Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

Course details

Migrate your animation workflow from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony. While these 2D animation programs are similar, the differences can really prevent an experienced Flash animator from making a smooth transition. Having a concise, go-to guide for comparison, as Dermot O' Connor provides here, is an enormous time saver. Join Dermot as he introduces the Flash tools and their Toon Boom equivalents and shows how to complete common drawing and animation tasks in Harmony, including onion skinning, pivoting and scaling, shape optimization, bitmap tracing, easing, tweening, IK rigging, facial animation, effects, and more. At the end of the course, he'll teach you how to edit audio and export your Toon Boom work as still images and movies.

Learning objectives
Transforming shapes
Using the Pen and Line tools
Working with text
Painting in Toon Boom Harmony with the Paint, Ink Bottle, and Eraser tools
Working in the timeline
Drawing in Toon Boom Harmony
Converting lines to fills
Arranging drawing elements
Motion and shape tweening
Masking
Copying and pasting frames, exposures, and drawings
Moving the camera
Importing and exporting from Toon Boom Harmony

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Toolbar

04 - Setup, preferences, and project structure
05 - Selection and Subselection
06 - Free Transform
07 - Gradient Transform
08 - 3D Rotation
09 - The Lasso tool
10 - The Pen tool
11 - Using text
12 - The Line tool
13 - Hairlines (invisible lines)
14 - Rectangle and Oval
15 - The Pencil tool
16 - The Brush tool
17 - Using bones
18 - Using the Paint Bucket
19 - Ink Bottle
20 - The Eyedropper tool
21 - The Eraser tool
22 - Width
23 - Hand and Zoom
24 - Using color
25 - The Snap tool

2. Windows

26 - Align
27 - Information and Transform
28 - Color and Swatches
29 - Library
30 - Working in the timeline
31 - Using the camera

3. Drawing and Design

32 - Drawings and exposures vs. keyframes
33 - Managing, renaming, and deleting drawings
34 - Managing exposures on Xsheet
35 - Onion Skin
36 - Cleaning up drawings with the Brush and Cutter tools
37 - Convert lines to fills
38 - Groups
39 - Pivot, scale, skew, and distort
40 - Flip vertical and flip horizontal
41 - Optimize shapes
42 - Distribute to layers
43 - Layer hierarchy (z-nudge)
44 - Arrange elements in depth
45 - Painting highlights, gradients, and shadows
46 - Working with the grid
47 - Trace bitmap
48 - Importing Flash SWF

4. Animation

49 - Motion tweening (using keyframes)
50 - Guide layers
51 - Easing in and out
52 - Adding nested drawings
53 - Navigating through the timeline
54 - Shape tweening
55 - Advanced shape tweening
56 - Creating a body comp
57 - Creating a head and mouth comp
58 - Bones IK rig
59 - Fixing layer issues with z-depth
60 - Hand comp
61 - Eye blink
62 - Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Premium
63 - Masking in Toon Boom Harmony Essentials
64 - Completing the IK rig
65 - Copying and pasting frames, exposures, and drawings
66 - Duplicating characters and layers
67 - Symbols
68 - Opening an external library
69 - Effects
70 - Labels
71 - Camera moves

5. Audio, Importing, and Exporting

72 - Importing and editing audio
73 - Importing images (via vector conversion)
74 - Exporting images and movies

Conclusion

75 - Next steps