Sketch Blog

It’s great. No doubt about it. It’s still lacking in some very basic features suck as proper masking and clipping masks but it’s pretty damned good, especially for the price. What I liked the most was the power consumption. Plenty of apps now have great pressure sensitivity and paint like blending but a lot lack the ability to do so without killing your iPad or phone after 10 mintues. For me though Medibang Paint still has it beat in every aspect except one. The timelapse feature. I love how it similarly to OpenCavas only better and it doesn’t crash. The paint brushes are interesting and I like the simplicity of creating brush textures from photo’s. Inking was also quiet nice but again I prefer Medibang Paint because of the highly customisable line correction. It helps since my hands shake and the iPad I am using is very sensitive and new. However the pen quality, customisation and pen choices were very nice and fun to use. I enjoyed a lot of the more natural media brushes especi

OpenToonz Animation Timelapse from Draconian Rain on Vimeo . I made this in hopes of showing others that you don't need to be in a studio or use fancy software to make animation with cool looking effects. It's a shame that so many people strongly believe that you need After Effects to create anything halfway decent. It's simply not true. All you need is passion, determination, motivation and a willingness to not only learn but be prepared to do problem solving. After you learn OpenToonz, your only real roadblock is yourself. Keep trying guys. Just keep at it and please always use freeware to learn animation first because so many people after they realise there is not "do it for me" option and find out that you have to do everything yourself, these people give up while others come to find that despite the results they absolutely hate the process and also give up. Don't waste your precious money on paid software until you are certain that animation i

At some point, you will want to merge certain scenes or projects together. As long as you can navigate to the folder you saved it in, it's very easy to do. Just simply right click and "Load Level" and select the .tnz scene you wish to merge or add to a project. Then simply render as you normally would or send to a renderfarm if that's something you're into. My PC can handle rendering and I only make small projects so it's never been an issue for me personally. Just make sure to fully utilize the Sub-xhseet folder system and you could very easily have a neat and well polished project with a few simple clicks.

I've started to use Krita again in preference of photoshop. My only gripe is that for some reason my brushes won't export from my laptop properly and I only end up with about half of the brushes I put into the pack. It's very frustrating. Well anyway, there's really not much to say. This was an unplanned work I managed to record on livestream.

Ghosty Process Timelapse from Draconian Rain on Vimeo . It's no secret that I love everything bright and flashy in my art and I have a terrible habit of making my paintings and animations too busy. Which you will see happening in the timelapse video above. My goal was simple enough: Animate a simple ghost in no more than 15 frames at 12fps on loop. For whatever reason I couldn't get Ping Ping loop to work and a few times I tried copy, paste reversed and that was ok, but in the end I used motion path and made sure the movement was fluid enough to not need ping pong looping. I had planned out to keep everything super simple. A basic background or blank background, a simple cartoon ghost. But I couldn't help myself, I had to make the inner body look magical and like it had spiritual energy. Then I had an idea. A while ago now, I watched a TVPaint video where someone created animated brush strokes by holding CTRL while drawing on a series of empty instances. And no