Harmony 20, the industry’s leading 2D animation software, brings the latest in digital drawing sensitivity to its brushes — every marking, every style, every texture you want to create and leave for the audience is felt. Rulers, guides, colour control & features as well as innovative deformers enrich your animation, bringing reality and fantasy within millimeters of each other. Rulers, guides, color control and features, along with innovative deformers, enrich your animation. This allows you to add whimsy to reality, while the two are only a few millimeters apart.
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Create art and emotion in every style
Artists express themselves through their work, creating distinctive markings on a surface — each as unique as their maker. The right tool can capture both the true essence of an image and offer a glimpse into the creative spirit of the person behind it. The right tool can capture both the true essence of an image and offer a glimpse into the creative spirit of the person behind it.
Create art and emotion in every style with one powerful end-to-end animation software. Whether you prefer paperless or cutout animation, Harmony 20 is helping to set the trends for award winning animation that is hitting the market by storm. The latest in lighting, shading, special effects and others give more life to your features and series. Advanced rigging and master controller functionality support creative expression, while saving time and money!
The best animation studios and storytellers around the world rely on our software to produce their stories, while maintaining creative integrity.
Available in Three Versions
Harmony 20 enables 2D animation studios and artists to express their dreams and tell their stories in their creative voice, bringing ideas from concept to screen.
Each has differing progressive features and price points based on the number of advanced features. Let’s explore the benefits and features available in all versions of Harmony and delve into some new and noteworthy features of Harmony 20
Essentials
Introductory edition for students and enthusiasts.
Provides the fundamental drawing, painting, and animation tools needed to create outstanding animation.
Advanced
Advanced edition for freelancers, studios and other creatives
Designed for full traditional, paperless style animation. Also includes support for simple cut-out style animation.
Premium
Complete professional edition for studios, small creative businesses, freelancers and schools working on the most demanding projects.
Adds ability to create sophisticated cut-out rigs, very natural and realistic character movement plus unlimited special effects for any style of animation.

Benefits of Harmony
- Unlimited creative freedom on your terms
- Flexibility, functionality and sensitivity of tools allows you to create with the highest quality
- All-in-one tool for efficient animation — from drawing to final production
- Cost and time savings
- Reliable team that stands behind their software and services; we are reachable — speak with our team live.

- Value; while we do not have the lowest prices, we do ensure the highest quality ensuring the integrity of your artistic expression
- Chosen by the leading animation studios worldwide who are setting the industry standard, for over 25 years
- We don’t say we are the best, our Emmy-winning 2D animation technology has the awards to prove it Our community and network makes us unique; we were built for animation professionals and we intend to stay that way
- Our community and network makes us unique; we were built for animation professionals and we intend to stay that way
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New NOTEWORTHY FEATURES included in Harmony 20
- The smoothest texture deformation with the Weighted-Deform Node
- Create depth, volume, and more realistic animations with new Lighting & Shading
- Advanced color management environments and effects give artists and studios full control over the accuracy of their project’s colours from initial illustration to final export New colour effects nodes: colour curves, colour levels, gamma and colour-fade

