From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
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Painting highlights, gradients, and shadows - Harmony Tutorial
From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony
Painting highlights, gradients, and shadows
- Now I'm going to show you some techniques for doing a much nicer kind of painting and inking style. And this guy has been drawn with a brush tool so he's got that variable width stroke all over the place. And it's time to get a nicer palette, so let's load one in. So I'm going to click this little flyout here and go Pallets, Import. And then your Exercise Files folder for this project 03_14, and on any project that you save, will have this folder structure and some of them will have these palettes in them, some won't, so you might want to save these somewhere special on your hard drive so that you can always remember them because they're very good to have. We want palette_bright and palette_natural, so click that. Import it and do the same with the other one, Palette, Import, natural. And each of these palettes was arranged with five to 10 swatch tall design so I'm going to try to stretch this thing out here so we can match that. There, that looks really nice. I'm going to use 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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