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Lining the character

Lining the character - Harmony Tutorial

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Lining the character

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- [Instructor] I've just reopened the file that I made in the last movie and I've added a few layers, eye pupil, eyeball, skull, arm right hand, arm right lower, and arm right. Notice that there's little dots because the program doesn't allow us to use spaces. I also use lowercase because then it fits more letters in, it's less squishing of the text. I user uppercase for the important things like right side and left side. My naming convention actually has a strict logic to it. If you follow something like this, it'll help you to read like arm right left, arm left, arm right upper, arm left lower, et cetera. It's a very structured way to be able to read what's going to be a very complex text stack, anyway. Let's go to the alien swatch, so we're always working with the correct color pallet, and let's start aligning the character. I'm just going to start lining the front figure. We won't worry about this guy, we're just going to start working in the front. It's a good practice to line…

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