Chapter 3: About Toon Boom Harmony

Toon Boom Harmony is the most advanced professional animation software on the market. Bringing together an impressive 2D drawing toolset with the ability to work in a real 3D space, and import 3D models,

Harmony Network combines the animation toolset of Harmony with an impressive database for collaborative workflow. Share assets, batch vectorize and render, and increase production efficiency.

Top Features

Advanced Drawing Tools: Texture brushes, and thick and thin pencil lines
Smart Colour Palettes: Colour you can adjust on the fly
Character Rigging: Hierarchy, deform, and effects for creating sophisticated rigs
Special Effects: An array of effects including highlights and shadows, glows, blurs, and a full particle effects engine
Real 3D Camera: A camera you can reposition in a full 3D space
3D Integration: Allowing you to import 3D models, position and animate them in 3D space
Batch Vectorizing and Rendering: Quickly process images for import and export through a single workstation or a render farm
Database File Sharing: Share libraries, colour palettes, animation, and more across the whole team
Production Pipeline Integration: Seamlessly integrate content from pre-production via Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Toon Boom Pipeline

Toon Boom Harmony has been recognized for its excellence by winning many awards, including a Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award and the prestigious Ub Iwerks Annie Award for the integrated pipeline with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro.

Harmony works perfectly with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro for all pre-production phases. Therefore, animatics created in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro can be imported seamlessly in Harmony for animation and scene setup guidance.

Modules

Control Center Module Icon Harmony Stage Module Harmony Draw Module Harmony Sketch Module Harmony Scan Module Harmony Xsheet Module Harmony Paint Module Harmony Play Module Harmony Cloud

Harmony Network is composed of the following modules:

Control Center
Stage
Draw
Sketch
Scan
Xsheet
Paint
Play
Cloud

These modules are all accessible from:

Windows: Start > Programs > Toon Boom Harmony 11.1
Mac OS X: Applications > Toon Boom Harmony 11.1
Linux: /usr/local/ToonBoomAnimation/harmony_11.2/lnx86_64/bin
Controlcenter
Stage
Draw
Sketch
Scan
Stage -xsheet
Stage -paint
Play
ServerActivation
ClientActivation
LicenseWizard