Your FIRST HOUR in TOON BOOM HARMONY ESSENTIALS – Beginner's Tutorial

CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 – INTRODUCTORY BANTER
00:11:32 – THE INTERFACE
00:19:20 – RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
00:21:16 – ANIMATE WITH SPEED (SHORTCUTS)
00:25:23 – DRAWING OVERVIEW
00:33:48 – BEGINNER GOTCHA’s
00:36:05 – FRAME BY FRAME DEMO
00:49:24 – COLORS
01:03:30 – PEGS
01:13:12 – CAMERA AND MULTI-PLANE
01:19:33 – WHERE TO GO FROM HERE

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This is my first attempt at a (hopefully) kinda helpful and a bit rambling beginner's tutorial in Toon Boom, using it's lowest tier version "Essentials". I didn't have that much of a plan while making it, and it ended up a bit long. Still, I hope it contains some useful informations for some of you! Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see more such things!

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Official Toon Boom YouTube Channel

Oli Putland

Onion Skin

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[RebelToons]

This was so good! I've been learning 2D animation in Blender... because it's free, but I've been wanting to get into a better 2D animation program. This video got me really excited to learn Toon Boon Harmony. Thank you so much!

[BlissAnimations]

The funny thing is that you're constantly comparing to flash while I'm probably one of the few opentoons users here. Toonboom isn't too different it, just seems more specialized for vector and rigged animations. Thanks for this tutorial, it is really well made!

[drewski]

Damn, best tutorial I've seen for toon boom, now I just gotta learn the node system, I was hoping you had a tutorial for that too.

[darthgrif]

This is very helpful! I hope there is an interactive guide like blender guru on making an animation

[blakeszymczak]

This was such an awesome introductory video to Harmony! One of the best I have found on Youtube

[gamesdog]

I am currently trying to decide between animate and harmony and this is definitely swinging me toward Harmony. Thanks for helping a wannbe animator 2 years after you made this :)

[gavinpikcom]

Thank you so much for making this video! Been using adobe animate for the past few years and I have been putting off the jump to a better animation program, but this video makes me super excited to finally start using this program (which appears like just a better version of animate in every way)

[prettyspectrum]

I got this video recommended on reddit. Forgot to leave a comment, but omg is this video amazing 👏

[capspanky]

Hella solid advice, Joel for president

[ohwellhey]

thank you a LARGE amount!! this was a super helpful guide to get started with!! there were just so many buttons and exploring every little thing seemed so daunting because I wouldn’t know which features i would actually find useful just for the pure basics!! cleared up so many things and I can’t wait to fiddle around with the 3d camera stuff more - also i found the quick “well that’s a wrap for the video - see you guys later” joke when you played the live-preview of your presentation slides very funny

[akiani]

Thanks so much for this. I'm going to work my way to slowly learning toonboom until it becomes my main animation program.

[earth__erica]

Super helpful! I’m getting close to getting back into animation and im glad I came across this

[hemanticr]

This is amazing! You're an amazing teacher as well

[yaroboy_video]

thank you this is a very useful and informative video!!!

[AntonDelTorro]

Very helpful! Thank you for this amazing tutorial!

[animationlife]

Is there a difference between pivot animation or puppet animation and bone animation . Which is more real in Toon Boom

[efficientfuture]

How do you make your lines smooth?
How do you draw straight lines?

[callmekayxx]

Great video but since it's old I doubt you will reply...😢 I just wanted to know in Adobe animate we have scenes but here we don't how do I get them 😞

[crake]

Can I adjust the brush hardness in Harmony Essentials? Every tutorial I've watched has a Hardness slider but mine is missing this in the Brush Properties panel.

[yelftea]

Bro did his homework 5mins before submission😂😂