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Harmony also works with other software by importing and exporting a wide variety of industry standard file formats, allowing it to easily integrate different pipelines. Using Storyboard Pro, you can create your production's animated storyboard or animatic, then export it into separate Harmony scenes, allowing you to seamlessly create your scene layouts and poses based on your storyboard.

A 3D space, which allows you to move and rotate layers in all directions and create multiplane environments.

Visual effects, which allows you to streamline the production pipeline by reducing the need to use third party tools.

Deformers, which allows you to define articulations on a drawing and deform it without having to re-draw it.

Harmony has a very wide set of features to unlock the full potential of digital animation, such as:

Digital, or cut-out animation, where character rigs are created to be animated by moving, rotating, stretching, squashing, deforming or swapping the drawings of different body parts.

Paperless animation, where each drawing is created from scratch using the drawing and animation tools in Harmony.

Traditional animation, where each drawing is sketched and cleaned up on paper, scanned in Harmony, then digitally inked and painted.

The technology in Harmony gives artists and studios the freedom to create animation using various techniques, including: Meaning, you purchase the Essentials tier renamed something more appropriate and have the ability to pay later to unlock Premium features as you need them.Toon Boom Harmony Essentials is the animation production tool that provides artists and studios with powerful and innovative technology used in blockbuster films, TV series, online series, advertisements, games and many other productions. Bottom line, Essentials offers a limited experience with limited results.Įssentials really should be replaced with an unlockable path to Premium. Sometimes more features lead to an easier process. A lesser number of features does not equate to a simpler process in this case. They face multiple limitations and given the price it could be quite an aggravating disappointment. They have dreams of doing great things too. I do not consider Essentials an intro for anyone unless you need to start getting accustomed to the interface and are in the process of acquiring Premium and just do not have access to a copy of Premium yet.Ĭould a hobbyist be satisfied with Essentials? It is doubtful. Animator Pro was a more robust option to Harmony than Harmony Advanced is to Harmony Premium. AP had the node view but the additional node effects in Harmony were also attractive. The biggest attraction to Harmony (before the 3-tier Harmony) when I was using TB Animator Pro (discontinued) was the Curve Deformer. Of course all personal opinion to follow: