# Optimizing Drawing Objects for the Web

When you design your animation for the Web, you should consider taking steps to reduce the file size of your final animation. The smaller the file, the faster it downloads over the Internet, and the faster it will play on the machines of your audience.

Key to the production of small-sized animation is reducing the amount of points in your drawings. The fewer points you have in a line or a shape, the smaller the file size will be because each point requires memory to store it.

Shapes you draw with the Pencil , Line , Polyline , Rectangle and Ellipse tools create a minimum amount of points that run down the center of the shape. Strokes you draw with the Brush tool require more memory to store because the points that compose it run along the outside of the shape to create the variable-width effect.

Toon Boom Studio has a number of tools that you can use to reduce the number of points in your drawings, making them simpler and less heavy. You can use any of these commands to simplify your drawings and reduce the complexity and file size of your animation:

- Converting Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines
- Reducing Drawing Layers with the Optimize Command
- Reducing Drawing Layers with the Flatten Command
- Removing Points with the Smooth Command
- Merging Layers Using Draw Top Layer

See Also
Drawing Line Art
Cloning Elements
Creating Cycles