From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Working with the grid - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Working with the grid
- A feature of Flash that I'm very fond of is the Grid. And you can set any size grid you like, any aspect ratio you like, any color you like. And let's just set that grid to Show and you see what I mean We can make this look any number of ways. So the Toom Boom Grid is more traditional in the sense that it looks like the old animation grid. And let's go into the drawing view so we can really see it. And this is the 12 field. You can see the number 12 there, field guide. This was a transparent cell layer that we would put beneath the drawings and then put the back one on beneath that and you could plan out your scenes using various field settings. And honestly, in this day and age of working digitally, it's a complete anachronism. It's designed to be familiar to traditional animators and it's the one feature of this program I wish Toom Boom would just make it optional and let's have something like the Flash Grid. The nearest we can get to that will be under the View menu. Go to Grid…
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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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