Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials- Simple Turnaround Rigs

Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 60 lectures, based on 106 reviews, and has 623 subscribers.

You will learn about By the end of this course, youll learn how you can rig and animate your own characters using Toon Booms entry level software, Harmony Essentials This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for beginners looking to learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials or If you are transitioning from Flash to Harmony, this course is a good intro It is particularly useful for This course is for beginners looking to learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials or If you are transitioning from Flash to Harmony, this course is a good intro.

Enroll now: Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs

Summary

Title: Learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials: Simple Turnaround Rigs

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 60

Number of Published Lectures: 60

Number of Curriculum Items: 60

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 60

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course, youll learn how you can rig and animate your own characters using Toon Booms entry level software, Harmony Essentials

Who Should Attend

This course is for beginners looking to learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials

If you are transitioning from Flash to Harmony, this course is a good intro

Target Audiences

This course is for beginners looking to learn Toon Boom Harmony Essentials

If you are transitioning from Flash to Harmony, this course is a good intro

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!!!

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 Characters 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: Whats 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 Characters 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, Whats Next?

Instructors

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

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes

2 stars: 3 votes

3 stars: 11 votes

4 stars: 28 votes

5 stars: 62 votes

Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!