Please Excuse The Mess

I'm setting up my new art home here. See, every now and then I need to get away and just be me with my art. Sometimes you get caught up making things for friends and family and you stop doing it for the passion and just doing.

Posts to come might include videos of speedpaintings but mostly experiments, things I've learned and learning. In the meantime while I set up, I do apologise if there is loss of functionality at all. I plan to change the css layout of this blog to something personal.

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Toon Boom Harmony Gradient Tool

In Toon Boom Harmony, how do you edit gradients? The second icon on the tool bar if you click and hold, the last tool option is the edit gradient tool. To enable a gradient, you need to first create or edit a swatch and click Gradient to enable it and then choose if you want linear or elliptical. The above video, though fast, shows this. Please do use the option to slow down the video if it's too fast. The edit gradient tool is really great and works best on vector layers. It has resize, rotate and skew and is also very easy to move about. As far as I know, even the gradient can be animated but I have not tried to do so since I don't often use gradients in my animations other than for a colour overlay effect over the entire animation. I, like many others, looked for this tool with the painting options and became quite frustrated. It took some getting used to but once you know where this tool is, it makes editing your work a lot easier. The edit gradient tool also e...

Moho VS Synfig Side By Side Comparison

I thought I would have more to elaborate on but I don't. The painting took 1-2 hours to create and cut up into pieces and both animations took about an hour each because of a lack of skills and knowledge. If I knew the programs better I would have been much faster. Time taken would have been roughly the same.

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