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″As script writing, storyboarding and animation are done within the same premises, we are able to achieve significant efficiency gains. Once the script is approved, the team starts using Storyboard Pro to the fullest. (..) Then, the animators import the Storyboard Pro files in Harmony and starts fine-tuning the animation and facial expressions. Using the animatic as a reference, they can work more accurately and efficiently. Our animation style is quite snappy. We are proud of our technique as even though it is done the cut-out way, it really looks traditional. Given the paperless workflow, animators are able to deliver 60 seconds of finished animation per week, sometimes more (..) Our expertise and proficiency in Toon Boom technology combined with the fact that all the production is done under one roof result in 15% savings in terms of efficiency and far more in terms of quality″

″Toon Boom is a fantastic asset to our company and we’re looking forward to using the new technology to great effect on all our upcoming projects. We’re just finishing production on Gelert and Toon Boom has allowed our animators to get shots we may not have been able to achieve if we’d used any other software .″

″Harmony has been an essential tool in creating our latest project, Toot and Puddle. It's the closest we've come to creating a traditional, "hand drawn" show, while increasing productivity .″

″Thanks to the animation work optimization provided by Harmony, the production time and costs per episode were significantly reduced, making the series project possible. Harmony integrates all the production stages, from drawing to scene compositing in one interconnected workflow. This way, animators can work faster, producing two minutes of final animation per week each. (..) Harmony enables us to reduce the level of traditional animation we do while developing more cut-out animation. That is a perfect solution for us. Not only do we save time and money throughout the production, but also, we remain true to the unique Cordel engraving art style .″

″The producer was visiting us every three weeks for two days. Zviah was able to check the animation and request corrections during the online editing. The team was receiving her instructions and uploaded the corrected episodes on FTP within hours only so that he could check and approve several episodes in two days only. Harmony worked great for us as we could implement all the changes she requested and deliver a final product in record time .″

″It (Harmony) automatically interpolates from one pose to another and also has a great versatility to quickly produce animations. Our animators felt freer and more creative. (..) We value the Customer-Server environment that offers us an orderly and centralized production library, helps manage all the scenes and projects, distributes information efficiently as well as schedules programmed backups easily. On the creative side, we have met our quality requirements thanks to Harmony’s flexibility and really appreciated not to have to use external programs. It is a very powerful tool to be recommended to big and small productions.″

″Through co-production arrangements, key partnership relationships in Canada, Europe and Asia, Toon Boom’s products continue to assist us in going beyond the limits as we continue to build a significant client base, by pushing the boundaries of artistic and technical processes in house. It is the intention of our key production personnel, who are from Canada and Europe, to continue working closely and call upon the support of the Toon Boom technical team, as we venture into new productions and begin working on the expansion of our third studio, within our existing Batam facilities in Indonesia .″

″Harmony and Storyboard are a dream. That's why we're moving almost all of our animation production on to the innovative and artist-friendly packages created by Toon Boom .″

″Before Toon Boom, our 2D work was done in Flash but bringing Harmony into our studios has changed all that. (..) Harmony was the major tool that made NSTeens a practical project to undertake. With our tight timelines and expertise in 3D animation, Toon Boom Harmony lets us easily distribute the 2D process between our animators without concerns over consistency .″

″It’s a no-brainer. Harmony blew us away like Acme rocket skates. With its unified workflow, effortless mechanics, intuitive interface and cool tools, making the switch from Flash to Harmony is one of the easiest decisions our team has ever made. On URBO we tried to mimic the pipelines of the big studios, with segregated departments, using custom folder structures and paper-based sign-off policies. The problem with using Flash to do it, is that it’s essentially a web tool and we’ve found that we’re constantly wrestling with the software on simple operations like a basic camera move or pivot points. As soon as we saw Harmony, we knew we were going to be able to step everything up. In our two weeks of training on Harmony, we’ve tripled the speed of our character animation thanks to hierarchical linking and easy animating with I.K., while Glue has made our joint problems a thing of the past .″

″Toon Boom Harmony has proven to be a great tool for creating, animating and compositing our movie. Toon Boom Harmony has given us the possibility to produce TV series and feature films at low cost and highest quality .″

″Harmony has enabled us to achieve the specific textured look add fluidity to the style of Wobbly Land. (..) It is such a vast piece of software we have yet to use all its functions and really push it in different types of animation pipelines. It may seem daunting to people used to Flash but once you get used to Harmony the creative possibilities are far superior to other software on the market .″

″As the story is set in a large valley with several landscapes, we make full use of the multi-plane camera to give actual depth when the camera travels throughout a scene which creates more eye-catching environments. (..) Thanks to the palette manager, it was easy to adjust the colors and adapt the look of the valley for each season. (..) Harmony also enables us to work with several animation styles: there is the reality of the village, then, there is the look specific to songs and dreams and finally, the rough pencil look used on the white board .″

″The purpose of using Harmony for our whole production process was to alleviate the need to use multiple software. It has helped us in automating lip synching, thereby saving us a good amount of time. Harmony gave us the flexibility of using camera or multiple cameras in a 3D environment to set action as we had the option to view side and top to plan which helped our creative director to implement his input on the digital side. We have a good amount of characters in this series and Harmony helped us streamline our color styling process too″

″While Cosgrove Hall celebrates its 30th Anniversary, we plan to give the industry an idea of what is next for Europe’s largest animation studio. Adopting Toon Boom Harmony is a critical step in our strategy.″

″To further our level of efficiency and bring our quality standards even higher, we decided to install Toon Boom Harmony throughout our studio.″

"While morphing is possibly Harmony′s most powerful tool set, I would say that the fact that all of Harmony’s animation tools were built on top of Opus, already a successful compositing package, is it‘s most positive feature, This gives us the ability to not only create animation that would normally require several different software packages, but it also enables us to adapt the software to the production. With Harmony, we can make anything from cut out animation to traditional without having to compromise or change the style to suit the tool."

"Our loyalty to Toon Boom Animation products is not based on the know-how we already acquired, but mainly because of the continuous development and the company dedication to making the art of animation accessible to individual artists who dream of highly professional production."

"We enjoy the workflow flexibility afforded us by utilizing Harmony on Monstories. Harmony's efficient paint tools help streamline our color styling process; we easily export color palettes from Harmony to send to PASI, and just as easily import files sent in return to continue post-production here at Facelift. The ability to create our digital paint files with resolution independence makes the transition to multiple platforms a simpler process. Currently we use Harmony's digital paint capacities and are already working on our new project for next year where the full capabilities of Harmony could be used."