Morphing is a fun little tool for all kinds of effects. My favorite place is water rings, but with a bit of creativity you can sneak it in all over the place.
Deformers are a good sneaky way to animate curved items quickly - but did you know you can bake the frames into drawings?
Hopefully these sneaky toonboom tricks will help you with your own special effects, or rubber hose arms, or who knows!?
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