Toon Boom Harmony 20 Essentials Overview

Learning the essentials of the industry standard 2D animation software Toon Boom Harmony

What you'll learn
2D animation using Harmony
Understanding and handeling the tools and workflow in Harmony
Requirements
You need a copy of Toon Boom Harmony Essentials (download the trial version). Blender and Cartoon Animator Pipeline are optional
Description
Harmony is professional software for creating 2D animations for films. But you can also create regular video's with it and publish them wherever you like. For those who have no big budget, but want to learn the basics of Harmony, there is Harmony Essentials. This program is a lot cheaper than the Advanced or the Pro version, but it lets you do lots of cool stuff. Especially in conjunction with some other free or inexpensive software.So this course will not only cover Harmony, but some other programs as well. All to give you more freedom of choice.If you are a good at drawing, why would you not enhance your skills and breathe life into your artwork? Animations are far more vivid than stills!This course will help you getting started with Harmony Essentials. It will explain the tools. It will also explain animation and adding effects to your drawings. Those effects can be animated as well.Bonus: I will learn you a trick how to get 4K video out of Harmony Essentials with the use of external software.Bonus: I will learn you a trick how to create 3D animations out of 2D animations (create 3D models from 2D image sequences) with the use of free softwareBonus: An update to the existing Harmony Game SDK asset, found on the Unity Asset store. With a short video on how to use it. The default Harmony SDK Asset is obsolete. This file will let you use some of the original functionality (not everything).Bonus: I will discuss several apps available on Android and iOS tablets, that can be used in conjunction with Harmony Essentials or Advanced, for desk free drawing!

Overview

Section 1: Harmony Essentials

Lecture 1 Opening Harmony

Lecture 2 Creating your first quick and dirty animation

Lecture 3 Part one about Layers in Harmony

Lecture 4 Part two about Layers in Harmony

Lecture 5 The Select tool part 1

Lecture 6 The Alignment Guides

Lecture 7 The Select tool part 2

Lecture 8 The Select tool part 3

Lecture 9 Contour Editor tool

Lecture 10 Centerline Editor tool

Lecture 11 Smooth Editor tool

Lecture 12 Perspective tool

Lecture 13 Envelope tool

Lecture 14 Palettes and applying tint to the palette

Lecture 15 Vector and Raster images

Lecture 16 Brush tool and Repaint Brush tool

Lecture 17 Pencil tool

Lecture 18 Stamp tool and create custom stamps

Lecture 19 Eraser tool

Lecture 20 Text tool

Lecture 21 Bit more about Rectable, Elypse, Line and Polyline tools

Lecture 22 Paint, Paint Unpainted, Unpaint tools

Lecture 23 Stroke and Close Gap tools

Lecture 24 Colour Eyedropper tool

Lecture 25 Onion skinning menu, Maintain Size

Lecture 26 Bones and the Deformation Menu

Lecture 27 Playing with Effects part 1

Lecture 28 Playing with effects part 2

Lecture 29 Creating a more complex rig

Lecture 30 Bonus: export to 4K with Essentials and another program

Lecture 31 Bonus: make 3D form 2D drawings

Lecture 32 Bonus: using a node to fix multicolor drawings.

Lecture 33 Bonus: updated Harmony Game SDK working with Unity 2020

Lecture 34 Bonus: best apps for tablets in combination with Harmony

Lecture 35 Bonus: part 2 best apps for tablets in combination with Harmony

Students that want to start using Harmony Essentials