You are such a legend for sharing this livestream. I was captivated the whole 4+ hours and learned a ton. You are a wonderful teacher and an amazing animator
There are very few toon boom harmony lessons in my language (Russian) and they are very bad. I am very glad that you got me in the recommendations. I like that you don't just list the tools, but also talk about their usefulness in your practice. Thank you.
Thank God I've found this 😭 our Professor in 2d animation didn't taught us how to use toon boom and we are using it for our course.. Thank you so much for this!💜
Oohh, hi Micah! Toon Boom Harmony is my favorite program by far for sure, but it's so different from TVPaint, feels like they're both are excellent at their specific things. Toon Boom is a great general animation and puppet program, and I appreciate the non-destructive motion-tweens using the peg system. Whereas you can never get how nice and traditional it feels to animate in TVPaint, and those brushes. 👌 So, I think they're both good at what they do!
This was great!! I followed along for a majority of the class and finally feel like I can make something! There are a few weird technical issues I have to figure out, but those are gonna have to be questions for the Toon Boom support team, lol
Wow, many many years ago I looked at your tutorials for guidance in animation and here I am again, thank you so much :) Oh btw, it was the toon boom tutorial from 7 years ago.. i didn't learn it due to factors of difficulty and time but, i have learned many arts over the years :) so excited to watch this in it's full entirety and learn :D
this class was awesome, I stayed for the first half, (will watch the rest later) and your way of explaining things is really great. Will you ever do more streams like this one?
Hello, i might have missed something, but how did you fill the eyes at 3:10:49 without the paint bucket tool, same thing for the neck shadow at 3:14:00 ? And later they both appear as simple strokes in the color art panel at 3:27:15
watching this rn and i fr stayed throughout the whole stream, iw ish you mentioned something abt using the camera during animation but overally this was a great lesson. :)
Thank you so much! Your videos are the best Toonboom tutorial for a beginner like me. I love how you explain how the tools apply to works, not just list them. Hope you share more videos about Toonboom ❤
This was so comprehensive thank you! And so interesting to see how you taught your process and clarified certain tools and steps. I agree with some other feedback comments about getting to the animation stage quicker, but having this as a 4 hour video that people can skip through to the parts they most need is great (maybe dividing into chapters/sections would help navigate to these). My only other two points would be - you stress how you hardly ever use the brush tool anymore and that you find the pencil infinitely more useful for all tasks, and then you spend the rest of the video animating with the brush tool - that felt confusing. And similarly you stressed that the black arrow selection tool was the tool to use to edit images, and then you used the transform tool to move your reference drawings - again this might feel a bit confusing. No big deal though. Thanks again.
All good feedback! Yeah, I agree with organizing things a bit differently for next time, and that's good to know that those two moments were confusing! I'll make sure to clarify why I'm doing certain things more in the future, and for the brush tool, I prolly just forgot and was just drawing without thinking about which tool I was using. xD
@@jessejayjones I've just finished watching. That was awesome and SO SO helpful. Thanks ever so for putting the time in. And you'll be pleased to know I am ditching Adobe Animate in favour of Harmony. :) What an amazing bit of software!
Dear Jesse, it would be amazing if you could answer me this question: Despite the amazing features of Harmony's morph tool, I can't find any advanced resources on how to effectively make use of it, even on TH-cam. For instance, there's this owl created with the morph tool on ToonBoom's "learning center" I guess, but that's it, no explanation on how to actually do it. Do you know where I could search for a tutorial on that or are you maybe even planning on making a video about it? :) Thank you so much for the stream, your kind & patient teaching methods are amazing, really loved it! :))
Thank you so much Jesse for this excellent course !.. You Rock !.. 👍👍❤❤🕊🕊 Speaking about Harmony Advanced, the fact is this version provides the four layers ( underlay, color, line art, overlay ) wich are very usefull, as you demonstrate in the course !.. Shift and Trace is provided as well... Thank you for showing us how you can manipulate the " image reference " and use it in the software !.. Again, thank you for this course : it is a must watch for every beginner in Harmony, and not only beginners !.. You provide the best approach I ever seen !.. Easy to follow, effective, congratulations for this course wich is unique !.. I highly recommand !.. 😉
HI! Thanks for your video it was really helpful. I have a question, can I import a video or a series of images as a background without having to import them one at a time? I've never used Toon Boom Harmony, but I'm learning from your videos and trying to figure out if it's the right program for me. Thank you.
