ANIME - Anime Shading Part I (Harmony)

[@flatfacedcat]

From the perspective of someone who's animated frame by frame (and colored that way too), this all looks so overwhelming. I'm sure it saves time, but... phew!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

its really really easy if you try it!

[@flatfacedcat]

@@ZeBirdBrain I'll definitely be using all your tutorials whenever I save up enough for Toon Boom Harmony! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge, it's always fun watching you work.

[@DimiArt]

i was thinking the same thing, in Clip studio or krita cell shading feels way easier

[@mitchelljao]

Absolutely brilliant :) This is super interesting not just for animation, but even from a design standpoint. If Photoshop had these capabilities maybe we can stay more editable in our art process too. This touches on the powers of node based compositing being able to use a single alpha as a mask for all the colors. Thanks so much for this tutorial!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

I knowwww Thanks !

[@leindotmov]

Amazing tutorial! Your entire channel seems very helpful, thanks!

[@Bblue_light]

This is an easier way to control shadows. Instead of creating a shadow layer, then if I want to change the color of the shadow I delete it and redraw it again. Thank you for sharing this technique 🌟

[@arandompotat0]

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Glad it is !!! :D

[@supersyrups]

omg I'm absolutely going to try implementing this. what an awesome tutorial!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

YEEEE

[@av3ngers17]

what a wonderful and gorgeous tutorial!!! thank you so so much for this! you're my savior

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Thank ytou so much !!!!! and yes, Hades is sooo badass, touch the grass !

[@nikki_kchhun531]

This is so cool. however, I only got the advanced version since I m still new to making animation. It does make me want to get the premium version next time when my annual subscription is over. Thank u so much !

[@ZeBirdBrain]

learn the most you can with Advance! and then get premium to make even more stuff!

[@spollywood6331]

The more videos on helpful shading methods like this, the merrier. This'll come in handy as I try to learn more about this program. I know a lot of roughs for anime showcase the shading blocked out using lines within the lineart (usually red or blue to differentiate between highlight and shadow). Is there a method similar to that which can be done in Harmony at all? Something like using colored vector lines to create separate spaces in your character lineart, and then removing those lines after all the fills are completed. I feel that would be helpful too.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

it was the video I planned for next! and it cam eout last week! ^^ I just didn'T have time to release it in november...

[@ZeBirdBrain]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpilgoePhLJ-isk

[@sabercloclo6025]

Hi ^^ I have a problem. I followed all the tutorial however when I make a stroke on my “shadows” drawing it erases the colors instead of putting my shadows. Would you have a solution ?

[@Gemmalemonade]

Is there anyway to copy the colour override palette node so that if I change which palettes are overridden/shown in one, that it will change as well in the copied version? Sometimes I'm copying my "anime shading" group and I want to change the overriden palettes to something else, and I want all of them to change at the same time. Is this possible? (love your videos!!)

[@AlvaroTalavera]

Wow!!! Super useful !!! Thank you, im going to try it!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Show me if you do !

[@ProductionsDiratia]

Very nice video. Love your Voice effect and intro. I am not an animator but the content is still very interesting.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Thank you very much, mister! :)

[@KidWizardCartoons]

Very cool. Trying this out now.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Cool

[@bichopapai1584]

That's what I wanted for days!! Thanks a lot!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Share it share i t!! So that more people KNOW

[@bichopapai1584]

@@ZeBirdBrain Yes, yes! I will spread the knowledge! :)

[@Zeruk]

ive been using the color changing thing thank u !

[@ZeBirdBrain]

YEAHHH!!

[@drex128]

Hey @ZeBirdBrain love your content! Do have any tutorials on how to do shadows and highlights on an animated puppet?

[@DjoulieZer]

Hi, Thanks for this tutorial, I've been following it several time and it worked perfectly fine, but lately when I want to use the cutter under my colour-override it simply acts like a basic cutter and deletes whatever my shadow layer touches, I don't get why it acts like that and how I can fix it to have my shadows ! If anyone has an answer I would be delighted

[@hey_vishnya]

crying, i have the same problem(((

[@hey_vishnya]

omg i have found a solution, maybe it'll be useful for you too. You just need to link composites!

