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Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs
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Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs

You Can Learn to Build and Animate Simple Turnaround Rigs in Harmony Essentials
Created byTony Ross
Last updated 11/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • By the end of this course, you'll learn how you can rig and animate your own characters using Toon Boom's entry level software, Harmony Essentials

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Course content

13 sections • 60 lectures • 5h 6m total length

  • About this Course4:17
  • Harmony Essentials vs Harmony Premium4:17
  • Harmony Essentials vs Adobe Animate (Flash)5:43
  • Using the Support FIles1:21

    The support files for the course are located here to download.

  • Setting Preferences2:35
  • Workspace Overview5:39
  • Working with the Brush Tool8:15
  • Working with the Pencil Tool4:21
  • Using the Contour Tool and Centerline Tool3:26
  • Using the Camera View7:39

Requirements

  • For this course, you should have some basic knowledge of computer graphics programs.
  • You'll need the software Harmony Essentials (demo is available, this course covers versions 12-16)
  • Though this course is designed for Harmony Essentials, these steps also work with Harmony Advanced & Premium

Description

Have you ever wondered could you create a turnaround rig in Harmony Essentials? In this new course, I'll show you step-by-step how to rig a simple, yet powerful cut-out character just using Harmony Essentials.

Now a full production character rig typically requires the node view and deformers that are only available in Harmony Premium – That being said, even at the entry level of Toon Boom software, out of the box, Harmony Essentials has a stronger set of animation features than programs like Animate or Flash!

Here are a few of the topics covered in the course:

TOC Welcome/Intro & Basics

  • About this Course

  • Harmony Essentials vs Harmony Premium

  • Harmony Essentials vs Flash/Animate

  • Setting your Preferences

  • Using the Brush Tool

  • Using the Pencil Tool

  • Working in Drawing Mode

  • Working in Camera Mode


Designing the Character

  • Designing Cut-Outs for Harmony Essentials

  • Sketching the Character

  • Cleanup and Inking the Character

  • Setting up Views of the Character

  • Setting up Layers

  • Working with Drawing Substitutions


Working with Pegs

  • Should You Animate Pegs or Drawings?

  • Setting Drawing Pivots

  • Setting Peg Pivots


Using Bone Deformers

  • Bone Deformer Basics

  • Rigging the Torso

  • Rigging the Arms

  • Rigging the Legs

  • Rigging the Hair


Using Symbols & Patches

  • Advanced Arm Rigging

  • Advanced Leg Rigging

  • Advanced Hair Rigging

  • Advanced Rigging the Eyes

  • Rough Sketch of Drawing Substitutions

  • Advanced Rigging the Eyes

  • Setting up Layers

  • Working with Masking & Cutters


Adding the Mouth

  • Rough Sketch of Drawing Substitutions

  • Advanced Rigging the Mouth

  • Setting up Layers

  • Working with Masking & Cutters


Setting up a Template

  • Re-Naming Drawing Substitutions

  • Using Kinematic Output

  • Working with Child-Parent hierarchy

  • Working with Layers and Nudging

  • Creating Master Pegs

  • Working with Libraries

  • Creating Templates


Animating your Character

  • Creating a 3/4 Walk Cycle

  • Creating Blinks

  • Creating Action Templates

  • and Much, much more!!!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginners looking to learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials
  • If you are transitioning from Flash to Harmony, this course is a good intro

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