I’m hoping this isn’t a total noob question, but I am new to toonboom, though not to art/animation.
Using the pencil tool (polyline tool, really), I’ve drawn a mouth for a character, then drew some teeth for said mouth. I have the teeth on their own separate layer so I can use the same teeth for each version of the mouth where appropriate.
Then, when I need a version of the mouth to have teeth, I’ll draw the lips in the correct position, go to the teeth layer and copy the teeth, and past them into the mouth drawing. The teeth extend past the lips by design so I can use them for any sized mouth this character may have.
I then took the cutting tool and trim the lines of the teeth that extend past the lip lines.
However, in toonboom, the lip lines that the teeth lines cross sometimes “snap” to where the line was that I cut away or move in some other way.
As in, imagine drawing two parallel lines (like an equal sign = ) then drawing a vertical line through them. All three lines are separate. However, if the two lines of the equal sign are too close, when I cut one side of the vertical line, the two lines of the equal sign will “snap” together in the middle where the vertical line crossed them forming a weird X.
Not sure why cutting the vertical line would affect either of the two horizontal lines, but that is the issue I’m having.
I obviously don’t want a line I’m not cutting to be altered at all. I simply want to trim away the line that extends past them.
Is there some option in the cutting tool that is making the other lines (the lines that I’m not trimming) “snap” or move from where they were drawn that I can turn off?
Or, is there some other method I can use?
I did find that if I “group” the lip lines together and the teeth lines together before I use the cutting tool it is a little less destructive. But it doesn’t work all the time, and even then some of the lines that intersect the line being cut are moved or adjusted.
Thanks!
