From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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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Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes7m 6s
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Managing, renaming, and deleting drawings5m 9s
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Managing exposures on Xsheet8m 26s
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Onion Skin5m 12s
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Cleaning up drawings with the Brush and Cutter tools3m 8s
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Convert lines to fills3m 1s
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Groups1m 46s
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Pivot, scale, skew, and distort8m 49s
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Flip vertical and flip horizontal1m 41s
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Optimize shapes2m 18s
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Distribute to layers53s
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Layer hierarchy (z-nudge)5m 52s
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Arrange elements in depth2m 25s
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Painting highlights, gradients, and shadows8m 41s
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Working with the grid1m 44s
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Trace bitmap3m 25s
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Importing Flash SWF5m 6s
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