Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs

You Can Learn to Build and Animate Simple Turnaround Rigs in Harmony Essentials

4.00 (104 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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3D & Animation

What you will 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

Why take this course?

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!!!

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Reviews

Fabian

June 7, 2023

This is a good little intro to harmony and its rigging capabilities, but for each section, there's a big chunk of work done in between and it makes it frustrating to have to catch up before moving on. I also would like explanations on what the purpose of each lesson does towards the final goal (e.g. why do we need to mask the eye to begin with?)

Matt

June 6, 2022

As a beginner, this course definitely gets you on your way. Great information about bones, pegs and animation basics that many will need out of the gate for their projects.

Gordon

April 21, 2022

Thank you so much!!! This course helped me as a beginner learn toon boom in a matter of days! The lesson was excellently taught and easy to follow and didn't bore me to sleep. This is an incredible course, and I would definitely recommend

Maria

August 25, 2020

Yay! I just finished the course and my character was able to successfully walk in place and walk across! I'm so happy! Tony is an excellent teacher! I've always wanted to know how to make a puppet rig in Toon Boom Harmony, and this course is one of the few I was able to find that teaches it! I got so excited when I was able to rig my character and make it move. It was thrilling to keep learning! I do recommend this if you have a bit of knowledge with Toon Boom Harmony, because sometimes in the next lessons, there's some changes in the layers, etc. without being told that it was changed or moved, so you have to figure it out yourself. Besides that, excellent course! :) I hope Tony makes more animation courses that has to do with rigging. :)

Saumya

June 1, 2020

The course tells a lot from the basics and does help a newbie to not only move around in Harmony but also to start a basic walk cycle.

Damien

March 2, 2020

These tutorials was done really well compared to others i have seen. He does not rush through the courses and he explains things well. I have learned alot from these tutorials and i hope to see more of an update tutorial in future.

Sami

April 15, 2019

I followed the lectures carefully for months but I couldn't accommodate the second half of the lectures.

Steven

April 3, 2019

The course are really clear, I was a cut out Artist on Atomic Betty during 2004. I have done other jobs with animate CC. I have to switch on Toon Boom Harmony for a new contract. This course gave me the help I need to learn the interface quickly to do my contract.

Michael

March 8, 2019

BIs dato nur Sprache, ohne Bild und Animationen. Das geht auf jeden Fall interessanter, insofern man den Sprecher sehen könnte.

Fiona

February 3, 2019

I'm only in section 2 so far, but I am finding this a very helpful resource to learn Toon Boom as an absolute beginner. I really appreciate how he breaks everything down. I'll update when I finish the course but for now..! :)

shavonne

January 1, 2019

Fantastic! I've learned more using this tutorial in 2 weeks than I have learned on the Toon Boom Harmony site! I feel confident that i will be able to animate on my own after this. Great Job!!