Toon boom harmony 16 overlay layer how to#

Some of the graphical tricks that were done back then were fairly crude. We have our little line shaking out his head to show he's afraid. And as you can see, we have our little dotted line pointing to the skeleton. And let me get rid of the thumbnail there, okay it's out. I tried to make it like a little less symbolly by doing smaller actions inside the head, but it works. That would definitely get me a much higher degree of realism because sometimes when you use a puppet system it's too perfect. I prefer to animate in Photoshop using the timeline feature and do it by hand, draw it old school. Now I decided to keep this as a puppet I could have definitely done this by hand. There's a few little noodley parts here where I had to make little key frames that I preferred not to. One two, one two, one two, that creates that little stagger shake. Now I'll switch off all the reference layers if I can. Let's just look at the puppet layer here. So that was my reference pose for the puppet, which I then positioned. So the first thing I did was to create the thumbnails in here as reference for the puppet, and I'll take the collar off so they can play it through That's it. You're seeing here this little outline drawing.

Let's go back out to the main scene, hide these, and I'll show you the final scene here, tunnel into that. So he turns into his B pose from here to here. And then these can be of course, as you know rotated to create the key frames. So you can see the different body parts, all done in vector drawing.

And then I built a symbol on top of this and it's all on layers. But the process that I used here was to, did a drawing first in Photoshop, nothing special.

Toon boom harmony 16 overlay layer how to#

Once again, this isn't like an encyclopedic how to, there are more courses in the library showing you how to animate in Flash or Toon Boom Harmony if you prefer. So let's take a look at how this was done in Flash. That's our puppet being pushed into this pose, standing pose, reaction, and shake. And I'm going to show you again, how I will go into that program and give you an overview of that too. And I did this in Animate CC, the program formerly known as Flash. So to share the final puppet drawings that I used. And then that's our reaction, which will shake. So that you can see we're going from one to nine in red and then into our standing position, very easy, and hold that for 10. So I'll overlay the drawing so that you can or the key frames. Everything that you see here in red would be an anachronism. What we won't do is what we would do in animation today, which would to go into an anticipation, and do a little down pose, a little turn, an overshoot, none of that will happen. And when we get to the 35, we will have two different drawings here and then just cycle between them 35, 36, 35, 36, to give us that shake effect. And then the rest is in two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and so on. And this is the first drawing that we would do to go between them in this one here and here. And then we go from that into our little reaction, and there's nothing fancy here, all of the in-betweens are railroad tracks from here to here and here to there.

So we start in a standing pose, we do a step into a second standing pose and we hold that for 10 frames. So I wanted to use as few keys as possible. So this was my thumbnail and I wanted to keep it simple, if you've watched the previous movies, you know animation from this period was fairly straightforward. And this isn't going to be a complete nuts and bolts but it's an overview to give you the gist of it. So this is the scene that I want to show you how I animated.