From the course: Toon Boom Harmony Essential Training
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Drawing keys and breakdowns - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Toon Boom Harmony Essential Training
Drawing keys and breakdowns
- [Instructor] In a previous movie, I described the difference between drawings, exposures, and keyframes, and how keyframes in Harmony are digital keyframes that control the tweening and the rotation of computer-controlled in-betweens. Of course, we can still use a keyframe in the original sense of the word, meaning a drawing, and that's what we're going to do now. So here, I've created a head. A very simple drawing looking to the left, and I want to do a series of drawings, keyframes, breakdowns, and in-betweens where we turn to the right. So let's see how we begin to do that. So on this drawing here, that will be the frame looking to the far right. And if I begin to draw now, I don't know where I'm coming from, or even what to do. So I need to put on onion skinning, and that's this icon here. Now the problem now is I can't see anything, so we stretch the onion bars to the beginning, and now I can just about see the original drawing. Now the problem here is that I'm seeing a very…
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