Toon Boom Harmony. 2D Animation, Design, and Rigging

Import the Whip character image into your Toon Boom Harmony document as a bitmap layer from the class materials, then click okay to finalize the import.

Explore the timeline view to manage character layers, play animations, and add layers with the plus button. Learn how drawing layers hold characters and how pick layers assist animation.

Explore brush and pencil drawing in Toon Boom Harmony, editing contours with the contour editor, and using the polyline tool on separate layers for cutout animation.

Create drawing layers for mouth and eyes, refine lines with smoothing and contour editor, draw eye and iris with the ellipse tool, then duplicate and rename for the left eye.

Create the forehead ribbon with the polyline tool, manage layers with light table, draw the arms and legs behind the body, duplicate and flip arms, then apply color.

Create a color palette in Toon Boom Harmony, name body color beige, and paint parts with the paint bucket; close lines with stroke tool and color ears, eyes, and ribbon.

Create peg elements above character layers, then use transform to scale or rotate; Harmony auto generates keyframes as you manipulate, and you can add pegs for all layers.

Place pivots in their correct position by selecting each pack layer and dragging the pivot toward the corresponding piece. Then rotate or scale the parts.

Master the node view in Toon Boom Harmony to organize character rigs with drawing layers, composite and display nodes, and the node library, including how to animate the pack layer.

Link a colored node to the iris layer in harmony, use the white circle as the mask, invert it, and enable show areas to keep the iris within the border.

Add deformers using curve, envelope, and freeform modes, rig the character with the transform tool, and organize hierarchies with pegs and groups to enable independent animation.

Analyze rigging workflows by navigating the node view and hierarchies, using pegs to group face and body parts, and creating keyframes on peg layers to preserve pivots.

Animate in Toon Boom Harmony by previewing with render view, set a color card or imported background, and use F6 and F5 keyframes to build anticipation and movement with deformers.

Master ease in and ease out in Toon Boom Harmony by adjusting curves and keyframe timing to create natural acceleration and deceleration between poses.

Add final touches by inserting poses and intermediate keyframes, rotate legs during jumps, adjust ears, ribbons and body for gravity, then replay and trim the timeline to finish the animation.

Render the animation and export it as a QuickTime movie, select the destination and 24 frames of the timeline, then locate the exported video for sharing on social media.