Toon Boom Course At Paarsh E-Learning

Animation 2D

Toon Boom

Overview
Syllabus

Course description

Toon Boom is a software tool used for creating 2D animations for TV shows, movies, and other forms of media. It is often used in the animation industry by professionals who specialize in 2D animation.

Toon Boom is widely used in the animation industry and has been employed in the production of numerous animated TV shows, films, and web series. It provides a versatile and powerful platform for creating high-quality 2D animations with a wide range of artistic styles and techniques.

Harmony: Toon Boom Harmony is their flagship product, offering a comprehensive set of tools for 2D animation. It allows artists to create traditional hand-drawn animation, cut-out animation, and rigging-based animation. Harmony provides a range of features including a versatile timeline, drawing and painting tools, camera and scene setups, effects, and compositing capabilities.
Storyboard Pro: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is designed for pre-production and storyboarding processes. It enables artists to create storyboards, animatics, and layouts for animation projects. Storyboard Pro offers a user-friendly interface with drawing and editing tools, camera movements, timeline-based sequences, audio integration, and collaboration features.
Pipeline Integration: Toon Boom software is known for its seamless integration into animation production pipelines. It supports interoperability with other industry-standard software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, and Autodesk Maya. This allows for a smooth exchange of assets and data between different stages of the production process.
Rigging and Character Animation: Toon Boom's software provides powerful rigging tools for character animation. Artists can create complex rigs with advanced control setups, allowing for efficient and expressive character animation. Rigging in Toon Boom typically involves creating hierarchies, setting up deformers, and defining motion controls.
Effects and Compositing: Toon Boom software offers a variety of effects and compositing capabilities to enhance the visual appeal of animations. Artists can add and customize effects such as blurs, glows, shadows, and transformations. The software also includes compositing features to combine multiple layers and elements into a cohesive final image.
3D Animation: Toon Boom has expanded its offerings to include 3D animation capabilities. Their software allows artists to create 2D animations within a 3D environment, enabling the integration of 2D and 3D elements seamlessly.

What you will learn from this course?

Animate personalities dancing to a beat.
Animate lip-synched lyrics
Rig characters in Toon Boom Harmony using parenting, and various deformers
Animate a melody video, or short

This course includes!

Daily Live session
A recorded session with problem-solving material
Access on Mobile and TV
Certificate of completion
Recommended Certificate
100% Job Assistance

This course is for

Animating to Music using Toon Boom Harmony
Step-by-Step HD video training covering:
Creating a Cycle based on BPM
Importing our character
Stop motion vs motion keyframes
Creating a dance cycle
Bouncing to the beat
arm movement
Adding the head movement
Offsetting secondary motions
Setting key poses
...and many more
Covers ALL 3 versions of Toon Boom Harmony (Essentials, Advanced, Premium)

Prerequisites for this course

Though it is not required, being familiar with graphics programs like Photoshop, or Illustrator will help
You will need a copy, or demo of Toon Boom Harmony to follow along (works with versions 12-14+)

Overview

Bring your stories to life with Toon Boom Harmony. Learn to use Harmony for 2D animation and character rigging.
Introduction

• Welcome • Animate vs. Flash • Harmony versions • Animate and video card settings • Exercise files
1. Interface
  
  • Creating scenes • Views, toolbars, and workspaces • Library • Timeline and Xsheet
2. Drawing
  
  • Camera view and Drawing view • Interface navigation • The Pencil tool • Pencil textures • The Stroke tool and invisible lines • The Brush tool • The Polyline tool and shapes • Erasing lines and optimizing and cutting • Transforming objects • Setting exposures • Layer exposures
3. Color
  
  • Colors and textures • Colored-ink lines • Line art and color layers • Inking with the Pencil
4. Traditional Animation
  
  • Drawing keys and breakdowns • Drawing the in-betweens • Clean up
5. Digital Animation (motion Graphics)
  
  • A bouncing ball with paths and arcs • Functions for easing in and out • Squashing and stretching an object • Nudging in 3D space • Symbols and cycles • Morphing
6. Character Setup And Rigging
  
  • Importing and creating a color palette • Lining the character • Child-parent relationships • Pegs • Using masks to create an eyeblink • Sharing functions and adding drawings
7. Animating A Rigged Character
  
  • Animating • Animating with inverse kinematics • Morph-tweening the character • Adding mouth shapes • Fine-tuning • Templates
8. Multiplane Camera
  
  • Camera multiplane • Animating the camera
9. Sound And Dialogue
  
  • Importing audio • Dialogue
10. Effects
  
  • Adding effects: Essentials • Adding effects: Premium
11. Exporting Movies And Images
  
  • Exporting movies and image sequences