[@Esterfox1987]

omg i loved this tysm for creating this video that was exactly what i needed! toon boom is really underrated when it comes to tutorials so I'm happy i found your channel! I have a question tho: at 4:13 the character gets blurry (not the shadow but like the character) and it gives out like a bad quality to it. will this happen to my drawings if i use this trick or is it because you didn't delete the blur effect?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

It was blurry because i used a blur effect

[@Esterfox1987]

@@ZeBirdBrain ohh okay, but if i want to blur only the '''shadowing'' then how can i do that?

[@Vobo-Ghure]

Hii I couldn't find many useful videos about character designing, character rigging... could you please make a playlist of videos about designing-rigging-adding master control-animating a short cine... your master control video was good...

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Have fun: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJy7eWSbmrxkftE

[@ramizshould]

So awesome though

[@ZeBirdBrain]

thanks!

[@AdamsAnimationAcademy]

This took the recent shadow tutorial I filmed and turned it up to 11! Ace tutorial :)

[@ZeBirdBrain]

i didn'T know you were doing free tutorials too, pal!

[@AdamsAnimationAcademy]

@@ZeBirdBrain I have JUST started! So I bow down to your skills in the YouTooob world :) It's something I've been keen but SCARED to do for a while! I have a big thank you to send your way for one technique I learnt from you btw.

[@Kridian01]

The more, the merrier! 👍

[@nymthetyrant]

*cries in toon boom essentials* I can’t do any of this T^T

[@ZeBirdBrain]

:c

[@evadivairene828]

Omg this is so helpful- could you explain how you separated your lineart and color art? Do you have different layers entirely or do you use the line and color layers in the same drawing layer?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Check my videoccalled Art Layers or "colour your animation"

[@frisk7755]

I'm trying this like right now, and I'm coming back to share if I did it

[@oliverwatson5725]

Increible tutorial, justo tengo una tarea sobre esto y me ayudo a hacerla super facil

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Feliz!

[@ДаниилБелодурин]

Sorry, but I don't see the shadow in the previous shots with onion skin. Maybe I did something wrong or I need to dig into the settings?

[@nines9036]

What are the node connections you used? Did you do this with in the rig or out of it?

[@YampiLife]

I don't see where the save in color is - override. Where ?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Check the documentation on Colour-Override

[@Jatoline_]

no me resulta, no entiendo con los subtitulos :c

[@Sour_Ink]

Couldn't I just use stroke tool and make a layer that is shadow? I could have it in a peg on the top most part of the layer. If it has its own color, you can just adjust the color and opacity in the color wheel

[@Alir618a]

Hi , I have a question about toon boom itself , when I go in render view , it brings me a solid black page , can you help me solve the problem , tnx 🙏

[@ZeBirdBrain]

might be a bug, reah out to [e-mail]

[@kylierosee]

Hello! I did this and wanted to add a gaussian blur to the shadows. Do you know how I can go about doing that/what nodes to connect the blur to?

[@punleash]

When using the eastern form of shading (minutes ~3:26), do you have to redraw the shadow for every frame or will it stay on for the entirety of the scene?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

It depends

[@fearshad8203]

Thank you 💚💚

[@ZeBirdBrain]

c:

[@Marques2000]

Where is the cutter tutorial :c

[@ZeBirdBrain]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qofGlJKKorpqmMU thank me later

[@tejeraillustrator3810]

Hi Bird, On minute 3:54 you used a search tool in the nodes. How did you do that?

[@TheTrueBloodish]

Have your mouse in the node view (or click in a blank space in the node view if you don't have it set to highlight whatever window your mouse is in). Now just press ENTER. The node search window will pop up and you can type away to find what you need :)

[@tejeraillustrator3810]

@@TheTrueBloodish That was simple, thanks Bloodish!

[@TheTrueBloodish]

@@tejeraillustrator3810 You're welcome :)

[@tejeraillustrator3810]

@@TheTrueBloodish Didnt work btw.

