ANIME - Anime Shading Part I (Harmony)

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[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!

[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 🌟

[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!

[leindotmov]

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

[supersyrups]

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

[arandompotat]

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[sabercloclo]

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 ?

[avngers]

what a wonderful and gorgeous tutorial!!! thank you so so much for this! you're my savior <3 and wow that Hades clip took me out. damn I need to touch some grass now

[mykeldey]

where is your cutter tutorial, i did not find

[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!!)

[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

[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?

[AdamsAnimationAcademy]

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

[drex]

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

[AlvaroTalavera]

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

[Jatoline_]

no me resulta, no entiendo con los subtitulos :c

[spollywood]

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.

[ProductionsDiratia]

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

[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?

[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