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Pivot, scale, skew, and distort

Pivot, scale, skew, and distort - Harmony Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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Pivot, scale, skew, and distort

- Now let's take a look at some drawing tools how we can take an existing piece of artwork and skew it, scale it, distort it, you know make the usual changes. First thing to bear in mind is that any Flash person that comes here will probably see this little thing and then go, "I want to start using this "because it looks so familiar." The problem is these are animation tools. If you're in the phase of creating artwork and adjusting artwork, you really can't use them for this purpose at the moment. So what we want to do is use the Select tool and then I'll show you how we can select different objects. So one method is to draw a line around an object. But again, sensitivity on this is different than in Flash. So if I want to select across all layers, hold down the ctrl or cmd key, then draw across them or click on them and that will select the object. So let's do that again for the eyebrow. And we can move it. Let's move it back, ctrl + z. I can rotate it, can scale it, skew it. Now…

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