Toon Boom Harmony Rig/Puppet Animation Tutorial (PART 4)

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In this tutorial, we will go over how to animate a puppet rig in Toon Boom Harmony, even if you've never animated with a puppet rig before! By the end of this tutorial, you will take a shot from beginning to end, including how to import audio, animate talking, and export a completed animation as a video that can be uploaded to YouTube!

This tutorial, to an extent, requires Toon Boom Harmony Premium, which gives you access to the node view. You can animate character rigs without the node view, but it makes customizing the rig, and selecting specific parts more difficult. I highly recommend having Toon Boom Harmony Premium to follow along with this tutorial.

Character rigs, or animation puppets, are used in lots of modern animated shows like Rick and Morty, Family Guy, and South Park. Most of the television productions I have worked on have used Toon Boom Harmony Premium for their animation software, and most often it has been puppet rig animation. I feel it's important to know how to animate with a puppet rig to work in many modern animation productions! :)

As always, let me know if you have any questions, want to show off what you're working, or want to talk about your ideas for your own animation, share them in the comments section below!

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:22 - Storyboarding
02:40 - Setting Up Your Scene
04:18 - Importing a Character Rig
05:24 - Rough Pencil Animation
07:55 - Posing The First Keyframe
12:22 - Adding Props
14:46 - Posing Next Keyframes
15:27 - Dropping Off a Prop
17:32 - Copying And Pasting Keyframes
18:41 - Rotating The Head In 3D
19:45 - Adding Motion Tweens And Easing
23:55 - Facial Animation And Lipsync
29:15 - How To Fix A Big Accident!!
31:06 - Adding Blinks
32:52 - Exporting A Video For YouTube
33:22 - Final Animation!

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[jessejayjones]

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[drdavidstr]

awesome ! i wasnt expecting part 4 so soon

[marquisartuis]

Yes make a storyboard tutorial I would love to see that

[QuizTV-fsxp]

Thank you bro! Youre the best teacher in YouTube.

[wolfitrix]

I'm gonna sub to you because I'm a struggling aninator who is trying to make good animation and you kinda are the best teacher in my life...

P.S: I wish you were my animator for my show

[Brraziqved]

The voice.... So nice!! Love your Vids! 💙💙

[inekel_animatorov]

Thanks for the tutorials. I've watched a lot of different videos on animation programs, but yours are the most understandable to me. Could you make tutorials on other animation programs as well? Such as Moho for example

[mbari]

Thank you so much Jesse, can you make a tutorial about hand drawn animation please 🥺 pretty please 🙏?

[RedDragon.fi]

👈👈I've uploaded my second animation. Thanks to all tutorial providers, thanks to all of you I have made a good animation🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[surapureddydundusridurgaga]

Just seen one of your videos from 3 years ago and checked out your channel seen the poor numbers . I thought u might have given up on the content but then I watch this video you got the same enthusiasm in your voice as before what is the secret? for that level of passion anyways good luck to you I would suggest you to make animated content on stories you got nice way of explaining things

[KimJImagery]

Most Rig/Puppet Animation always look so robotic to me.

[bpssamsung]

Your toon boom tutorial from 8 years ago still apply?