- Modules
- Introduction to Animation with Harmony Advanced
- About Colour Swatches
About Colour Swatches
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You can use several different types of colour swatches, including solid colour, gradient colour and bitmap texture swatches.
A colour palette is an actual file on the hard drive.
In Toon Boom Harmony, when you add a swatch, it is created using the colour of the currently selected swatch from your palette. However, you can set a default colour to be used every time you create a new colour in your colour palette. This is useful for creating different shades of the same basic colour.
The default colour is also the colour used when you choose to vectorize images you're scanning into your scene, however you add the Default colour swatch to your palette in a different way, so it's unique. It has a unique ID number that makes it easily recognizable from all the other colours in your colour palettes. Being able to change this colour allows you to change the basic colour of all scanned drawings. This can be useful on more than just an aesthetic level as sometimes when you go to NTSC or PAL, pure colours, such as pure black, can create problems.
Time Estimated 5 mins
Difficulty Level Beginner
Topics List
- About Paperless Animation
- Timeline View
- Xsheet View
- About Marking Drawings
- Marking Drawings
- 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