Peg holes registration
“Pegs” are little holes made in paper sheets to hold them together on a “peg bar”, in order to draw and animate.
If you want to scan an animation made on paper and use a scanner with feeder, you will notice your sheets are not stabilized and so, when playing the animation, the result is really unpleasant.
To fix this problem, TVPaint Animation contains a tool named Peg-Holes Registration. The Peg-Holes Registration is a very useful option to quickly and efficiently scan animations made on paper. In fact, this option realigns the animation, thanks to the peg holes.
We’ll use the Pegs Registration_David Nethery Project from the Example Projects to show how to use this tool.
First, click on the Window > Animation > Peg-Holes Registration main menu. A little window like this will appear:
This Panel let you configure the peg holes detector's size (Height and Width). To see the peg holes detector on your Canvas, click on the Set Peg Positions button:
Place the two red rectangles so they cover the area of the original peg holes. Modify their size to precise the alignment and make sure they don't touch the green rectangles throughout the animation.
Be careful: do not set the red rectangles too close from the pegs! Keeping a safe area around the pegs will make the registration process more efficient.
Once things have been set, click on the Apply button. The animation will be re-aligned automatically. Note that you can choose any image from your animation to set the Peg-Holes Registration: the Layer will be entirely re-aligned in any case:
