Add background to Toon Boom harmony and move the camera
Today we will learn how to add a background in Toon Boom Harmony program, with moving the camera, that is, "Zoom In and Zoom Out" with a small drawing, because many asked me how to add a picture or a pre-drawing to the program several times, and I decided to explain in detail and with pictures , let's go.
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The first stage
Add backgrounds:
We open Toon Boom Harmony and from here we go to the top menu, which contains a number of options. On the left side you will find the "Fifth Option" image format, and I have selected it in red, click on it, and a menu appears for you.
Once the menu appears, click on the word "browse" and there you will go to the place where you usually keep all your drawings, and choose the file you want.
And after finishing, click on the word "ok"
Here you can consider that you can add as many backgrounds and graphics as you want with the same step in the next times
The next stage
The stage of moving the camera "scene" :
First, make sure that the animation is not activated, then we click on the background that we have added, and by using the tool shown on the image, we go immediately to the right-hand menu that contains the "top" option, and there we pull the image back, with the tool that I told you about previously.
You can dispense with this step, but it makes the shot more like a 3D scene, where the background is farther from the camera and the character is closer to the camera.
We select the "transform tool" and enlarge the image while pressing "shift" on the keyboard. "If you try to enlarge the image without pressing the" shift "button, the image will be enlarged unevenly, and it may lose its true dimensions.
In the "time line", we go to the left side and press the "+" symbol, and options appear for us, from which we can choose the camera.
We click on the camera and add the "peg" to it, which is responsible for moving the camera later
Then now we turn on the animation
We draw an anime girl, or a character you want for the scene
After that we add the movement keys or what is known as a "key frame" and through it we start moving the camera, once up, then down, etc.
And now the scene is over, you can sense that the background is really present at the back, and that the drawing is not only two-dimensional, but there is a space between the girl and the picture.
I hope I answered what a lot of people have been saying about adding backgrounds to Toon Boom Harmony, and there are a lot of lessons coming on about the program, and until then, you are all right.
