From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Symbols - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Symbols
- Now we'll see how to make symbols in Harmony and compare with how they work as opposed to Flash. So there's two ways of doing it, one, we can select the name here on the left side of the Timeline and just hit F8, let's do that. And then click Ok. Or we can select a drawing or a range of drawings on the right side and do the same thing, F8. And if you're wondering where they are, they're in the Symbols folder. So here's the first one, and let's drag that onto the Stage. And actually, before I do that, I'm going to switch off Animate Mode because it's making keyframes and there's no reason to do that, unless we want to. So I'm going to drag that to there and let's drag the second one too. And if we play these, you'll see for some reason that this one here is longer. So let's have a look at why. That's the middle one, so double-click on him. And this was the one that we made from clicking F8 on this area, and let's turn the entire available visible Timeline into a symbol including all…
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Motion tweening (using keyframes)4m 30s
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Guide layers1m 33s
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Easing in and out3m 20s
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Adding nested drawings5m 39s
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Navigating through the timeline2m 9s
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Shape tweening8m 54s
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Advanced shape tweening12m 26s
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Creating a body comp7m 51s
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Creating a head and mouth comp13m 13s
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Bones IK rig5m 18s
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Fixing layer issues with z-depth6m 28s
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Hand comp6m 53s
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Eye blink7m 14s
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Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Premium9m 13s
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Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Essentials3m 12s
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Completing the IK rig12m 28s
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Copying and pasting frames, exposures, and drawings4m 9s
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Duplicating characters and layers6m 7s
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Symbols4m 12s
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Opening an external library9m 39s
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Effects8m 34s
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Labels2m 21s
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Camera moves7m 38s
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