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Clean-Up Drawings - Back to the Drawing Board

When the roughs are done and the timing is all worked you're ready to start on the clean-up drawings. This is where you draw one nice steady line in place of the scribbles you had in your roughs. These are the drawings that will be painted and show up in your movie so you want the best quality you can get, even if it takes a little longer. That's why it's important to scan these drawings.

FlipBook makes scanning fast and easy too. It can scan the drawings right into the same frames where you put the roughs and it will clean up smudges and erasures while it scales, rotates and registers the images automatically.

There's also a despeckle feature to get rid of small dots left by dark spots on the paper, lint or eraser dust. And you can easily erase things outside of your characters like timing charts and scanning shadows from the edges of the images.