Timeline Window: There are two ways to communicate about and organize your animation work in Toon Boom Studio, they are the Exposure Sheet and the Timeline. These window panels are fully integrated and actually combine to form a single animation managment mechanism. The Exposure sheet, x-sheet, is for managing and organizing your drawings or cells.The Timeline is for communicating instructions to your animation assistant the TBS rendering engine.

The TBS rendering engine is that part of the application that publishes your animation project. It is often not clearly understood. It is more than just something that generates output movies. The rendering engine is a significant part of your animation production team. It's not a person, but it is your loyal assistant. It is there for you to control and instruct and it follows every one of your instructions, even when you give it incorrect instructions inadvertently. The rendering engine is your animation camera operator, and it is also your special effects technician and your in betweening assistant. It gets its instructions through key framed attributes, segments both constant and non-constant, function curves and peg hierarchies. The central point around which you create and communicate these instructions is the Timeline Window.

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