Creating and Saving Animation Sets

When you are ready to build your animated production, you must create an animation set. An animation set is a project folder that contains all of the drawings, bitmaps, sounds, and effects in your animation, as well as all of the timing, layout and motion changes you build.

When you create your animation set, the name you select becomes the name of your project folder and the Toon Boom Studio project file. Inside your animation set folder are folders for:

Sound files
Local templates
Scenes

Each scene folder contains folders for vector drawings and bitmap graphics.

On the Mac, the animation set folder appears as a single file. If you show extensions, the extension of this file is .tbdp. To see the contents of the Toon Boom Project Directory, [Control]-click the file and select Show Package Contents.

To create an animation set:

Select File > New.

To save your changes to the animation set:

Select File > Save. If the animation set has never been saved, the Save As dialog box appears, which you can use to select the name and location of your project.

To save the animation set with another name or in another location:

1. Select File > Save As. The Save As dialog box opens.

2. Type the new name of the animation set.

3. Select a location to save the animation set.

4. Click Save to save the animation set with a new name or location.