Affinity Designer Tutorial - masking with compounds and symbols

In this video, I dive a little deeper into using compound groups as masks in Affinity Designer. When I did the overview video of the different masks, I wasn't happy with the solution for the Mask to Below. I decided to add Symbols to the mask to control the mask from the outside... and it worked.
This video covers the creation and a few different examples of what you can easily achieve by adding Symbols to your mask creation process. I had a lot of fun with it!
More examples of masks, clips, and crops can be found in my PDF collection of step-by-step tutorials.
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[@labsquadmedia176]

This is the "out of the box" thinking that I'm interested in exploring with Designer. Thanks for sharing this discovery.

[@2dgameartguru]

You are welcome... this was just too much fun not to share ;)

[@TheOnlyDino]

Thanks Chris! Another excellent video!

[@2dgameartguru]

Glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun with this one... :)

[@calamalabar]

genius-level !

[@2dgameartguru]

Thanks... I was surprised it worked and even more amazed how far you can take it ;)

[@gurumonkey]

I understand what you're doing except for the symbol part. I don't understand how to make something a symbol or how to use in multiples. Can you explain that?

[@2dgameartguru]

Check out the videos on symbols I recorded a while back:
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and this one
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and this is fun to play with
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while this explains a bit what you can do with the synchronization of symbols
th-cam.com/video/qjkNB1DR35E/w-d-xo.html

[@dougveganparadisebuilder5808]

Hello Guru! Could this be done in Inkscape? I started out with Inkscape and am learning every day, considering myself still a novice. So I am hesitant to learn another vector program at the same time. What is your advice? Because I think this masking technique could be very useful for me.

[@Espermaschine]

You can mask and clip with clones just the same. If you have more than one, you have to put them in a group.
With masking you must follow the white reveals and black conceals principle.

[@2dgameartguru]

I just made the video for Inkscape ;)