How To Import Animation From Toon Boom Into After Effects

Importing and Vectorizing Images

Y'all can turn your images into vector drawings, while maintaining the sketchiness of a pencil line or into vector images with a bitmap fill. Both options can add life to an animation, which straight vectorization with smoothing does non usually afford.

To import and vectorize a bitmap image:

In the top menu, select File > Import > Images or click the ImportEpitome

button in the File toolbar.

The Import Imagesdialog box opens.

Click Browse to locate images.

You can create a new layer for your image or add it to an existing layer.

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To create a new layer, select
Create Layer(s) > Create Unmarried Layer Named and name your layer accordingly.

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To create a new layer using the file name, select
Create Layer(s) > Create Layer(s) Based on Filenames.

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To add the image to an existing layer, select Add together to Existing Layer and select the layer already created in your Animate scene from the drop-down menu. If only vector

layers are available in your scene (and therefore the drib-down bill of fare), you will either have to Vectorize Imported Items, Create Symbols for imported Items or check both options to put your bitmap paradigm on a vector layer.

To mix bitmap images with vector drawings on the aforementioned layer, the bitmap prototype must exist encapsulated in a Symbol and vice versa. When you check the option Create Symbol for Imported Items, these Symbols will also automatically exist added to your Symbol Library.

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In the Layer section, select the Vectorize Imported Items option.

In the Vectorization section, decide whether you desire to import your image in colour, black and white, grey, or if y'all want to add a new preset.

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Black and White: Vectorizes drawings as a solid blackness line; creates a 100% vector-based drawing.

Threshold%: The Threshold value filters out dissonance in your images. Racket can exist dirt or faint smudges on your scanned images. For example, if your value is ready to 70%, all colour values below 70% are converted to white and ignored in the final paradigm. If your value is set up to 100%, but completely blackness lines will be kept.

Expand: Enter a value betwixt ane and 100 to thicken lines or the outer edges of the bitmap. Utilize this option if your line art is too fine or pale so that their visibility is increased in the software.

Smooth: Enter a value betwixt one and 5 to ready the smoothness level. Greater smoothness equals less jaggedness and imperfections, but at a greater loss to particular.

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Colour: Vectorizes your image equally a colourful bitmap texture within a vector frame.

The vectorized images are painted with the Vectorize Line color swatch from the colour palette.

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Click Utilise to make the current settings visible on your image in the Preview section. Y'all can also select the Auto Apply option to automatically apply the changes as you edit the vectorization parameters.

In the Preview box, switch between the vectorized and source version of the paradigm by clicking Vectorized or Source.

Utilize the Scale slider to zoom in or out of your preview images.

Click OK.

A Symbol or new layer contains the vector cartoon. For images independent in a Symbol, double-click on the image's first jail cell in the Timeline view to enter the Symbol and then you can edit the prototype.