

Just for one example: is "Spacing" in Photoshop the same thing as "Step" in TVPaint ? I understand that TVPaint may not have an exact equivalent brush parameter for each Photoshop brush parameter, but I'm wondering which of TVPaint's brush parametersĪre more or less equivalent to the Brush Parameters listed in Photoshop ? Transfer, Brush Pose, Noise, Wet Edges, Build-Up, Smoothing, Protect Texture ? What I mean is, what are the equivalent parameters for Photoshop's Shape Dynamics, Scattering, Texture, Dual Brush, Color Dynamics, " The final step is also the longest: adding the same parameters as the Photoshop brush to the one you created in TVPaint.Īside from the basic settings of your brush, other important parameters can be reproduced using brush connections, which define how some aspects your brush will react to external factors (for example, linking opacity to pen pressure)."Ĭan anyone tell me how to interpret the Photoshop brush parameters to match the brush parameters we have in TVPaint ? It does allow for exporting the brush image to PNG. The unregistered version can only display 5. pilot.html, but unfortunately there is no way to register it. It works on Mac OS Mojave, but not on Catalina or BigSur. There was also Brush Pilot for Mac, which is no longer developed or supported. It is iOS only, so you would need to extract the brush image you want, save it as a PNG, then transfer it to your Mac Then copy it to a Custom Panel to save it.)īR/TPL/PAT Viewer - ($1.99 from App Store) allows you to open, view and extract images from abr (brushes), tpl (tool presets) and pat (patterns) files. abr image, so you must take a screen shot of it and then import it to TVPaint, resize it to the correct size for a custom brush, then cut to a brush and adjust the custom brush parameters until you gets a brush that behaves like the brush you were using in Photoshop. (unfortunately this viewer does not allow you to export a selected. abr file and press the space bar to view the brushes in the. Unfortunately both ABRMate and ABRViewer are Windows-only, so Mac users must look elsewhere.Īfter installing BrushView Quicklook, to view any. abr Photoshop brush file and export the shape of the brush tip as a. "free programs such as ABRMate and ABRViewer allow you to open the. Most of the time it's only a few special brushes that are their main "go-to" brushes in PS, so it's not a matter of having to duplicate the hundreds of different brushes that have been created for Photoshop, it's just a few. (even though a program like TVPaint could be used to paint BG layers as well as handling the animation layers.) I've spoken with many freelance animation artists who tell me they would like to do all their work in TVPaint, but they have favorite brushes in Photoshop for painting backgrounds or certain types of textures, so they would be happy if those brushes from PS could be replicated in TVPaint. On productions where animation is done in TVPaint or another program like Harmony, most of the time the background art is painted in Photoshop and imported into the animation program. PS brush tools are what they are familiar with and prefer using. I think the main reason for wanting Photoshop brushes recreated in TVPaint is for background painting or illustration, because most artists in the industry who paint background art for animation are accustomed to using Photoshop. And there are many, many fine TVPaint custom brush sets shared in the Contents Sharing forum if you want various types of pens and pencils for more variation in the line work for animation or additional custom brushes for painting illustrations or animation backgrounds. There is nothing "broken" about the TVPaint brushes that necessarily needs to be "fixed" by the addition of Photoshop brushes. That brings up a good point: the default brush tools in TVPaint work perfectly well for animation. has translated his PS brushes into TVP, but so far I've only seen him animate/color with the tools TVPaint already comes with.Īaron uses his PS brushes only for painting, not for animation.
