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. The brush settings still can be change under the brush panel.I wonder if Aaron B. We disable this option so we wont have upside down grass in our painting. In FireAlpaca, disable 'Rotate Along', 'Rotate Random'. In MediBang Paint Pro, disable 'Particle Rotate'.Disabling this give more solid colour painting. This type of brush will scatter the brushtip image and auto blend colours. This save us one extra step of saving the image.

Select the MDP or PNG brush tip file we just draw in the popup file browser.įor MediBang Paint Pro, it is possible to create a brush without saving the brush tip image first by using 'Add Brush (Bitmap) > From Canvas'. Since both softwares are similar, steps to create custom brush for them are similar too.ĭraw the brush tip shape for leaves and grass using the normal 'Pen' brush and save them as MDP or PNG format.Ĭonvert the image we draw into bitmap brush by clicking the 'Add Brush (Bitmap)' button under brush panel. In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create your leaves and grass brush with Medibang Paint Pro and FireAlpaca.

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