From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Groups - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Groups
- It's really important that a Flash animator understand the difference between groups in Flash and groups in Harmony. I never weary about telling Flash artists to never use groups. It's a disaster in that program. However, they have groups in Harmony and the behavior is different. They're called groups but don't be afraid of them. And let me show you why you want to use them in this program. So here is a square that hasn't been grouped. And as you can see we can separate the line from the color. And many times you want to do that. So let me select that and see if I can just go in and move the line by itself. In that case not so let me just see if I can Pray tell I can do that. There we go. So as you can see that can be useful many times. On the right side we have one that's in the same state, so let's group the one on the right. I'm just going to draw a box around and select both. So now we right-click and go Group. And then Group or Ctrl+G. So now when I click on any part of this…
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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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