- Drawing and creativity live hand-in-hand and snapping Alignment Guides make it faster & easier
- Des améliorations ont été apportées au dessin avec à l’esprit les artistes de l’animation, et elles facilitent et accélèrent la création d’animations
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Choose the Harmony edition that meets your needs.
- Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Paperless (Basic)
- Vector drawing tools
- HD and 2K camera resolution
Includes all features from Essential, as well as:
- Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Basic Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film
- Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
- HD, 2K and 4K Camera Resolution
- Advanced tools for paperless animation
- Harmony Server
Includes all features from Essential + Advanced, as well as:
- Target usage for 2D Games, Advanced Cut-out, Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film, Effects Compositing
- Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
- HD, 2K, 4K and 8K+ Camera Resolution
- Advanced tools for paperless animation
- Harmony Server
Compare Features
- Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Paperless (Basic)
- Vector drawing tools
- HD and 2K camera resolution
- Effects layers/nodes: 7
- Tools for paperless animation: Pressure sensitive brush tool, onion skinning, ink & paint.
- Simple cut-out: Simple timeline layer hierarchy, bone deformers.
- Multiplane: Layers and cameras can be moved along the Z-axis to create multiplane and parallax effects and change their compositing order.
- Scripting support for task automation: Qt scripting environment to automate operations.
Includes all features from Essential, as well as:
- Target usage for 2D Games, Cut-out, Basic Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film
- Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
- HD, 2K and 4K Camera Resolution
- Advanced tools for paperless animation
- Harmony Server
- Effects layers/nodes: 12
- Tools for paperless animation: Pressure sensitive brush tool, onion skinning, ink & paint.
- Simple cut-out: Simple timeline layer hierarchy, bone deformers.
- Multiplane: Layers and cameras can be moved along the Z-axis to create multiplane and parallax effects and change their compositing order.
- Scripting support for task automation: Qt scripting environment to automate operations.
- Advanced tools for paperless animation: Shift and Trace, Advanced Onion Skin, Variable width Pencil Lines, Textured Vector Brushes and Pencils.
- Harmony Server:
- Multi-user environment: Support for optional Harmony Database server for storing and managing scenes.
- Advanced scanning & vectorization: High speed scanning and batch vectorizing available with Harmony Database server.
- Integrated batch rendering: Integrated batch rendering available with the Harmony Database server.
Includes all features from Essential + Advanced, as well as:
- Target usage for 2D Games, Advanced Cut-out, Paperless, Traditional Scan & Paint for TV Series and Film, Effects Compositing
- Vector and Bitmap drawing tools
- HD, 2K, 4K and 8K+ Camera Resolution
- Advanced tools for paperless animation
- Harmony Server
- Effects layers/nodes: All
- Tools for paperless animation: Pressure sensitive brush tool, onion skinning, ink & paint.
- Simple cut-out: Simple timeline layer hierarchy, bone deformers.
- Multiplane: Layers and cameras can be moved along the Z-axis to create multiplane and parallax effects and change their compositing order.
- Scripting support for task automation: Qt scripting environment to automate operations.
- Advanced tools for paperless animation: Shift and Trace, Advanced Onion Skin, Variable width Pencil Lines, Textured Vector Brushes and Pencils.
- Harmony Server:
- Multi-user environment: Support for optional Harmony Database server for storing and managing scenes.
- Advanced scanning & vectorization: High speed scanning and batch vectorizing available with Harmony Database server.
- Integrated batch rendering: Integrated batch rendering available with the Harmony Database server.
- Advanced cut-out: Node view for advanced rigging. Curve, Mesh, Free From Deformers and Constraint nodes. Master Controllers
- 3D Rotation: Layers, camera and 3D models can be rotated on the X and Y axis for complete 3D rotation support.
- Import 3D Models: Import and manipulate 3D models directly from Harmony. Manipulation are limited to position, rotation and scaling without deformers.
- Deep Image Compositing Support: Support for Deep Image Compositing when rendering 3D models using Arnold or RenderMan through Harmony.
- Particle Systems: Particle System to generate environmental effects such as rain, snow or more abstract like glowing trails.
- OpenFX Plugin Support: Support for third party OpenFX plugins for effects and compositing.
- Proprietary SDK: Access to Harmony C++ SDK to create plugins and tools.
System Requirements
An Internet connection is required to activate the software.
The following requirements are for users of Harmony Stand Alone and client workstations of Harmony Server. Harmony takes advantage of a fast multi-core CPU, high RAM capacity and high-end video cards.
System requirements can be updated or changed without notice.

- Windows 7 (64-bit, excluding Starter and Home Basic)
- Windows 10 (64 bit)

- macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
- macOS 10.14.6 (Mojave)
- macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina)
Hardware | Recommended | Minimum |
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Processor | Intel Core i7, Xeon or better | Intel Core i5 |
Memory | 32 GB | 8 GB |
Monitor 4K monitors with scaling up to 200% supported (Windows)Retina display supported (macOS) | 1920 x 1080 | 1280 x 800 |
Video Card (Windows) | NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 (Recommended) NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2070 (Best) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 |
Video Card (macOS) | Radeon Pro 560 (Recommended) Radeon Pro Vega 64 (Best) | Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 |
Drawing Tablet | Wacom Bamboo, Intuos or Cintiq | |
Disk Space (Windows) | 1 GB | |
Disk Space (macOS) | 1.25 GB |
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