Toon Boom Harmony

Toon Boom logo from 2017

During these holidays I’ve finally dug deep into Toon Boom Harmony.

Firstly, I want to mention that this is not my first approach to this software. I tried it back in 2013-2016, I suppose. And I must confess I didn’t get it at that time, video tutorials were quite complicated and always ended up with ‘use Help and Support to know more’, that was a bit disappointing. So, then trial version expired I didn’t purchase a fool version of the program, and they did not have a subscription back then.

Secondly, since I want to work in animation professionally now, I did research a few months ago about what kind of software is used in studios for in 2D production. And I found that TV Paint, Toon Boom and Animate CC (flash) sort of lifers in the industry.

Since we cover TV Paint and Animate CC in college, I’ve decided to study Toon Boom on my own. I discovered that its possible to subscribe to soft. And I chose a Harmony Advanced version that is a mid version of the program.

Well, I want to say that I like it so far. I think its a mix of Animate CC, then you can make motions between K-frames and Cut-out animation and TV Paint for like they called it Paperless 2D.

I use their official website Learn.Toonboom.com for study.

So, there are some results.

Bouncing square

I used motion animation from K-frame to K-frame for this animation, as we used to do in Anime CC.

Hand movement with Bone
Pegs and hierarchy

This was Bone construction and Parenting/Hierarchy practice.

Frame by frame animation

This is a simple frame by frame practice with squash and stretch techniques.

Overall, I would like to say that the interface I very intelligible and new tutorials are coherent.