Digital Tutors - Utilizing the Morphing Features in Toon Boom Harmony

Duration 2hrs 31m

Level Intermediate

Software used

Toon Boom Harmony

What you will learn

Morphing can be a great asset to your workflow in that it creates in-between drawings which can save you a lot of time with your animations.

We'll begin this course with an overview of morphing and how to create a morphing sequence. For the first few lessons we'll work with simple shapes in which we'll learn concepts like the importance of using the same vector lines and swatches with your key drawings. In addition, we'll learn how we can use the morphing tool to apply various types of hints to control morphed drawings.

Following this we'll work on three different morphing projects. We'll morph key drawings of some fumes and see we can use contour hints to move them organically. We'll also explore how we can apply a morphing sequence to a character design to create a squashing motion.

Finally we'll learn how we can create the illusion of grass swaying in the wind through morphing. Along the way we'll also discuss the importance designing your key drawings for your morphing sequences.

1. Introduction and project overview 01:16

2. An overview of morphing 13:00

3. Applying morphing hints 16:15

4. Adjusting the timing and velocity 09:20

5. Creating a morphing sequence with a transparent hole 05:48

6. Designing key drawings for a morphed fumes sequence 13:48

7. Creating a morphing sequence for our fumes 14:02

8. Morphing a character 14:02

9. Continuing to morph our character 12:27

10. Designing key drawings for blowing grass 11:56

11. Continuing to design our key drawing for our grass 12:55

12. Creating morphing sequences for the key drawings of our grass 14:32

13. Placing our morphed grass into a scene 12:04