You can even add Colour-Art and Line-Art nodes to a drawing layer (as long as you have your art properly separated on those sublayers) and a Write node for each, so that you export line and colour separately. But with this method you have a lot of flexibility to export layers to AE. pdf are only available formats for importing to library.īut note that Harmony is conceived mostly as an end point software if not in terms of final compositing at least in final animation, so the exporting is not exactly aimed at preparing assets to be animated externally. In the Render Video dialog box, enter a name for the video or image sequence. swf is the only vector format it supports for exporting, and. But I understand that Harmony is meant to be used for animation only, so it makes sense that. Secondly, I want to quit using Adobe Illustrator for character design, and in order to do that I need to be able to export as vector/scalable format, specially if I’m doing a mascot/branding for a client (they all want it scalable to print in any size they need). For instance, if you want to export Body plus Left Arm and Right Arm you would add a Write module under each one of the three layers making sure to assign them different names on the Drawing Filename field (for instance, body, arm_l and arm_r I would add a dash for image sequences so that you’d get body-1, body-2, body-3, etc.)Īctually I need to export as vector because it is scalable, meaning I can do an animation that is 640 x 480 px and scale it up to any size, even beyond 8K. Since you’re trying to export PSD files I assume you don’t need to actually work with vector files in AE? You can add Write modules to each layer you want to export separately and choose (on the Write module properties) the format PSD4 so that you have transparency. “I have to print a 2m high banner, and there is no way I can export in any of the Bitmap formats an image with such size, once it takes a lot of memory and the software crashes.” - quoting jonas.brandao - Posted 5 years ago, on 2012. And when I write “design” I mean, for example: But recently I worked as line artist/final liner of keyframes on an animated series and I want to continue doing that, so now I’m interested on doing both design and animation with Harmony 15. I’m a freelance character illustrator, so Adobe Illustrator always seemed to be the best choice for my sphere of activities. It probably does.Īgain, I’m using Harmony to design a cast of unique cartoon characters, different facial expressions that will play in the character’s personality, etc. So instead of PSD4 I tried PNGDP4, and it worked! Now I need to send these files to the After Effects animator and check if it works for him. Following your instructions I was able to export to Photoshop, but not to After Effects. (…) You can even add Colour-Art and Line-Art nodes to a drawing layer (as long as you have your art properly separated on those sublayers) and a Write node for each, so that you export line and colour separately. When you make Render Write Nodes the software renders a layer for each Write module on your Node View (as I mentioned, make sure export file names are different, otherwise one export will overwrite the other). But I just couldn't find any official info that describes how to work directly with Vector art and whether that is possible or not.You can add as many Write modules as the layers (or grouped layers or layers connected to a composite…) as you want. It says here that Affinity Designer and Photo is supported. Every time a save is done in the image editing software, it updates the artwork inside CA4 Pipeline too. Then be able to connect and edit any layer by launching the image editing software inside CA4 Pipeline. Basically, what it does is enable importing of a PSD file that can be a layered full character or prop. Hello there! It's actually a feature of CA4 Pipeline edition that can directly link it to supported external image editing software for easier updating of a PSD file. If that is the case then I doubt Affinity Photo would work as there is no scripting available for it. What is the Pipeline you have bolded? A quick look at the website for Cartoon Animator 4 makes me think it is a feature for that software that uses Photoshop, not just its files, in some fashion. In Character Animator, File - > Export there is a choice of Video with Alpha via Media Encoder.
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