Toon Boom Harmony

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to begin using some of the powerful tools that Toon Boom has to offer with your own traditionally styled animations.

In the days of hand-drawn animation, a group of top Disney animators came together and defined twelve rules of animation that, when applied properly, would create amazing animation and an engaging experience for the audience. In 1981 Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston released a book titled 'The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation', which detailed all 12 principles.

By utilizing the methods and approaches in the course you'll be able to get started with your own lip sync projects with confidence while also having a lot of fun.

Learn to animate quickly and create your videos.

By gaining a good understanding of how particles can be generated, rendered, and affected in Harmony, you'll be able to dive in with creating your own particles.

Throughout the duration of this tutorial we'll create two deformation character rigs.

Learn to use Toon Boom Animate and Toon Boom Harmony to create traditional animated scenes, complex digital character rigs, and even some cool special effects. Author and animator Dermot O' Connor walks through the Toon Boom Animate 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 keyframe-based digital animations.

In this Toon Boom Harmony tutorial, we'll learn about the Light Shading effect.