How to draw dots

jeffcruz · Post by **jeffcruz** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:38 pm

Hello all,

I'm new to animation and am absolutely loving Anime Studio. It's such a powerful program.

Here's what I need help on: I've drawn a strawberry and I would like to draw the little yellowish "dots" that are on the outside of strawberries.

I know I can do it with the draw shape tool, but it seems really cumbersome because the dots have to be small and have a yellowish fill. So when I do it with the the draw shape tool I get this shape that is basically surrounded by red points and I can barely see what I've drawn.

Any simple way to do this like how one might do it in Photoshop or something with a colored brush or something? Because I have to make like 50 of them, I'd like to do it the easiest way possible. I know this is a stupid question, but I can't get it. Thanks!

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:31 pm

You know that you can zoom in almost infinitely?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:35 pm

You can make dots and save it to the clipboard and use the scatter brush or you could just use an image texture like this.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:43 pm

There's also the fill effect spots. You need to hit ctr+r to see the effect after you apply it. The scatter brush would make it too point heavy if you need to make as many of these as you say. The image texture would also be a good option like sbtamu said.

jeffcruz · Post by **jeffcruz** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:44 pm

Yes, I was doing that for a while but I just thought that there might be a way to do it without the shape tool. To just dab the dots on like painting on a canvas. But what you're saying works...just trying to find an alternative.

As I mentioned, I'm new to animation and it seems like everything you draw in Anime Studio is treated as a shape? I'm assuming this makes things easier to animate if they're treated like shapes as opposed to just a "dot" on a surface.

Maybe I need to rethink the way I look at drawing when in comes to animation.

jeffcruz · Post by **jeffcruz** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:46 pm

Sorry, I didn't see the two other replies before I posted mine.

Image texture sounds like a good option. I'm not sure I know how it works. Any good tutorials on that?

drumlug13 · Post by **drumlug13** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:13 pm

There's a tutorial on Image Texture in the Users Manual.

Tutorial 4.4: Image Textures on page 115. It will walk you through it.

jeffcruz · Post by **jeffcruz** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:42 am

Thanks to all that replied. I appreciate it. The Image Texture option worked great!