- Modules
- Introduction to Animation with Harmony Essentials
- Creating Cycles
Creating Cycles
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Once you have entered a series of drawings and exposures, you can create cycles out of them in several ways. This can be useful for example if you want to make or use a looping character's walking animation, referred to as a walk cycle.
When you create cycle, each instance of each cycled drawing is linked to the same drawing file. This means that if you change a drawing for the first instance of the cycle, it will update for every other instance of the cycle.
How to create a cycle
- In the Timeline toolbar, click the Create Cycle
button (you may have to customize the toolbar to display it).
The Create Cycle dialog box opens.
- Enter the number of cycles you want, including the current selection.
Time Estimated 10 mins
Difficulty Level Beginner
Topics List
- About Paperless Animation
- Timeline View
- Xsheet View
- Extending the Exposure of Previous Drawings
- Using the Onion Skin
- Typing Exposure
- Creating Cycles
- Setting the Exposure
- Cleaning Animation
- Using the Light Table
- Activity 1: Rough Animation
- About Duplicate Layers
- Duplicating Layers
- About Colour Palettes
- About Colour Swatches
- Adding a Colour Swatch
- Adding a Gradient Colour Swatch
- Adding a Texture Colour Swatch
- Painting Multiple Drawings
- Activity 2: Changing the Colour of the Animation
- Activity 3: Adding a Colour Card and Exporting