The BEST Effects For Adding Shadows and Highlights In OpenToonz

Here’s a walkthrough of how I added shadows and highlights to a drawing using OpenToonz effects.
I show the contents of the columns; how I’ve organised my drawings, the lines, colours, shadows and highlights.
And then I show all of the effects that I used and the order of their connection to create the shadow and highlight effect. The effects that I used are the most common that I do use for other results. To help you, I’ve added a timestamp to each effect (in the description and shown if you hover over the timeline)

Contents:
00:00 Introduction & a tour through the columns
04:20 Looking through the effects
05:25 The Matte In effect
06:10 The Transparency effect
07:28 The Blur effect
09:58 The Glow effect
11:50 Overlay nodes

Different ways to add shadows:
   • Adding Shadows - OpenToonz tutorial  
   • Adding shadows & highlights using the...  

Creating a macro of your effects:    • Combine your FX in OpenToonz with FX ...  

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