# Working with Custom Brushes

Custom brushes facilitate creating animations. You can paint on one frame, or stamp a custom brush onto all frames of an animation. A custom brush can also change as you paint on different frames, allowing you to move pieces of one animation to another.

Click on any of the topics below to select it:

- Painting with a custom brush
- Working with an existing animated brush
- Creating an animated brush using Anim Selection
- Saving animated brushes and selections

## For more information

Animation basics are discussed in Animation Basics. Advanced 3DO Animation explores some special effects, such as dissolving and distorting shapes and explains using key frames and the light table.

## Required files for working through examples

To work with some of the examples in this chapter, you need to have the example files Bird and Skiing available. They should be in the SampleArt folder in 3DO Animator folder on the Toolkit CD.