Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome/Intro & Basics

Lecture 1: About this Course

Lecture 2: Harmony Essentials vs Harmony Premium

Lecture 3: Harmony Essentials vs Adobe Animate (Flash)

Lecture 4: Using the Support FIles

Lecture 5: Setting Preferences

Lecture 6: Workspace Overview

Lecture 7: Working with the Brush Tool

Lecture 8: Working with the Pencil Tool

Lecture 9: Using the Contour Tool and Centerline Tool

Lecture 10: Using the Camera View

Chapter 2: 02 Designing the Character

Lecture 1: Designing Characters to Animate

Lecture 2: Cleaning up Your Character's Linework

Lecture 3: Adding Colors to the Character

Lecture 4: How to set up Character Layers

Lecture 5: Setting up Front, Side and 3/4 Views

Lecture 6: Working with Drawing Substitutions and Views

Chapter 3: 03 Working with Pegs

Lecture 1: What's the difference between a Drawing and a Peg?

Lecture 2: How to Set Drawing Pivots

Lecture 3: How to Set Peg Pivots

Lecture 4: How to set your Character's Pivots

Chapter 4: 04 Using Bone Deformers

Lecture 1: Bone Deformer Rigging Basics

Lecture 2: Rigging the Torso

Lecture 3: Rigging the Arms

Lecture 4: Rigging the Legs

Lecture 5: Rigging the Hair with Bone Deformers

Chapter 5: 05 Using Parent-Child Rigging

Lecture 1: The Basics Parent-Child Rigging

Lecture 2: Nudging Objects forward on the Z-axis

Lecture 3: Using the Kinematic Output

Lecture 4: How to Add Pegs to Deformers

Chapter 6: 06 Using Symbols & Patches

Lecture 1: How to Create Symbols

Lecture 2: Advanced Leg Rigging

Lecture 3: Advanced Arm Rigging

Lecture 4: Advanced Rigging for the Hair

Chapter 7: 07 Creating the Eyes

Lecture 1: Creating the Eye Symbol

Lecture 2: Setting the Eye Layers

Lecture 3: Cloning the Eye Layer

Lecture 4: Masking the Eye using Layer Masks

Lecture 5: Masking the Eye using the Cutter Filter

Lecture 6: Rigging the Pupils

Chapter 8: 08 Adding the Mouth

Lecture 1: Creating the Mouth Sketches

Lecture 2: Cleaning up and Inking the Mouths

Lecture 3: Creating the Mouth Layers

Lecture 4: Masking the Mouth Layers

Chapter 9: 09 How to Save a Template

Lecture 1: How to rename your Drawing Substitutions

Lecture 2: Adjusting the Frame Exposure of Drawings

Lecture 3: How to Create a Master Peg

Lecture 4: How to Nudge Layers on the Z-axis

Chapter 10: 10 A Basic Eye Blink

Lecture 1: Create a Simple Eye Blink Animation

Lecture 2: How to Create Action Templates

Chapter 11: 11 Creating a Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: Setting Your Contact Poses

Lecture 2: Setting Your Passing Poses

Lecture 3: Animating the Hair

Lecture 4: How to Set Your Walk Cycle Timing

Lecture 5: Converting Your Keyframes to Animate on 2s

Lecture 6: Saving Your Walk Cycle as a Template

Lecture 7: How to Avoid a Sliding Walk Cycle

Chapter 12: 12 Exporting Animations

Lecture 1: How to Export an H.264 format video

Lecture 2: How to Export Your Video w/ Alpha Channel

Lecture 3: How to Export Stills

Chapter 13: Closing

Lecture 1: So, What's Next?