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Learning Anime Studio

You're reading from   Learning Anime Studio Bring life to your imagination with the power of Anime Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849699570
Length 354 pages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Learning Anime Studio
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Stepping into the World of Animation FREE CHAPTER 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

Applying shadows and shades to the layer


Under the Shadows tab are three options that allow you to create different shading and shadowing effects for your layers. This can be great if you want to add a quick drop shadow or create the effect that your layer is being shaded due to different lighting.

You may keep your LayerSettings.anme project file open for this part of the exercise. With your Layer Settings panel still open, be sure to click on the Shadows tab to the right-hand side of the General tab. The following steps will help you understand how to apply shadows to your layer:

  1. Check the Shadow on checkbox.

  2. Set the Offset field to 50. This value determines how detached the shadow appears from the layer.

  3. Set the Blur value to 18. Increasing this value will make the shadow appear more out of focus. A lower number will give the shadow a sharper look.

  4. Set the Expansion value to 13. Expansion determines how far your shadow reaches out from the origin point.

  5. Changing the Shadow direction value will...

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