From the course: Creating 2D Animation in Harmony

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Cleaning up lines and color

Cleaning up lines and color

- [Voiceover] It's time to color the character now. Before I do that, I just wanted to show you a couple of things. I've made a timing chart layer here. I find sometimes when I work, it's nice to have the charts where they used to be on the old hand drawn paper, but sometimes it's nice to remember that we're actually, you know, able to put all our timing charts on one master layer also. So you could rub them out here, or have them on a totally different layer, so you can switch them on and off. So in this case, what I've done is I've built just a layer called Charts. And if I have like many, many, many charts, I can see, like a bird's eye view of the overall timing. So keep it in mind, another little trick you can use. Don't be afraid to develop new ways to work with this medium. So what I want to do now is to show you that one very nice feature in this program, and that is a way to color in. Now you know, back when we used to paint this with cel on acetate, that this kind of line…

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