My method is to space out the drawings like I do in the video, then start different parts of the cycle on a different frame. So instead of always starting a part on 1, I'll start the next one on 8, then 3, then 5. Once I feel it's starting to get where I want, I'll take a little break, stretch, drink some water, then sit back and watch it on loop, looking for parts I don't like, and I can fill those in, or pull things back. Over time you learn to trust the process, and your eyes get better at seeing this kind of thing while it's in progress. But in general, standing back a bit helps. It's really easy to get hypnotized by tiny details in fx.

@@StylusRumble thanks for the tips, appreciate you taking the time. Gunna give this another attempt today.

If your bubbles or guides are going up, it might be that you're not cleaning up consistently around the same ones? It's hard to say without seeing what you end up with.

@@StylusRumble yes i am cleaning around the same one but once I noticed it I stopped because it is same on all frames but there is an animation though (kind of rough), but there is GOOD NEWS though since it was same on all frames I just made the first frame then I disabled the bubbles layer and drew it manually following the shape like triangle or something else

@@StylusRumble also it would have been much better if I were able to use your method it's much easier and flexible to work with

Unfortunately, there's no trick to it you cut the drawing up and modify the pieces.

if your master controller's busted, that sounds like a tech support issue. Maybe there's a setting or something that you turned off, that I'm not familiar with. I currently don't have a harmony license to dig through the program, but toonboom twitter is pretty great at responding to questions quickly. Or www.youtube.com/@ZeBirdBrain really knows her stuff.

was able to fix the issue by putting it in a new scene and connecting it to a passthrough composite

The newest versions of harmony actually come with it built in! you can search for it in the scripts.

In that case, I will render out a PNG sequence and re-import it into harmony. Sometimes it has to be rendered out a little wider to avoid distortion on the sides, but it gets the job done in one software.

@@StylusRumble Exactly, this makes sense, especially if the scene is already set up with camera movements. In my case, however, the animated sequence lived on its own and went then into a 3D editor anyway. Therefore, AE is a simple in-between stop. You say that Harmony glitches and changes proportions with exporting and reimporting? Never noticed that.

@@Wonders_of_Reality It's not the program changing the proportions- But if the PNG sequence is exactly the same size as the frame, when distortion happens close to the frame it might show where the image gets cut off. By pulling out a field or two with the camera, it gives the PNG sequence a safe area to distort near the frame

@@StylusRumble Interesting! Good to know. In other words, one should be careful with the distortion effects close to the margins of the frame. Well, if nothing else helps, one can always render the scene in higher resolution and then tinker with the effects in other editors (or in Harmony for that matter).

Thanks!