Toon Boom Harmony Essential Training

Course details

Toon Boom Harmony is used by the best animation studios in the world. To qualify for highly competitive jobs in TV, film, and gaming, students need to master the tools and the complete production process of this powerful animation software. In this course, animator Dermot O' Connor shows how to use Toon Boom Harmony to create hand-drawn and digital animation, complex character rigs, and even some cool special effects. He walks through the Toon Boom Harmony interface, introduces the program's drawing tools and color controls, and teaches techniques for drawing keys, breakdowns, and in-betweens in a traditional animation style, as well as creating motion- and morph-tweened digital animations. Then he shows how to set up, rig, and animate a character, and add finishing touches to your animations, such as moving cameras and sound. Plus, learn to export your work as movies and image sequences.

Learning objectives
Creating scenes
Drawing
Transforming objects
Applying color and ink
Drawing keys, breakdowns, and in-betweens
Easing in and out
Nudging in 3D space
Rigging a character
Animating rigged characters
Morph-tweening characters
Animating cameras
Adding sound and dialogue
Exporting movies and images

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Animate vs. Flash
03 - Harmony versions
04 - Animate and video card settings
05 - Exercise files

1. Interface

06 - Creating scenes
07 - Views, toolbars, and workspaces
08 - Library
09 - Timeline and Xsheet

2. Drawing

10 - Camera view and Drawing view
11 - Interface navigation
12 - The Pencil tool
13 - Pencil textures
14 - The Stroke tool and invisible lines
15 - The Brush tool
16 - The Polyline tool and shapes
17 - Erasing lines and optimizing and cutting
18 - Transforming objects
19 - Setting exposures
20 - Layer exposures

3. Color

21 - Colors and textures
22 - Colored-ink lines
23 - Line art and color layers
24 - Inking with the Pencil

4. Traditional Animation

25 - Drawing keys and breakdowns
26 - Drawing the in-betweens
27 - Clean up

5. Digital Animation (Motion Graphics)

28 - A bouncing ball with paths and arcs
29 - Functions for easing in and out
30 - Squashing and stretching an object
31 - Nudging in 3D space
32 - Symbols and cycles
33 - Morphing

6. Character Setup and Rigging

34 - Importing and creating a color palette
35 - Lining the character
36 - Child-parent relationships
37 - Pegs
38 - Using masks to create an eyeblink
39 - Sharing functions and adding drawings

7. Animating a Rigged Character

40 - Animating
41 - Animating with inverse kinematics
42 - Morph-tweening the character
43 - Adding mouth shapes
44 - Fine-tuning
45 - Templates

8. Multiplane Camera

46 - Camera multiplane
47 - Animating the camera

9. Sound and Dialogue

48 - Importing audio
49 - Dialogue

10. Effects

50 - Adding effects - Essentials
51 - Adding effects - Premium

11. Exporting Movies and Images

52 - Exporting movies and image sequences

Conclusion

53 - Next steps