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outline on whole layers/characters in anime studio

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:17 pm
by xothermik
hi all. im working on an animation and am trying to achieve a style i saw in a mr bean animated cartoon video follow link below to see what i mean.
i dont know if its possible to create the kind of outline seen on all characters and elements and not just on shapes. an alternative of course is to do it in comp outside anime but then u'd have to render out several different characters and object image sequences. so id really appreciate it if anyone can point out a method, trick or even script for doing this in anime studio. would really appreciate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGWandarg4

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:52 pm
by Víctor Paredes
You can achieve that look adding a hard shadow to each character layer. I mean, not to every single vector layer, but to the bone layer (or parent layer) of each character.
Mike posted this technique some time ago
viewtopic.php?p=77379

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:00 pm
by xothermik
wow that was quick.(honestly i was hoping it wud be) thanks a lot man.

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:24 pm
by Víctor Paredes
:wink:
This forum is really fast most of the time, more when questions are well explained.