[@TheTrueBloodish]

@@tejeraillustrator3810 oh, that's weird. It needs to be the regular ENTER key btw. The numpad one doesn't do it. Also, what version of harmony are you using? I think this feature wasn't introduced until version 20.

[@heckdeck]

These tutorials are helpful, but only when I put the speed to .75 because the sped up altered audio is very hard to listen to, its not natural

[@ZeBirdBrain]

WELL! Good thing you can put it to 0.75 speed. It's almost as if I planned it that way! :O interesting. wow! (Yes my videos are sped up by 0.25%, for many reasons) And of course it's not natural . . . . i don't normally speak like this. -___- Thanks anyway ;) Glad I can help

[@bichopapai1584]

Do you also have tips for efficiency on coloring the outline of characters? Thank you!

[@ZeBirdBrain]

i'll try to cook something up, in the meantime, look for ''clean up '' vids in my channel!

[@bichopapai1584]

@@ZeBirdBrain Thank you! You're awesome!

[@larryleker6366]

Very informative, but a little fast for my old man brain. I'll have to go through this in slow mo a few times.. I think it might be a little advanced for where I am right now. I'm still figuring out inking and coloring. I should circle back later.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

you can set my videos to 75% speed in youtube! :) It will be the real voice speed!

[@emrysqwl]

Thank you! XD

[@jhoncorp.342]

en que influye la capa FX01?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

I dont remember

[@jayboxstudios7134]

I can't find colour override

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Its a node

[@Aravind_hema]

Thank you keep it up😇 👍

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Welcome 😊

[@coreynik5369]

Great tutorial! So would this technique work with a rigged character all built with separate layers? I am trying to find the best way to do shadows on character rigs or cut out animation but can't seem to find anything related to it.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

it would, kiiinda

[@TRUELIVING]

how can this be translated to a rig ??? would you add this to under the entire composite???

[@ZeBirdBrain]

yup!

[@TRUELIVING]

@@ZeBirdBrain thanks 😊

[@Wonders_of_Reality]

If one would like to have precise control over the colours of the shadow, then it makes sense. Especially for hand-drawn frame by frame animation (provided, the studio has time and money for the extra pass). Otherwise, automatically generated masks and blurs do the trick fine-the colours in the shadows are not so pronounced anyway.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

depends on the style!

[@Wonders_of_Reality]

@@ZeBirdBrain Love your new bird picture!

[@Kaiho1001]

Why my node view did not have color-art in library ?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Because you need to wrtie coloUr art, with a U!! Colour! :) Maybe ?

[@ArtistCreationsPicturesInc]

Is there a way to do the same thing for highlights? I tried the "eastern way" with white color for highlights/lighting, but it disappears. I also try different blending, nothing works to focus on only character.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Yes

[@dll9596]

Amazing video! very helpful. For some reason I have problem exporting in png :/ It just export nothing :( What am I doing wrong? help

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Weird! Ask [e-mail]

[@animassauro6687]

Vary thanks

[@Eldr1tchGl1tch]

I'm a bit confused. How do you make sure it corresponds to the right color?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

what do you mean ?

[@daanimegoatman6683]

Just wondering, would this technique work with lower tier versions of Toon Boom? Say for example, Toon Boom Harmony Advanced. Could all of this be done on that version of Harmony?

[@ZeBirdBrain]

maybe? i don't know!

[@austine6269]

So helpful but its was to fast

[@ZeBirdBrain]

c:

[@housebased7]

Seems like a great tutorial, too bad I will never understand how to use nodes :/

[@ZeBirdBrain]

OF COURSE YOU WILL. bits by bits

[@kambocomics8913]

You lost me in the node connections 😅

[@kambocomics8913]

But now I've figured it out 💪🏾

[@ZeBirdBrain]

niiice

[@funnyMrloony]

Very hard to follow for people who are beginners on toon boom

[@ZeBirdBrain]

It is not a tutorial for people who are beginners on toon boom Please refer to my basic playlists

[@humanman7368]

I'm sorry but this video was not very clear and was hard to follow.

[@ZeBirdBrain]

Oh well

[@shidqieabdurrahman2701]

help, strike color palette your just too fasr