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THUNDER THURSDAY #85: OpenToonz Tutorials Are Live!

Hey folks! For those wanting to learn OpenToonz, thanks again for your patience, and behold: my first few tutorials are online! Here’s the introductory collection (~35min total), or check below for links to individual sections :D

I’ve made a YouTube playlist with individual videos, and here are their separate links (times approximate):

Part 0: Introduction (2min)

Part 1: Installation (2min)

Part 2: The Startup Menu (2min)

Part 3: The Interface (3min)

Part 4: Levels & Drawing (7min)

Part 5: Drawing Frames (6min)

Part 6: The X Sheet  (5min)

Part 7: Saving (2min)

Part 8: Exporting a GIF (7min)

ENJOY! And if you have questions, feel free to ask (either here, or in the YouTube comments). Thanks for watching!

You’re wrong.

After a year, you notice that there are more people in your life. Your job isn’t solely populated by your boss, the secretary and the janitor who killed your best friend five years ago (which you can’t remember). Now there’s a woman named Mary-lee in the cubicle next to yours and a man named Gonzalez who works in a whole other department. Your company only had one department last year. Now it’s got two.

You stop shouting quite so much and you stop feeling the need to smirk every time you see someone making a fool of themselves. Your words are more reasoned now, more natural, and you find your conversations lasting longer with your new coworkers and neighbors. Your city grows, suburbs springing up overnight. The trees start losing their leaves in the fall and it’s not always night time when bad news arrives.

Your eyes aren’t orbs anymore, they’re just eyes.

When you run into your estranged brother in the hall of your apartment building, you wait for the ridiculous explanation for why he’d move in with you. Maybe every other house in the city is full? Maybe he didn’t know you lived there? Maybe it just “be like that sometimes?”

Turns out he’s not moving in. The woman he’s dating lives two doors down and he’s just as surprised as you. Small world.

Yes, it’s a bit contrived. Yes, it’s a little out of the blue. But, you realize, that’s how stories go. Sometimes they’re out of the blue. Making the out of the blue seem normal? That’s the mark of a true storyteller.

They’re getting better, you realize, watching your brother walk away. A lot better.

They’ve been writing your life everyday. You don’t know why you didn’t think about that. Of course they’re getting better. Through plot struggles and unpleasant writer’s block, they’ve stuck with you and your story.

Through everything, every shred of doubt, every shiny new idea, every criticism, they’ve stuck with you. They’ve worked hard to build your life around you. They’ve put in the time to get better, to give you better dialogue and a brilliant place to live and an exciting life.

They’ve grown for you.

IF YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO POST YOUR NSFW ART….

….yeah.

Hi, my names Ben and something happened today. I have been pushing myself since the beginning of October to work at a Walmart G-d bless my soul. Anyways it’s been way too much on me. I have stomach issues including but definitely and unfortunately not just ulcers. I suffer chronically from them and if I overwork my body by standing too long or lifting too much or generally working my body too hard or too long I get sick. And I don’t mean a sore throat and a headache. I get gut wretching stomach pain that feels like hot lead in my abdomen. And then the tasty cherry on top is tasting blood. If I don’t get shorter hours and keep pushing I even end up coughing/puking up blood. Well, it’s been long enough for my request for hours to be shortened to have gone through. And I’m guessing by the fact they have been scheduling me even longer than normal and my whole body can hardly stand walking at this point that they are giving me a big fuck you deal with it. Well, I have a disabled fiance to take care of so id love to get over this and push on but I can’t. If I keep letting my health deplete like this I’ll end up in the hospital for it (again). So bad news is I had to quit today. Good news is I already have another job.

That’s terrific. It’s a coffee shop who will work with me and likely let me sit while I’m not busy which will do wonders for my health. Finally, a job ill enjoy. But this sudden change isn’t without its setbacks. I don’t know how much they’ll be paying me but im basically prepared for minimum wage. Even so ill be fine so long as I can make it until they process my background check.

I’d love to be able to get groceries and pay my electric bill (normally 119 $) before I get a disconnect warning. And by groceries, I mean food staples to get us by for two weeks which is essential for a house of 3 people and 2 cats.

While flat-out donations are super appreciated I am a pretty proud person and would prefer no matter how small the amount, that you let me do something in turn. I do art and writing. I can write/draw oc stuff, fandom stuff, and just about anything. I’ll even make you a fursona lol. I can draw you up a dnd sheet, make you a whole new dnd oc, or even write an entry abt a dnd setting, monster, or class etc. I can also beta/edit writing for you. I’ll link some stuff below for reference.

This is my art blog, I do traditional and digital.

This is my ao3 which isn’t so impressive since I mostly write and edit original content (nowhere to really post that yet) but it’s a mild reflection of my work.

My PayPal is vjsevildoer@gmail

It’s 11/27/18 and my fucking electric is off. The forty bucks I got donated last week went mostly to gas so I could work extra hours to pick up the slack in this house. I have sixty dollars from my old jobs check. I need 84 dollars for them to be able to turn it back on in the morning. If just a couple folks could spot me some that’d be great haha help me, please.

lightning, very hot fire

snow storms, ice, frost on crops

some types of fungus/mold

corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person

clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person

fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster

bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places

poison

Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:

rich earth/soil

chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat

friendly animals/pets/creatures

a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.

a pleasant night

hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person

undisturbed water of a lake

the case/container of something important

valued wood, furniture, art

velvet