Chapter 38: Paperless Animation

Toon Boom Harmony is a powerful paperless animation software that incorporates animation and drawing tools to make your work easier and more efficient.

Although it is a digital process, paperless animation is still hand-drawn and the fundamental principles of animation still apply.

One of the advantages of working with paperless animation is that you do not lose time scanning elements in and testing them because everything is already digital. You can simply draw your animation and play back your line test right away. This also saves the substantial amount of paper required by traditional animation. Another practical advantage is the ability to undo and redo some actions that are often difficult on paper, such as erasing brush strokes.

This chapter is divided as follows:

Preparation
Rough Animation
Secondary Animation
Bringing Your Animation on Model
Animation Clean-up
Tools
Advanced Tools
Paperless Animation Preferences