Storyboard Layers

Storyboard Layers

https://learn.toonboom.com/modules/layers1

When we look at layers, it's like this childhood game. What is on top is seen first and the top layers can cover what's underneath.

Layers

• allows you to keep separate elements in your panels, such as backgrounds, characters, and props, into separate drawing spaces, as well as to manipulate or animate them if needed.

Layer Types

• A character or prop layer (A)

• a background layer (BG

Layer Types

• Vector Layers

• Bitmap Layers

• 3D Layers

• Group

Multiple Choice

Which colour is the bitmap layer sidebar?

• black

• blue

• green

• red

Vector Layers

• made of points and curves that compose the contours of the shapes of the artwork

• can be scaled up and zoomed in without losing quality unless they contain a texture.

• each drawing stroke and pencil line is a separate object which can be manipulated individually.

Bitmap Layers

• composed of a grid of pixels

• allow you to lay on brush strokes onto a single flat canvas, and to tweak your artwork by the pixel if needed.

•  composited into the canvas, so it remains a single drawing that can only be painted or erased upon, but which does not allow you to tweak individual parts of it.

Multiple Choice

How do you add a bitmap layer to your current panel?

• click on the >> button at the upper left corner of the layer toolbar and selecting add bitmap layer

• from the top "layers" menu "add bitmap layer" button a the bottom of the layer toolbar or right- clicking the layer toolbar

Multiple Choice

How do you select multiple layers inside the same panel?

• by pressing the lock button

• by clicking and dragging

• by selecting and then pressing ctrl and clicking each layer

Multiple Choice

What is one way to tell if a layer has no art on it?

• the icon on the side of the layer displays closed eyes

• the word empty is by the name of the layer

• the layer has a red sidebar

3D Layers & Groups

• 3D: import a 3D model into your library, adding it to a panel will store the model into a 3D layer. You can then manipulate and animate the 3D model, just like you can with a drawing layer.

• A group can contain several layers of any type. Just like you can transform and animate a layer, you can also transform and animate a group.

Multiple Choice

What is the advantage of using Vector Layers?

• resolutions independent and lighter

• easy to maneuver and possibility of changing opacity

Multiple Choice

What is the advantage of using a bitmap layer?

• can use textures

• it doesn't use pixels

Merging Layers

• results in a single drawing layer, which you can edit and animate like any other drawing layer

• When merging layers, the animation on all layers being merged is discarded

• If you quickly merge a bitmap layer with a vector layer, the resulting layer will be a bitmap layer

Continued

• Vector Layer: Makes the merged layer a vector layer. If there are bitmap layers in your selection, they will be converted to vector rectangles with a bitmap texture inside them.

• Bitmap Layer: Makes the merged layer a bitmap layer. If there were vector layers in your selection, they will be converted to bitmap.

Changing Layer Opacity

• opacity= alpha

This is a perfect example of what layers look like if you're standing over them

Transforming Layers

• Layer Transform tool

• rotate

• scale

• move

• resize