New Onion Skin View: Harmony 16 helps you stay focused on the task at hand by neatly consolidating your go-to onion skinning tools and newly added features into one window. Flexible Onion Skin Opacity Levels: Manage your reference drawings with new built-in sliders in the Onion Skin view. The onion skin tool lets you preview the previous and next drawings. There is a few ways you can turn the onion skin on. From the top menu, select View Onion Skin Show Onion Skin. You can also go to the Timeline View, click on the Onion Skin button next to the layer. You can also select the onion skin by going to a toolbar, or by pressing. To access the Onion Skin feature in Storyboard Pro, you can go to the Onion Skin toolbar at the top and click on the Onion Skin button. You can also access the Onion Skin feature by going to the top menu and selecting View Onion Skin Show Onion Skin, or using the keyboard shortcut listed beside. The onion skin tool lets you preview the previous and next drawings. There is a few ways you can turn the onion skin on. From the top menu, select View Onion Skin Show Onion Skin. You can also go to the Timeline View, click on the Onion Skin button next to the layer. You can also select the onion skin by going to a toolbar, or by pressing.
- Onion Skin and Light Table Transparency Dialog Box
T-ANIMPA-006-009
This dialog box lets you adjust the Onion Skin and Light table transparency parameters.
How to access the Onion Skin and Light Table Transparency dialog box
- In the Drawing view toolbar, click on the Top Light button to open the Onion Skin and Light Table Transparency dialog box.
Command | Description |
Onion Skin Opacity | Sets the maximum opacity value for the onion skin opacity display. Moving the slider all the way to the left = 0% opacity. Moving the slider all the way to the right = 100% opacity. |
Lighttable Opacity | Sets the maximum opacity value for the light table display. Moving the slider all the way to the left = 0% opacity. Moving the slider all the way to the right = 100% opacity. |
LightTable Wash | Sets the washed-out value for the light table display. Moving the slider all the way to the left = 0% opacity. Moving the slider all the way to the right = 100% opacity. |
Bitmap Background Wash | Sets the maximum opacity value for the background wash. Moving the slider all the way to the left = 0% opacity. Moving the slider all the way to the right = 100% opacity. Only works for bitmap layers. |
Pencil Lines Opacity | Sets the maximum opacity value for central vector lines (lines made by the Pencil or Shape tools). Moving the slider all the way to the left = 0% opacity. Moving the slider all the way to the right = 100% opacity. |
Quiz
You must be logged in to take the Quiz
Difficulty Level Intermediate
Download Material
Topics List
- Activity 1: Loading a Colour Model from the Library
- About Layers and Columns
- Creating a Rough Animation
- Displaying Drawing Thumbnails in the Timeline View
- About Rippling and Overwriting the Exposure in the Timeline View
- Increasing Exposures
- Decreasing Exposures
- Extending Previous Drawing Exposures
- Dragging Cells
- Enabling the Onion Skin
- Onion Skin and Light Table Transparency Dialog Box
- Flip and Easy Flipping Toolbars
- Activity 2: Drawing Rough Key Poses
- About Marked Drawings
- Marking Drawings
- Renaming Drawings
- Extending Single Exposures
- Filling Empty Cells
- Generating a Matte
- Activity 3: Marking Drawings and Adjusting the Animation Timing
Support
Help and FAQ
Toon Boom Forum
Contact us
Toon Boom Forum
Contact us
T-H16NEW-000-001
When working on a production, efficiency is key and Harmony is all about helping you stay focused. Through a set of new powerful tools, Harmony 16 supports pipeline integration and helps you be more efficient, increase your productivity, and solidify your workflow process.
Lets get started!
Shift and Trace in Camera View
A new Shift and Trace tool is now available in Camera view. Having this tool available right where artists need it helps streamline work and save time when creating frame-by-frame paperless animation. Create a smoother and more natural animation flow by:
- Positioning pegs where you want: on the side, top or bottom
- Removing a drawing from its pegs to offset, scale and rotate for precise positioning
- Shifting multiple drawings at the same time.
New Onion Skin View
Harmony 16 helps you stay focused on the task at hand by neatly consolidating your go-to onion skinning tools and newly added features into one window.
Boost your productivity (or find another way of saying: reduce the headache of having to search for your onion skinning tools) with Harmony 16’s new onion skin view. Your favourite features are now consolidated in one window and come with built-in opacity sliders. You also have the freedom to choose which drawings or frames you see with the Advanced Onion Skin.
Flexible Onion Skin Opacity Levels
Manage your reference drawings with new built-in sliders in the Onion Skin view. Control their individual opacity levels manually or link the sliders together for a quick adjustment.
Advanced Onion Skin
For finer control over your animation and to stay on model, activate Advanced Onion Skin, and then select which drawings you wish to see before and after. You have the freedom to choose which drawings or frames you see, skipping over the ones that aren’t essential.
Effortless Drawing Substitutions
Cut-out rigs can contain many drawing substitutions, enabling animators to quickly swap one drawing for another during the animation phase. With the new Drawing Substitutions view in Harmony 16, all drawings for the selected layer are now conveniently displayed as thumbnails. You can;
- Quickly view all available substitutions and easily make your selection.
- Zoom in/out to view larger or smaller thumbnails.
- Pop out the window and resize it to display more thumbnails.
Animate Onion Skin Range
Expedite the task of manually editing a prop, character or pose over multiple frames with this new tool. Select your element, define the frames via the Onion Skin and make your modifications. It’s as simple as that!
Apply to Onion Skin Range
Onion Skinning And Advanced Onion Skinning | Toon Boom Learn
Swiftly make changes with this new flexible feature. Use the Onion Skin to select your drawing or simply a portion of what you want to change. Apply your changes with the Paint and Select tools which will quickly modify your selection across multiple frames.
Toon Boom Onion Skin Opacity Chart
Tile Option for Backgrounds
You can infinitely tile your background vertically or horizontally to create even longer pans, helping you avoid the need to copy and paste keyframes.
Export to GIF
Instantly transform your scene into an animated GIF with Harmony 16’s new export feature. Don’t forget to share your GIF for a chance to go viral!
Improved Interactivity
Interactive software rendering speeds have been improved. If a prop is modified or an effect is added to a character or a scene, Harmony 16 will merely render the item changed and not the entire scene, significantly cutting down render times. Harmony 16 also has faster rendering speeds for 4K scenes.