Toon Boom Harmony Essential Training

Bring your stories to life with Toon Boom Harmony. Learn to use Harmony for 2D animation and character rigging.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Animate vs. Flash
• Harmony versions
• Animate and video card settings
• Exercise files

1. Interface

• Creating scenes
• Views, toolbars, and workspaces
• Library
• Timeline and Xsheet

2. Drawing

• Camera view and Drawing view
• Interface navigation
• The Pencil tool
• Pencil textures
• The Stroke tool and invisible lines
• The Brush tool
• The Polyline tool and shapes
• Erasing lines and optimizing and cutting
• Transforming objects
• Setting exposures
• Layer exposures

3. Color

• Colors and textures
• Colored-ink lines
• Line art and color layers
• Inking with the Pencil

4. Traditional Animation

• Drawing keys and breakdowns
• Drawing the in-betweens
• Clean up

5. Digital Animation (Motion Graphics)

• A bouncing ball with paths and arcs
• Functions for easing in and out
• Squashing and stretching an object
• Nudging in 3D space
• Symbols and cycles
• Morphing

6. Character Setup and Rigging

• Importing and creating a color palette
• Lining the character
• Child-parent relationships
• Pegs
• Using masks to create an eyeblink
• Sharing functions and adding drawings

7. Animating a Rigged Character

• Animating
• Animating with inverse kinematics
• Morph-tweening the character
• Adding mouth shapes
• Fine-tuning
• Templates

8. Multiplane Camera

• Camera multiplane
• Animating the camera

9. Sound and Dialogue

• Importing audio
• Dialogue

10. Effects

• Adding effects: Essentials
• Adding effects: Premium

11. Exporting Movies and Images

• Exporting movies and image sequences

Conclusion

• Next steps