawing, Image, Sound and so on. I can name it, I can give it a number and I can also

05:23 click OK or Cancel. So I go ahead and say OK. This button here allows me to delete an

05:30 element so I go ahead and click on that guy and it goes away. You might notice also that

05:36 if I simply hover my mouse over a button I get a tooltip telling me what it does and

05:41 what it's called. I can add a drawing element, I can delete elements, add new elements and

05:48 I can also work with pegs. I can add a new peg or I can add a parent peg. I'll talk more

05:55 about pegs later. I can also choose the scene I want to work with. So if I have five scenes

06:02 click on the list and choose what I want. I can also go to my contextual menu right

06:08 here and I can access functionality like show or hide, parameters, changing colors, locking

06:15 layers, cloning elements and so on. I also have the ability by the way to go here which

06:23 will split my timeline. So if you have a particularly long animation you can decide what to focus

06:30 on in each part here. So I can have the first few frames in this one, the last few frames

06:34 in this one and I can really look at different pieces of my animation at one time. Click

06:40 on the button again to go back. And that is the timeline. You should get very familiar

06:45 with this guy because you can be spending pretty much 90% of your time here once you

06:49 have all your elements in place. You can easily animate transformations such as scaling, skewing

07:00 and rotation by using the scene planning tools and you don't even have to use pegs to do

07:05 it. So I have this rectangle that I created by going here to my rectangle tool and I filled

07:10 it in with a blue color. Now in my timeline you see that I have nothing but one frame.

07:17 So on frame 30 I'm going to right click right here and add a keyframe. And I'm also going

07:22 to right click again and extend that exposure so that that shape will show up for all those

07:28 frames. I'm also going to add a keyframe on frame 1. So we have two keyframes and on both

07:35 keyframes the rectangle is the same size. So I'm going to go to frame 30, go to my scene

07:41 planning tools and grab this guy right here, our transform tool and I'm going to scale

07:46 it down just like that. Now watch what happens when I scrub. We have some animation people.

07:55 We can even add some rotation. So I'm going to go to the first frame this time. I'm going

08:00 to grab this handle and I'm going to spin this guy like this. And we have some more

08:07 animation. So we have transformations as far as rotation and scale. We can even skew this

08:14 guy by going to the sides here. So I'll go ahead and just drag it like that. And we have

08:21 rotation, skewing and scale. How awesome is that? So as you can see you can either right

08:28 click in the timeline to add a keyframe or interactively just make a change somehow.

08:36 And you can even move it around or whatever you want to do depending on the tool you have.

08:40 And you can stretch it or whatever you need to do and it will add that keyframe for you

08:44 as you can see here. As I go through my timeline every change I make has a new keyframe added

08:49 to it. So watch this. It's just a rectangle going wild people. And that is how you can

08:56 animate transformations inside of Toon Boom Studio using no pegs and using automatic keyframes

09:04 as well as keyframes that we added manually.

09:07 Thank you.

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