From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Essentials - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Essentials
- This is the technique for applying the very same effect where we mask the eye pupil inside the eye ball and this is the technique that you would use in Harmony Essentials and Harmony Advanced. So here's how we do it, let's just solo the layers that we want to see and zoom in a bit on them. So they recommend that you have a key frame on the layers that you're going to mask and be masked, so we'll do that. And what we want to do is to select the mask the layer that is to mask, that's the eyeball layer, right click, and go Clone Selected Layers, Drawings, and Timing. Select that, and I want this to be marked as a clone so let's get rid of that underscore one it doesn't tell us much, and go ".c" for clone. And so the next time I see that layer I'll know "oh! That's a clone layer. "What's it a clone layer of? "It's a clone layer of eyerightball." It's just a simple little pneumonic device, the next thing to do is to find the layer that you are going to mask. And that needs a cutter…
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Motion tweening (using keyframes)4m 30s
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Guide layers1m 33s
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Easing in and out3m 20s
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Adding nested drawings5m 39s
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Navigating through the timeline2m 9s
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Shape tweening8m 54s
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Advanced shape tweening12m 26s
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Creating a body comp7m 51s
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Creating a head and mouth comp13m 13s
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Bones IK rig5m 18s
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Fixing layer issues with z-depth6m 28s
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Hand comp6m 53s
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Eye blink7m 14s
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Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Premium9m 13s
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Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Essentials3m 12s
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Completing the IK rig12m 28s
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Copying and pasting frames, exposures, and drawings4m 9s
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Duplicating characters and layers6m 7s
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Symbols4m 12s
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Opening an external library9m 39s
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Effects8m 34s
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Labels2m 21s
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Camera moves7m 38s
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