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Learning Anime Studio

You're reading from  Learning Anime Studio

Product type Book
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849699570
Pages 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Chad Troftgruben Chad Troftgruben
Profile icon Chad Troftgruben

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Learning Anime Studio
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Stepping into the World of Animation 2. Drawing in Anime Studio 3. Exploring Layers and Timelines 4. Enhancing Your Art with the Layer Settings Panel and Style Palette 5. Bringing a Cartoon Character to Life 6. Developing Your Cartoon's Scenery 7. Creating a Library of Actions and Assets 8. Animating Your Characters 9. Exporting, Editing, and Publishing Index

Setting up a content folder


In order to take advantage of saving and reusing assets, you will first need to set up a content folder. Back in Chapter 1, Stepping into the World of Animation, we set this folder up after Anime Studio prompted us at startup. Assuming that you followed those directions, your content folder should already be set. However, if you decide at some point that you'd like to reassign the content folder, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Help | Set Custom Content Folder.

  2. The prompt gives you three options: Never, Not Now, and Choose, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Select Choose and your file browser will appear.

  4. You will now choose where you will be storing your custom Anime Studio assets on your computer, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Pick a location that is easy to remember. If you've already made a folder for the files we have saved for our character and scene, you may want to pick that as your folder and store future files in there. Once selected, you should be...

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