Hi Jesse, thanks for this tutorial. I'm a beginner animator looking to work freelance as well as do my own projects and I still don't what software to use. I've barely started opentoonz but the constant crashes and lack of recent tutorials make it difficult. So i'm thinking of going with the basic version of harmony. Given your credentials, what do you think ? As a freelance 2D animator, do i have to know harmony or can i get away with using something else as long as I get the job done ? Thank you
I think Harmony is a great choice, especially if you're looking to do animation for work. It's an industry standard, and it's my favorite software to animate in! :) You could also check out my Krita tutorial (which is free) if you'd like to experiment with something else! th-cam.com/video/-B3LDBlkFWU/w-d-xo.html
@@jessejayjones i did actually start on krita after watching your tutorial, thanks for that too ! It just seemed limited in terms of animating multiple layers and stuff like that... I don't remember if it has layers actually.. May I also ask your thoughts on using 3D animation software (blender, C4D) for 2D ? I know completely different and some might argue it's "fake 2D" but what do you think ?
This video seems so promising. I'll come back here and edit my comment to make timestamps to help everyone. We need more videos like these, whenever I search for smtg of toonboom it's like an 8 year old video that don't work anymore. So thanks a lot
Can someone please tell me which computer to get?? I know nothing about animating, toon boom, or computers. I have a computer but it’s very old with little storage, and I’ve been needing to upgrade, so I want to get one that will run the latest toon boom software, the one that will run the best. Please help!! I’ve used both apple and windows computers, but I prefer apple because it’s just easier for me to operate. BUT if windows is preferred for toon boom, I have no issue getting one. Please let me know!!
If you shop for *gaming* computers, they often fill the same requirements needed for animation software! :) Both Apple and Windows work with Toon Boom Harmony, so go with what you prefer!
ctrl+f: it'll go full screen mode if you press it once, if you press it twice then the section you're using (indicated with the red contours) will be bigger and almost take up the whole screen leaving some things like the play buttons or the tools
Amazing video. My only criticism is that you get straight to the point without talking about ‘why you shouldn’t save as new’, folder structure, it makes it completely disjointed and hard to follow.
That's very fair criticism! Yeah, this was my first time teaching a live "class" on TH-cam, and I would agree I think next time I should get right to animating and drawing stuff, then I can go over extra details later. Thanks for your input! :)
You are such a legend for sharing this livestream. I was captivated the whole 4+ hours and learned a ton. You are a wonderful teacher and an amazing animator
Thank you! That means a lot! :)
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There are very few toon boom harmony lessons in my language (Russian) and they are very bad. I am very glad that you got me in the recommendations. I like that you don't just list the tools, but also talk about their usefulness in your practice. Thank you.
Aw, yay! I'm so glad you found it helpful! ^^
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Thank God I've found this 😭 our Professor in 2d animation didn't taught us how to use toon boom and we are using it for our course.. Thank you so much for this!💜
I'm a TVPaint guy, but this video is converting me to the ToonBoom family.
Oohh, hi Micah! Toon Boom Harmony is my favorite program by far for sure, but it's so different from TVPaint, feels like they're both are excellent at their specific things. Toon Boom is a great general animation and puppet program, and I appreciate the non-destructive motion-tweens using the peg system. Whereas you can never get how nice and traditional it feels to animate in TVPaint, and those brushes. 👌 So, I think they're both good at what they do!
BEYOND grateful for you. Today is day 2 in toonboom (coming from flash) and I am relieved for this free instruction. Truly - thank you
I'm glad it was helpful! :)
starting toonboom to pursue professional animation and this is a lifesaver dude you deserve the best
This was great!! I followed along for a majority of the class and finally feel like I can make something! There are a few weird technical issues I have to figure out, but those are gonna have to be questions for the Toon Boom support team, lol
Wow, many many years ago I looked at your tutorials for guidance in animation and here I am again, thank you so much :)
Oh btw, it was the toon boom tutorial from 7 years ago.. i didn't learn it due to factors of difficulty and time but, i have learned many arts over the years :)
so excited to watch this in it's full entirety and learn :D
this class was awesome, I stayed for the first half, (will watch the rest later) and your way of explaining things is really great.
