Paperless Animation Preferences

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To be more efficient when doing paperless animation, you can modify the following preferences.

General Tab

Focus on Mouse Enter

Disabled by default. In Toon Boom Harmony, for the operations or keyboard shortcuts to work in the view in which you are working, the focus must be in that view. When the focus is on a particular view, a red rectangle appears around its frame. You must click in the view or on the view’s header for the focus to be done.

If you enable the Focus on Mouse Enter preference, you will not need to click in the view to get the focus. It will be done as soon as your mouse enters the view.

Advanced Tab

Support Overlay and Underlay Arts

When enabled, options to manipulate overlay and underlay arts are available.

Element Node "Animate Using Animation Tools" Default Value

If you know that you prefer to work in the style of version 7.3 or earlier, or if you intend to substitute many drawings throughout your animation, you might wish to deselect this option. This way, you won't have to do it every time (through the Layer Properties) for each new drawing layer that you create.

Exposure Sheet Tab

Use Current Frame as Drawing Name

Automatically names the drawing corresponding to the frame position. This avoids numbering conflicts while animating.

For example, using the default preferences, you start with the first drawing on frame 1, this drawing is called 1. You then draw the extreme position drawing on frame 10, this drawing is called 2. Next, the in-between pose is drawn on frame 5, this drawing is called 3 and so on.

At the end, you have a sequence like this: 1-9-4-6-3-8-5-7-10-2.

Instead, using the Use Current Frame as Drawing Name option, each drawing is automatically named by its frame number and the sequence looks like: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10.

Extend Exposure of Previous Drawing

When drawing on a blank frame, a new drawing is created and the timing is extended from the previous exposed drawing.