Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Here's my top 3 tips to help reduce drawing lag.

Contents:
00:00 Tip1: Turn down your smoothing
01:17 Tip 2: Try the default brush
02:09 Tip 3: Only enable the viewer preview when you need to
03:07 Bonus tips

Extra tips:
- Add OpenToonz & Tahoma2D to your Windows High Performance graphics options.
- Set your program to user your graphics card's high performance mode: youtu.be/XkAR9GtEUKU

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OpenToonz beginners guide: youtube.com/watch?v=rknKnBTxO8Y
Tahoma2D beginners guide: youtu.be/Qu-7-NjF_xU
More about me: youtube.com/c/DarrenTAnims/about

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