Chapter 41: Cut-out Animation
Harmony provides you with some great tools to animate your puppets. You can create simple animation using the Transform tool and you can create advanced animation using both forward and inverse kinematics. Harmony has advanced onion skinning and image swapping features to help you animate efficiently and quickly. For animation freedom, you have the ability to mix several different techniques of animation, such as simple rigging, hierarchy and symbol animation.
• | Getting the Character |
• | Keyframes and Drawing Blocks |
• | Creating a Simple Cut-out Animation |
• | Selecting Layers to Animate or Position |
• | Navigating the Hierarchy |
• | Animating Using the Transform Tool |
• | Animating Using Inverse Kinematics |
• | Animating in Stop-motion |
• | Animating Using Computer-generated Interpolation |
• | Marking the Timeline |
• | Flipping Through Poses |
• | Using the Onion Skin in Cut-out Animation |
• | Flipping Parts |
• | Reusing Extra Drawings, Poses and Facial Expressions |
• | Swapping Images |
• | Adding a New Drawing |
• | Ordering Layers Over Time |
• | Resetting a Transformation |
• | Creating Cycles |
• | Copying and Pasting Animation |
• | Adding Pegs |
• | Offsetting a Portion of an Animation |