Create a Simple Cut-Out 2D Animation in Toon Boom Harmony

Create a Simple Cut-Out 2D Animation in Toon Boom Harmony, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 19 lectures, based on 60 reviews, and has 340 subscribers.

You will learn about You will learn how to create parent-child rigging How to use use Drawing Substitutions How to use Curve Deformers How to use Bone Deformers …and even how to create a simple Walk Cycle! This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for students, teachers, hobbyist and animation pros looking to learn basic rigging skills in Toon Boom Harmony. or If you are a Flash/Animate user, looking to migrate to Toon Boom, this course is right up your alley! It is particularly useful for This course is for students, teachers, hobbyist and animation pros looking to learn basic rigging skills in Toon Boom Harmony. or If you are a Flash/Animate user, looking to migrate to Toon Boom, this course is right up your alley!.

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Summary

Title: Create a Simple Cut-Out 2D Animation in Toon Boom Harmony

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 19

Number of Published Lectures: 19

Number of Curriculum Items: 19

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 19

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will learn how to create parent-child rigging

How to use use Drawing Substitutions

How to use Curve Deformers

How to use Bone Deformers

…and even how to create a simple Walk Cycle!

Who Should Attend

This course is for students, teachers, hobbyist and animation pros looking to learn basic rigging skills in Toon Boom Harmony.

If you are a Flash/Animate user, looking to migrate to Toon Boom, this course is right up your alley!

Target Audiences

This course is for students, teachers, hobbyist and animation pros looking to learn basic rigging skills in Toon Boom Harmony.

If you are a Flash/Animate user, looking to migrate to Toon Boom, this course is right up your alley!

So, what exactly is “Cut-Out Animation”?

In 2D animation, there are 2 different types of animation. One is hand drawn, or full animation, and the other is cut-out or limited animation. ?With cutout animation you are basically working with a puppet. A good comparison is like of the Halloween decoration of the skeleton that is hinged together. It’s because of this hinging that you can pose the skeleton in different positions.

Cut-out animation became very popular with the advent of television, and a need to provide animated content much quicker than it had been produced. ?A good comparison would be full animation is Bugs Bunny this animation was in theaters, playing before?movies. In contrast cut-out animation is like Fred Flintstone, So by creating a system where not every frame of animation had to be completely drawn out, characters were broken down into pieces (head, torso, arms, legs, etc) or cut out. This way you didn’t have to draw the head more than once, or different mouth movements or hands. A modern day example of cut-out animation is the cartoon South Park. Think about the basic mouth movements of the characters. They were created once, and then used over, and over. This helps speed up the production, as new mouth drawings are rarely needed, if at all.

Even though 2D animation is rarely in theaters in the US, because of new networks like Netflix or Amazon as well as mobile games and Ebooks, 2D animation is still?In high demand.

Our character, The Pepper, was designed to imitate the simplicity of the character Plankton for the cartoon Sponge Bob Square Pants. A basic oval-shape that encompasses his?torso, head, and tail, with simple arms and legs attached.

This course shows you how simple it is to create 2D animation using Toon Boom Harmony, an industry standard for producing animated television shows, and films.?

In this course, I can show you how to:

Set up basic character rigging

How to?Animate a simple eye blink

Learn how to bend and distort drawings

…and even create a Walk Cycle!
(Jobs have been won, and lost on the ability, or inability to create a convincing walk cycle)

This course was designed so you could follow along, and learn not only Toon Boom Harmony, but some of the basic principles of animation itself!

So, enroll in this course, and let’s get this Pepper character moving!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to Our Course

Lecture 1: Welcome & Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up Preferences in Toon Boom Harmony

Lecture 3: Using the Resource Files

Lecture 4: Course Overview

Lecture 5: How to set up Drawing Pivots

Lecture 6: Create Child Parent Rigging for The Peppers Body

Lecture 7: Adding Bone Deformers to your Character

Lecture 8: How to use Kineamtic Output

Lecture 9: Creating an Arm Rig using the Curve Deformer (PREMIUM)

Lecture 10: Creating an Arm Rig using the Bone Deformer

Lecture 11: Rigging the Legs using the Bone Deformer

Lecture 12: Working with Drawing Substitutions

Lecture 13: How to Create a Master Peg

Lecture 14: How to store, or add your Character to Harmonys Library

Chapter 2: Creating a Simple Walk Cycle

Lecture 1: Creating the Contact Poses

Lecture 2: Creating the Passing Poses

Lecture 3: Adding Secondary Motion to the Poses

Lecture 4: Setting the Timing for your Key Poses, and Finishing the Walk Cycle

Chapter 3: Closing

Lecture 1: Closing

Instructors

Tony Ross
Video Trainer, Instructor, and Author: Learning Made Simple!

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5 stars: 38 votes

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