From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Cleanup
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Cleanup
- So now, let's look at cleanup. And this is in case you need to really put a black line -- let's say you want to paint these characters with a paint program like Illustrator or Photoshop, Flash, Toon Boom Harmony, TVPaint, one of those guys. So let's take a closer look at these. We have four on the left, we'll begin there. There is a pretty clean tie down, but let me go in close, you can see it's still not quite perfect. It looks nice enough, but there are still gaps here, and little holes in it. So let's move on to the next one and see a cleanup pass. Now this, certainly it works, it's all black lines and it closes off the areas, but it's just not really good. And the reason why is because it's been traced, and if you go back and forward, it's as if somebody just went in with a marker pen and just drew down a solid black line directly over the original artwork and didn't try very hard to make anything interesting happen. And that's just not adequate. So let's take a look at a…
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