From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes

Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes - Harmony Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes

- One of the key concepts in understanding Harmony and the way it works, is the difference between drawings, exposures, and keyframes. Get into the habit of using these terms clinically. Do not start talking about drawings if you mean an exposure or vice-a-versa, So, precisely, here's what I mean. A drawing is a piece of artwork, it could be a frame of a single image of a ball, or a hand, a mouth, an entire body, that's a drawing. An exposure is the number of frames for which that drawing is on the screen. It could be one frame, it could be two, it could be 5000. Keyframes, these are the digital transformations, that we apply to the drawing. These are mapped cross exposures, now in the program Harmony they're going to appear as little rectangular black blobs. These are keyframes, and these, if you want to squash an image, stretch it, rotate it, distort it, that information will be held inside the little keyframes. So with that we have these three basic concepts, now I'm going to show…

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