Chapter 36: Cut-out Animation
Harmony provides some great tools for animating puppets. You can create simple animation using the Transform tool, as well as 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 in Stop-motion |
| • | Animating Using Computer-generated Interpolation |
| • | Marking the Timeline |
| • | Flipping Through Poses |
| • | Using the Onion Skin in Cut-out Animation |
| • | Flipping Parts |
| • | Swapping Drawings |
| • | Animating Lip-Sync |
| • | Adding a New Drawing |
| • | Ordering Layers Over Time |
| • | Resetting a Transformation |
| • | Creating Cycles |
| • | Copying and Pasting Animation |
| • | Adding Pegs |