When you draw on a bitmap layer, each stroke is composited into the canvas, so it remains a single drawing that can only be painted or erased upon, but which does not allow you to tweak individual parts of it.īitmap artwork can only be scaled up or zoomed in on as much as their pixel density allows without losing picture quality. Bitmap drawing tools allow you to lay on brush strokes onto a single flat canvas, and to tweak your artwork by the pixel if needed.

Bitmap Layers: Bitmap drawings are composed of a grid of pixels, which are small points that each have a single solid colour.

Additionally, because drawing strokes are made of points and curves, it is possible to edit their shape, making it easy to make corrections and changes to your artwork. You can select single drawing strokes, then move them around and transform them, even if drawing strokes were applied over them.

When drawing on a vector layer, each drawing stroke and pencil line is a separate object which can be manipulated individually. Hence, the artwork in vector layers can be scaled up and zoomed in without losing quality, unless they contain a texture. Vector Layers: Vector drawings are made of points and curves that compose the contours of the shapes of the artwork, along with the colour or textures these shapes are filled with.Harmony supports two types of drawing layers, each with their own advantages and limitations: When your scene has several layers, layers higher in the list appear over lower layers. A scene can have as many layers as needed. Layers can be selected and managed in the Timeline view.

When you create a new scene, your scene will have a default layer named Drawing, in which you can immediately start drawing. Just like with traditional animation, Harmony uses layers to keep elements such as characters, backgrounds and props separate from each other, allowing you to animate them independently.

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