From the course: Advanced Storyboard Pro

Auto-fill over the entire scene - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

From the course: Advanced Storyboard Pro

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Auto-fill over the entire scene

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- [Instructor] Storyboard Pro allows us to autofill a layer with just one click. It also allows us to create the fill on a new layer, allowing more editing options. Let's take a quick look at this. So I've got this character with a very busy background behind her. So I want to fill her. So let's go to Layer, Generate Auto-Matte. Right now, the radius is set at 100. It could be set lower, it could be higher. What that means is how large of a gap it will automatically fill so that we can fill our character. Let's go ahead and lower that down to 35 just to see how that looks. You can choose any color you want. Let's give her kind of a pale yellow. Create matte on new layer means that it will create the color on a layer underneath my ink line. That will allow more more options in editing later, so I prefer that. Copy strokes to destination means it will actually take the lines and copy those onto the matte layer as well to potentially be able to quickly fill other areas. I'll click on OK. And there it is. It filled it beautifully. Notice this little area under her leg, which should be clear was filled because this gap was 35 pixels or smaller, automatically filled it. For quick fill, that's fine. Now, as great and as quick that is, Storyboard Pro also allows us to fill an entire scene of all the characters with just a couple clicks. So let me undo that. So let's take a look how far back in the scene does that character show up? Not there, oh, there she is on the second panel. So there's my line layer and it's called Ink. Now, to do an entire scene, I need to make sure that her line work is named exactly the same in every panel. So there she is. Ink and ink. Ink. Ink. Ink. Ink, and ink, yeah, they're all named the same. So that's great. So here's all you have to do. Make sure that you selected the layer you want to fill. Then hold down Control and Shift or Command and Shift if you're on a Mac. And then click on the last frame of that sequence. So you'll see I started on the second where we first saw that character. And all the way to the end. I'll go to Layer, Generate Auto-Matte. Let's change the color a little bit. Let's make her more of a peach. Click OK. I'm going to keep these same settings, raise it 35, see how that works throughout the whole scene. Click OK again. Great, let's go to the beginning. Oh, we've missed part of her here. Little bits of her up on this one. We're missing leg and her tail on panels seven and eight. And also, it looks pretty good but we've got a few missing, so I'm going to Control + Z out of there. So let's make that adjustment. So let's go back, select my Ink layer on the first panel she appears. Control + Shift on a PC, Command + Shift on a Mac and then click on the last frame. We're going to go to Generate Auto-Matte but this time, we're going to take this up to 100 pixels. See if that solves our problem. We go back to the first one. She's just about all filled. Tiny little piece it missed but it's okay. And on seven and eight, well, we've got her leg and tail filled in there, so we're looking pretty good. So as long as you properly name your layers, autofill over an entire scene can be done probably 20 to 50 times faster for quickly filling in your characters.

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