Harmony 16: Produce exceptional animation more efficiently than ever

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Shift and Trace in Camera View

Artists now have the Shift and Trace tool right where they need it: The Camera View. Streamline work and save time when producing frame-by-frame paperless animation, and create a smoother, more natural flow.

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Onion Skinning

Harmony 16's new Onion Skin View keeps you productive and focused on the task at-hand by consolidating your go-to Onion Skinning tools with new built-in opacity sliders simply in one window. Advanced Onion Skin gives you the power to choose which drawings or frames you see for finer control over your animation.

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Drawing Substitutions

Cut-out rigs can contain multiple drawing substitutions so you can quickly and efficiently swap one for another during the animation phase. With Harmony 16's new, user-friendly Drawing Substitutions view, all drawings on selected layers are conveniently displayed as thumbnails.

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Instantly Modify Multiple Frames

Animators often need to adjust the position of a prop or character over multiple frames; Harmony 16's Animate Onion Skin Range makes the task of manually editing a prop, character or pose over multiple frames faster and easier. Also, swiftly apply changes to multiple frames with the new Apply to Onion Skin Range's Paint and Select tools.

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Shake Node and 2D-3D Integration

Streamline compositing tasks with Harmony 16. In just a few steps, instantly loop animation cycles or infinitely tile backgrounds. Also, simulate a natural-looking camera shake with the new Shake Node and cut out third-party 3D software when rendering 3D models into 2D directly in Harmony 16.

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Modify Deformers

In a single move, you can effortlessly select multiple points on a Curve or Envelope Deformer to modify its shape. Then, nudge your points for precise positioning.

Master Controller Setup Wizards

For improved usability, Harmony 16 comes with pre-packaged Master Controller Setup Wizards. It has never been easier for riggers and artists to adopt this powerful tool — no scripting required.

Performance Enhancements

Stay on-track and productive with Harmony 16's key performance enhancers. Work from a local cache when using Harmony Server to increase productivity, reduce latency and shorten times for loading and saving files. Plus, render at the speed you need — including 4K scenes.