Category: Toonboom

I've been trying to churn out some more tutorials for Toonboom Harmony, and I'll be posting them as I go. Here is the first one -- a simple one, about masking pupils to eyes.

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And another from the same production, a ghostly princess.

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This is just a little heads up, for anyone interested. In Harmony/Animate etc etc you can hit a little round button to make a peg and associate your current drawing layer with it. Nice. if you disassociate your drawing layer from the peg, the peg disappears from the timeline. BUT…

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This is just a little heads up, for anyone interested. In Harmony/Animate etc etc you can hit a little round button to make a peg and associate your current drawing layer with it. Nice. if you disassociate your drawing layer from the peg, the peg disappears from the timeline. BUT…

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You have to love a company that’s on top of things. After that last little post — which, admittedly was more the shaking of a tiny fist than a real complaint — ToonBoom’s technical support got in touch with me. My hat is off to you, you crazy French Canadian…

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You have to love a company that’s on top of things. After that last little post – which, admittedly was more the shaking of a tiny fist than a real complaint – ToonBoom’s technical support got in touch with me. My hat is off to you, you crazy French Canadian…

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I’ve been struggling all morning with exposing (“sharing”) functions in ToonBoom Harmony. For some reason, the app stopped letting me share functions. Also, there is this “Deformation-Switch_Kinematic_Chain_Selection_Reference” nonsense happening in my xSheet. ToonBoom, what’s going on? Ugh.

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I’ve been struggling all morning with exposing (“sharing”) functions in ToonBoom Harmony. For some reason, the app stopped letting me share functions. Also, there is this “Deformation-Switch_Kinematic_Chain_Selection_Reference” nonsense happening in my xSheet. ToonBoom, what’s going on? Ugh.

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I’ve been helping out with preproduction for an animated special. The production company is setting up a Harmony workflow from scratch, and of course there are some pipeline issues to work out. This has lead me to look into scripting for Harmony. There isn’t much info out there, but I’m…

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So I went ahead and purchased the 4.5 version, and have a little time to keep poking around. I'm interested in the new features, as poking around in the app without reading the documentation doesn't show a lot of new things happening since v3.5. We'll see.

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I appreciate that one can just start drawing in Toonboom. Sure, it would probably help to know about exposures, Libraries, etc. But for the initial tryout, I want to be able to try out the drawing. I started with the mouse, and it fared well. Drawing is similar to the…

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First impressions of the application, from user interface to documentation. I purchased the download version, and did not receive any packaging or paper documentation. The pdf documentation has a nice table of contents, which is very useful. Also useful are the "See Also" listings at the end of each section,…

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