Lesson 4: Building a Multiplane Scene


One of the great powers of Toon Boom Studio is the 3D scene space and the camera, which allows you to design multiplane moves and cinematic camera effects.

In this lesson, you’ll create a multiplane camera move that trucks-in on the action, as well as make that hot ant run across the stage. In the process of all this, you will also get to work a bit with templates.

There are two animation sets for this lesson:

To start the Building a Multiplane Scene lesson:

1. Open the Sceneplanning_Rough animation set in the Lesson4_Sceneplanning folder.

2. Save the animation in a location of your choice using File > Save As.

3. Play back the rough animation by selecting the Play command from the Play menu. Not really much to see, eh? Nothing moves, nothing happens. Go to Step 1 to create some more interesting visual effects in this scene.