See why the most ambitious 2D productions around the world choose Harmony. Having an all-in-one animation solution allows artists in studios to collaborate using the same programs and project files, from drawing roughs to rigging characters and compositing. Whether you work with hand drawn animation or character rigs, Harmony gives artists everything you need to animate with style.
Harmony is available in three versions, designed specifically to answer the needs of different types of clients.
Harmony Essentials is perfect for enthusiasts, it provides the fundamental drawing, painting, and animation tools needed to create outstanding animation.
Harmony Advanced is designed for students, and professional animators and studios, it supports full traditional, paperless style animation. It also includes features for simple cut-out style animation.
Harmony Premium is created for professional studios and freelancers as well as educational institutions and it allows for the creation fo sophisticated cut-out rigs, very natural and realistic character movement plus unlimited special effects for any style of animation.
Toon Boom Ember, introduced as a beta test in early spring, is now available as an add-on to users of Storyboard Pro 25 and Harmony 25. These opt-in AI tools allow professional teams to work with fewer interruptions, iterate faster and focus on the creative process. Rather than attempt to replicate the work which artists and animators contribute to a project, Ember's purpose is to assist. 21 day free trial with Harmony 25.
Reduce scene load times and long file transfers with smaller project files in Storyboard Pro and Harmony 25. This quality-of-life improvement to Storyboard Pro and Harmony was made possible by both optimizing the structure of and compressing complex project files. Additionally, both Storyboard Pro and Harmony 25 have an option to save a project as a compact file structure, ideal for collaborating remotely with artists and studios.
Originally created by Pixar, Universal Scene Description (USD) is an open standard for transferring 3D scene data along a CGI production pipeline. Harmony Premium 25 supports importing 3D models in the USDZ format, as well as importing and exporting animation data and camera movements. This update significantly expands flexibility for new pipeline integrations.
Draw with the same brushes in your storyboards and animation that were used in visual development. Storyboard Pro, Harmony Advanced, and Harmony Premium 25 can directly import Photoshop ABR brushes, allowing artists to expand their brush libraries. ABR brushes can either be imported as vector and bitmap brushes, and can also be used as erasers.
Improving on drawing tools in Storyboard Pro and Harmony, artists can now adjust the opacity and thickness of existing pencil lines by drawing over with the Pencil Line Retouch Tool in Storyboard Pro, Harmony Advanced and Harmony Premium 25. This allows pencil lines to more accurately mimic natural media while remaining versatile and adjustable throughout the ink & paint process.
Avoid accidentally adjusting the timing of finished scenes while scrubbing through your project by using the Lock Timeline Ruler command in Harmony 25. Scene markers will appear dark to show they are locked and scene duration will not be adjustable in the timeline until Lock Timeline Ruler is toggled off.
Fine-tune your rigged character animation and other keyframed objects in Harmony Premium 25 using the Breakdown Pose Assistant. As the most natural breakdown between two key poses is often not halfway between two keyframes, the Breakdown Pose Assistant allows animators to adjust which keyframe a specific breakdown favours. This tool is highly customizable and can even be used to assist with antic and overshoot poses.
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For 30 years and counting, Toon Boom Animation has been the global leader in pre-production and 2D animation software with clients in over 140 countries. We have made our mark with products which include Harmony (end-to-end animation) and Storyboard Pro (storyboarding and layout), which continue to build upon their reputation for high-performance tools that push the limits of creativity. Producer (production management) and Jump (drawing and animation tools for game development) are the most recent new products to join the line-up. Disney Television Animation, Bento Box, Fox Television Animation, Dog Head, Toei Animation, The SPA Studios, Xilam, and Boulder Media, are just a few examples of our high-profile clients.
