From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Optimize shapes - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Optimize shapes
- I've covered this previously, but I think it's a good idea to have this particular process out here by itself in the movie in case you ever forget and wonder, "Where did he mention that trick before?" And it's how to optimize a line. So when I drew this brush, you can see it's done it all with different strokes, so let's flatten it, and of course you can set it to do that automatically if you go to the Tools Properties panel. Let's just open that up a little bit. Take that arrow and we can set this icon here to auto-flatten. Occasionally it'll misfire and won't work for me. In that case you'll have this, and in which case you just simply select it, go into the Tools options and then flatten it manually, and you'll see it. It's now one nice object. So let's go in a little tighter. And a few ways to optimize this. Let's select this, and actually we'll go to Contour Editor instead. We'll use the Smooth Editor, and then we have the color, which we can, this it the color of the brush…
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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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