Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
With a recent change to show the font style in the font chooser and being able to live preview text you've written, it seemed time to revisit the Type tool, for writing text on screen. This video runs through adding text to your projects using the Type Tool, shows how you can edit it to look different and how to animate it to add life for animation titles.
I try to speed through my explanations as quickly as I can and speeding up where necessary, but there's a lot to get through and I try to give out as many tips as possible along the way, but if you want to skip through the video, here's the list of topics I cover and timestamp links to jump to their place in the video.
Contents:
00:00 The Type tool
01:06 Adding text. Text options. New font selection features. Selecting and editing Text.
05:58 Editing the text outline
07:12 Adding an outline using a 2nd column
08:29 Adding an outline using an effect. Adding other fx : Blur & Glow.
10:28 Animating text with the Animate tool: Move/scale/shear
11:56 Using text in a custom brush
14:36 Use auto-inbetweening to animate text in a custom brush
15:14 Using the Plastic Tool. Animating individual letters.
16:50 Setting up plastic tool animation as though on a cloth (most flexible method)
19:31 Example 1: "Trampolining made easy"
20:09 Example 2: "Ghosts Vs Zombies"
21:14 Example 3: "OpenToonz" star wars style
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My full list of tutorials, including a beginners guide to getting started with OpenToonz:
youtube.com/watch?v=saDNGVj46Xc&list=PL-kyUCiIIVS7LQ5U1dUIJDrYRLiQzXTP_
Chat with OpenToonz animators & developers in an OpenToonz-specific discord:
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Intro/outro audio courtesy of Voltaire: youtube.com/user/VoltaireMusicPage
With a recent change to show the font style in the font chooser and being able to live preview text you've written, it seemed time to revisit the Type tool, for writing text on screen. This video runs through adding text to your projects using the Type Tool, shows how you can edit it to look different and how to animate it to add life for animation titles.
I try to speed through my explanations as quickly as I can and speeding up where necessary, but there's a lot to get through and I try to give out as many tips as possible along the way, but if you want to skip through the video, here's the list of topics I cover and timestamp links to jump to their place in the video.
Contents:
00:00 The Type tool
01:06 Adding text. Text options. New font selection features. Selecting and editing Text.
05:58 Editing the text outline
07:12 Adding an outline using a 2nd column
08:29 Adding an outline using an effect. Adding other fx : Blur & Glow.
10:28 Animating text with the Animate tool: Move/scale/shear
11:56 Using text in a custom brush
14:36 Use auto-inbetweening to animate text in a custom brush
15:14 Using the Plastic Tool. Animating individual letters.
16:50 Setting up plastic tool animation as though on a cloth (most flexible method)
19:31 Example 1: "Trampolining made easy"
20:09 Example 2: "Ghosts Vs Zombies"
21:14 Example 3: "OpenToonz" star wars style
Subscribe for new videos every Friday: youtube.com/c/DarrenTAnims?sub_confirmation=1
Follow me on Twitter for previews of upcoming tutorials, animations and behind the scenes:
twitter.com/DarrenTAnims
My full list of tutorials, including a beginners guide to getting started with OpenToonz:
youtube.com/watch?v=saDNGVj46Xc&list=PL-kyUCiIIVS7LQ5U1dUIJDrYRLiQzXTP_
Chat with OpenToonz animators & developers in an OpenToonz-specific discord:
discord.gg/FYy4Mg7
Intro/outro audio courtesy of Voltaire: youtube.com/user/VoltaireMusicPage
