How To Animate in Toon Boom Harmony (Full Class w/ Q&A)

Ever wanted to learn Toon Boom Harmony? Now's your time!

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Learn how to animate in Toon Boom Harmony, even if you've never drawn before! Used to another animation software like Adobe Animate, Krita, or Clip Studio Paint? All good! You can take all those skills onto learning the industry's leading animation software.

So tune in, ask questions, and come learn along with us! :D

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[justandecai]

You are such a legend for sharing this livestream. I was captivated the whole 4+ hours and learned a ton. You are a wonderful teacher and an amazing animator

[Lesako]

There are very few toon boom harmony lessons in my language (Russian) and they are very bad. I am very glad that you got me in the recommendations. I like that you don't just list the tools, but also talk about their usefulness in your practice. Thank you.

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I'm a TVPaint guy, but this video is converting me to the ToonBoom family.

[prettyspectrum]

This video seems so promising. I'll come back here and edit my comment to make timestamps to help everyone. We need more videos like these, whenever I search for smtg of toonboom it's like an 8 year old video that don't work anymore. So thanks a lot

[nazzie_rmn]

Thank God I've found this 😭 our Professor in 2d animation didn't taught us how to use toon boom and we are using it for our course.. Thank you so much for this!💜

[allosiil]

starting toonboom to pursue professional animation and this is a lifesaver dude you deserve the best

[rosewesterman]

BEYOND grateful for you. Today is day 2 in toonboom (coming from flash) and I am relieved for this free instruction. Truly - thank you

[thegovialjiraffe]

This was great!! I followed along for a majority of the class and finally feel like I can make something! There are a few weird technical issues I have to figure out, but those are gonna have to be questions for the Toon Boom support team, lol

[cloudye]

this class was awesome, I stayed for the first half, (will watch the rest later) and your way of explaining things is really great.
Will you ever do more streams like this one?

[ddd]

Wow, many many years ago I looked at your tutorials for guidance in animation and here I am again, thank you so much :)

Oh btw, it was the toon boom tutorial from 7 years ago.. i didn't learn it due to factors of difficulty and time but, i have learned many arts over the years :)

so excited to watch this in it's full entirety and learn :D

[Prof.Garcia]

Thank you. I've seen some of those old videos and was looking for more, THANK GOD I found such a valuable class.

[lookingforlilli]

Dear Jesse, it would be amazing if you could answer me this question: Despite the amazing features of Harmony's morph tool, I can't find any advanced resources on how to effectively make use of it, even on YouTube. For instance, there's this owl created with the morph tool on ToonBoom's "learning center" I guess, but that's it, no explanation on how to actually do it. Do you know where I could search for a tutorial on that or are you maybe even planning on making a video about it? :) Thank you so much for the stream, your kind & patient teaching methods are amazing, really loved it! :))

[hayleearceneaux]

thank you for this video! I really wanted to learn toonboom without paying $900 for the class they offer, you have helped alot!

[jerushaoketch]

watching this rn and i fr stayed throughout the whole stream, iw ish you mentioned something abt using the camera during animation but overally this was a great lesson.
:)

[barreto_productions]

The Bob’s Burgers Movie was animated with this software, so this is definitely the best animation software that has ever been made.

[quirkyjoeAnimated]

This was so comprehensive thank you! And so interesting to see how you taught your process and clarified certain tools and steps. I agree with some other feedback comments about getting to the animation stage quicker, but having this as a 4 hour video that people can skip through to the parts they most need is great (maybe dividing into chapters/sections would help navigate to these). My only other two points would be - you stress how you hardly ever use the brush tool anymore and that you find the pencil infinitely more useful for all tasks, and then you spend the rest of the video animating with the brush tool - that felt confusing. And similarly you stressed that the black arrow selection tool was the tool to use to edit images, and then you used the transform tool to move your reference drawings - again this might feel a bit confusing. No big deal though. Thanks again.

[paperVultureKite]

1:21:41 timestap for me
1:55:10 export
3:30:10

[sequoia]

im taking notes and this looks so fun to learn i wish my college taught 2d animation

[yentinh]

Thank you so much! Your videos are the best Toonboom tutorial for a beginner like me. I love how you explain how the tools apply to works, not just list them.
Hope you share more videos about Toonboom ❤

[ericduchesnes]

Thank you so much Jesse for this excellent course !.. You Rock !.. 👍👍❤❤🕊🕊 Speaking about Harmony Advanced, the fact is this version provides the four layers ( underlay, color, line art, overlay ) wich are very usefull, as you demonstrate in the course !.. Shift and Trace is provided as well... Thank you for showing us how you can manipulate the " image reference " and use it in the software !.. Again, thank you for this course : it is a must watch for every beginner in Harmony, and not only beginners !.. You provide the best approach I ever seen !.. Easy to follow, effective, congratulations for this course wich is unique !.. I highly recommand !.. 😉