Anim203_2018

Week 15
Monday: Final Day to review Final Project.
Wednesday: Final Presentation of Final Lip Sync Project 
( :15 or :30 seconds)

Week 14
Pose to Pose animation test with Lip Sync Sound
Start Inbetweening: Remember Ease Ins and Ease Outs, Squash/Stretch, etc. FINAL WEEK to Revise Past Projects.
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Week 13

V CTNX Weekend

Week 12
Storyboard or create an Animatic with temp sound to show your idea for your Final Project, including Lip sync, sound effects, copyright free music and presence track(s).

Strong suggested to create a puppet rig to animate with to keep character on model and ease with animating process.

ToonBoom has just posted the Learning Portal with plenty of tutorials to help you with animating in Harmony. Check out: Rigging 1 with Harmony Premium. 

Be sure to stop by the ToonBoom booth at CTNX to learn more...

Week 10
Here is a link to a series of tutorials on Rigging in Harmony from Tracy Strong of Stylus Rumble
https://youtu.be/U3Kt6FJ8x_Y



Week 9
Lip Sync Assignment 01: Two Words  "Oh Boy"
Establish a scene and a character in that scene. Set up a situation already in progress. Your character must act or react by lip syncing "Oh Boy". 

• Choose a wav file of "Oh Boy" 
• Add sound file to Harmony scene
• Read sound and add correct mouth positions
• Animate your character gesturing, acting, etc.
• Show animation not a still photo with lip sync.

OR

You can add "Oh Boy" to your Take a Drink project, before your character takes a drink or after they take a drink.

Helpful
Lip Sync Links
https://animateducated.blogspot.com/2014/04/lip-sync-animation.html

https://animateducated.blogspot.com/2016/10/lip-sync-animation-2.html

https://animateducated.blogspot.com/2018/05/sound-recording.html

Week 6

Review: P05 Personality Walk, revise, re-render

Lecture: Animating Acting: Scenes

IN CLASS: REFERENCE FOOTAGE

Assignment: P06; rough storyboard

Review: P06 Take a Drink and Resolution Storyboard

Assignment: Pose Test of Key Poses

Week 5
Character Rig ready to Animate

• Storing Master file into Harmony Premium Library.

Lecture: Animating a 2D Cut out Character
Assignment: Test out your Rig

Review Rig Tests
Lecture:Animating a Character Walk.
Using Reference Footage.
Assignment: P05 Personality Walk In (Sc01)

Week 4
Setting up your Cut-Out character.

•  Head pivots with facial features
• Set up Bone Deformers for arms and legs, (inside body optional)
• Drawing Substitutions
• Master Peg Setup for Animation and Storage.

Week 3

To rig a Character in Harmony, you'll need a 3/4 pose.
Click this link to learn how to set up your character rig.

Anim203_F1 and _F2
For Monday: Have all the Body parts cleaned up and in color
on separate layers. 

Label each layer,

Adjust Pivot points for Head and add face parts,

Adjust Pivot Points for Arms and Legs.

We will be going over Bone and Curve Deformers and you
will Rig the Arms and Legs of your character  in class, so 
please have everything setup before hand.

Anim203_F3
Same as Above, DO NOT PEG LAYERS or Delete PEGS.
I will show you how to fix this in class.

Here's a good example of a Character Take (reaction)

 
This explains how to set up a simple arm with hand.
 Part 2: Arm B

Here is a tutorial about rigging arms and nudging a layer.

3 Production Workflows

Drawing with the Brush or Pencil Tool

The Brush and Pencil tools are used for drawing and sketching. Both tools support pressure sensitivity, allowing you to create lines with variable thickness. The Brush tool produces contour vector lines. The Pencil and shape tools produce central vector lines. This means that a pencil line’s control points (used to deform its shape) are located along the length of the central spine, while the Brush line’s control points are located along the contour.

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If you draw with the Brush tool and want to modify the thickness variation, use the Contour Editor tool.

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If you draw with the Pencil tool and want to modify the thickness variation, use the Pencil Editor tool.

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You can also convert a brush zone into a pencil line with the Brush Stroke to Pencil Line option.

If you sketch a drawing using a semitransparent colour to get a paper-like feel, you should use the Brush tool as it produces a more realistic and natural feel. The pencil line is very useful for tracing clean or final drawings.

Also, it is recommended to use brush lines when designing cut-out puppet articulations which use patches.

Cutter Tool Options

When you select the Cutter tool, its properties and options appear in the Tool Properties view.

 

Check out: Stylus Rumble
Motion Path in Harmony

How to draw 2 point perspective in Harmony

Harmony 15: Keyboard Short Cuts

Shortcut                         Windows              Mac

Add Frame 

after selection                Ctrl + H                    Command + H

Add Frame 

before selection             Ctrl + G                    Command + G

Copy                              Ctrl + C                     Command + C

Cut                                 Ctrl + X                     Command + X

Paste                              Ctrl + V                    Command + V

Delete                             DEL                          Backspace

Delete All                                           Esc

Duplicate Drawing                      Alt + Shift + D

Free Pan & Zoom                           Spacebar

Increase Exposure (Frames)                +

Decrease Exposure                              -

Last Frame                                            >

Next Frame                                            . Period

Previous Frame                                     , Comma         

Preferences                     Ctrl + U                   Command + U  

Save                                Ctrl + S                   Command + S

           

Cut Out Animation

This is what the audience sees...

Rapunzel fananimation from maginpanic on Vimeo.

Rapunzel in ToonBoom Harmony First Test from Felipe Almeida on Vimeo.

Cut Out Animation Rig setup

This is what the Animator uses to animate the character rig.

TIP: If you add a peg to your drawing and it gives you a
Display All request instead, do the following.

Go to Scene tab/ Default Display and click Display All.

Now Peg will be seen and will be attached to your drawing. 


Ignore this Tip for now
TIP: Shift+F11 should work if you have the right peg selected
 and your cursor is in the camera view. If that doesn't work
 you can go to view > show > control That will also show if 
the hotkey is set up properly. If you have the peg pivot offset 
the spline thingy will be offset as well - so that may be why 
you're having issues. Make sure you're starting with a fresh
 peg that isn't chained to anything and you shouldn't have
 any issues. If it purists, it could be a software problem.