Toon Boom Harmony is the most cutting-edge software available from Toon Boom, with a stunning array of tools that open up the door for a new animation experience. Harmony Standalone provides individual users with the opportunity to work with the time-proven animation software that has been used in studios worldwide.
About Toon Boom Animation
Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in digital content and animation creation software. Toon Boom carries user-friendly animation applications for all, catering to the needs of children, home users, creative professionals as well as students, educators and schools.
As importantly, Toon Boom is fully dedicated to the needs of independent animators and studios, offering a wide product range from powerful pre-production tools to leading-edge animation production solutions. Relying on its extensive expertise in animation production, Toon Boom provides consulting services in the fields of optimization, pipeline integration, production assistance and custom development.
Overview
- Draw the Line Between Flash and a True Animation Pipeline
Building upon its solid foundation in traditional animation, Toon Boom Harmony skyrockets your animation styles to untapped creative realms, offering mind-blowing digital capabilities to creators. The ability to share assets, colour palettes, and to perform rendering through Harmonys networked pipeline evens out the workflow and helps groups to work together, whether they are individuals sitting side-by-side or studios working together across the world. By adopting Harmony, studios join a vibrant community in which Toon Boom acts as the glue to connect and facilitate introductions.
- Draw the Line Between The Past and Now
Toon Boom Harmony delivers capabilities that simply did not exist before. Starting with True Pencil, the ability to draw with pencil lines supporting textures, then on to Deform, the ability to deform images and drawings over a period of time using advanced bone and curve deformers, Effects Inside, the ability to access built-in particle effects and dozens of other effects, and finally, 2D-3D Integration, the ability to import and modify 3D assets within Harmony as well as transform elements on all 3 axes. As the main animation production backbone, Harmony offers full artistic freedom with ease of use and total control.
Whats New in Harmony 9?
- New Pencil Line Technology
In Harmony 9, Toon Boom has re-engineered its vector technology to deliver a redesigned Pencil Line Technology, providing artists with an uncompromised level of artistic freedom which is both easy-to-use and allows total control.
- New Deformation Technology
Harmony 9 now includes a powerful Deformation Technology that enables artists to deform Pixmap Images and Vector Drawings over a period of time.
These deformers can be linked to create a hierarchy of deformations, enablingartists to deform a "single image" and make it move.
- New Particles plug-in and SDK infrastructure
Harmony 9 includes a completely redesigned SDK infrastructure that enables thecreation of powerful plug-ins such as the new Particles plug-in. Having particles in Harmony streamlines the production process and provides artists with easy access to predefined special effects like: Fire, Rain, Clouds, Fog, Generic, where artists can create their own effects. More special effects (particles and generic) will be added later. Customers will be notified as soon as these are available.
- 2D-3D Integration
Harmony 9 offers the first true 3D integration with our 2D flagship animation solution. Artists can import 3D models and 3D scenes into Harmony and manipulate all of their 2D and 3D elements into a unified environment, then render them together. Harmonys 3D Space goes even further by allowing transformation on all 3 axes and authorizing compositing with external Z buffer sources such as IFF images.