Maybe you don't need an animated ad yet because you still don't have a product to sell. Hey, would you love to have your own funny, creative, animated ad - or even an animated video that goes viral - but you don't want to go in debt to pay for one? Here are a few of the topics covered in the course:ĭesigning Cut-Outs for Harmony Essentials Now a full production character rig typically requires the node view and deformers that are only available in Harmony Premium – That being said, even at the entry level of Toon Boom software, out of the box, Harmony Essentials has a stronger set of animation features than programs like Animate or Flash! Node view is essential to this.Have you ever wondered could you create a turnaround rig in Harmony Essentials? In this new course, I'll show you step-by-step how to rig a simple, yet powerful cut-out character just using Harmony Essentials. Pure frame by frame maybe, but even there there’s better alternatives.

There’s no way i’d use essentails for rig based animation.

Open the REFERENCE section, and compare the NODES. You can compare the editions in detail here: I don’t really see the point of Essentials anymore. Perhaps I am overly harsh, but in my opinion Essentials should not be offered anymore in lieu of what the competition now offers. Even OpenToonz (open source and free) offers scanning, vector drawing, nodes, curves/graph editor, a nodal compositor with a wide range of filters (more than Harmony Premium includes), bitmap drawing, unlimited render output size, particle systems, etc. To be honest, Essentials is a very cut-down version - good for beginners, but I’d say you are better off looking at alternatives (OpenToonz, Toonz Premium, Moho) if you cannot afford either Advanced or (better) Premium. No particle systems (so no easy rain or snow animation). Advanced only offers two more: blur-gaussian and colour-override. The list here gives you a basic overview.įilters: Blur-Radial, Colour-Scale, Glow, Shadow, and Transparency.

Toon boom harmony.