Creating backgrounds in Toon Boom

[Behonkiss]

I'm making the jump from Flash to Toon Boom Animate for my future animations, but I'm a bit confused about how making backgrounds in it works as far as the technique I used in Flash. Basically, I would draw a rough version of the background on paper, scan it in, then in Flash, ink, color, and further add to it as an individual layer. The video tutorials I've seen for Toon Boom Animate seem to point towards importing files like PSDs instead of what I've been doing. Would my approach still work with this software?

[KhanhCPham]

I have never created backgrounds directly on flash but I do use both flash and toon boom. If you created backgrounds on flash, you can import swf files into toonboom.

[ArtificialFlower]

I think you can do both. I just started using ToonBoom myself so I'm no expert. I've been making the backgrounds in a different art program then carrying them over. I think you can draw them in ToonBoom as well by tracing over your image. You'd have to trace in a different drawing element and have the light table on to see the previous elements.

I hope this is somewhat helpful.

[JKR]

You should be able to upload your scanned drawing into Toon Boom no problem, and continue the same way you've been working (but with the superior drawing tools Toon Boom offers!). Just use the file Import option and away you go.