Will you ever do more streams like this one?
Thank you, I'm glad you could make it to the class!! I definitely plan on doing more. :)
Hello, i might have missed something, but how did you fill the eyes at 3:10:49 without the paint bucket tool, same thing for the neck shadow at 3:14:00 ?
And later they both appear as simple strokes in the color art panel at 3:27:15
caught so many insights that i can even measure my improvement, excelent content, congratz and thank you 😉
I watched some great stream, thank you from Malaysia
Thank you. I've seen some of those old videos and was looking for more, THANK GOD I found such a valuable class.
Glad you found it helpful! :)
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watching this rn and i fr stayed throughout the whole stream, iw ish you mentioned something abt using the camera during animation but overally this was a great lesson.
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thank you for this video! I really wanted to learn toonboom without paying $900 for the class they offer, you have helped alot!
How do you duplicate windows 38:30?
Thank you so much! Your videos are the best Toonboom tutorial for a beginner like me. I love how you explain how the tools apply to works, not just list them.
Hope you share more videos about Toonboom ❤
Great video! I love the way you laugh 😂
Am glad there's not a drinking game with the amount of times you say "um"
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This was so comprehensive thank you! And so interesting to see how you taught your process and clarified certain tools and steps. I agree with some other feedback comments about getting to the animation stage quicker, but having this as a 4 hour video that people can skip through to the parts they most need is great (maybe dividing into chapters/sections would help navigate to these). My only other two points would be - you stress how you hardly ever use the brush tool anymore and that you find the pencil infinitely more useful for all tasks, and then you spend the rest of the video animating with the brush tool - that felt confusing. And similarly you stressed that the black arrow selection tool was the tool to use to edit images, and then you used the transform tool to move your reference drawings - again this might feel a bit confusing. No big deal though. Thanks again.
All good feedback! Yeah, I agree with organizing things a bit differently for next time, and that's good to know that those two moments were confusing! I'll make sure to clarify why I'm doing certain things more in the future, and for the brush tool, I prolly just forgot and was just drawing without thinking about which tool I was using. xD
Man thank you so much ❤
Totally going to follow along to this. As a newbie I’m trying to find a software I like. Can I ask why you prefer this to adobe animate?
Doesn't crash near as often, and the drawing tools are infinitely better :)
@@jessejayjones I've just finished watching. That was awesome and SO SO helpful. Thanks ever so for putting the time in. And you'll be pleased to know I am ditching Adobe Animate in favour of Harmony. :) What an amazing bit of software!
Dear Jesse, it would be amazing if you could answer me this question: Despite the amazing features of Harmony's morph tool, I can't find any advanced resources on how to effectively make use of it, even on TH-cam. For instance, there's this owl created with the morph tool on ToonBoom's "learning center" I guess, but that's it, no explanation on how to actually do it. Do you know where I could search for a tutorial on that or are you maybe even planning on making a video about it? :) Thank you so much for the stream, your kind & patient teaching methods are amazing, really loved it! :))
This tutorial made my day so informative, I just have one thing to ask, Why didnt you use third option of Art layer for shading ?
Glad it was helpful! And there are several different ways to accomplish the same thing and no wrong way, so your suggestion would've worked also! :)
Thank you so much Jesse for this excellent course !.. You Rock !.. 👍👍❤❤🕊🕊 Speaking about Harmony Advanced, the fact is this version provides the four layers ( underlay, color, line art, overlay ) wich are very usefull, as you demonstrate in the course !.. Shift and Trace is provided as well... Thank you for showing us how you can manipulate the " image reference " and use it in the software !.. Again, thank you for this course : it is a must watch for every beginner in Harmony, and not only beginners !.. You provide the best approach I ever seen !.. Easy to follow, effective, congratulations for this course wich is unique !.. I highly recommand !.. 😉
Thank you so much!! ^^
Can you get Rigging puppets in the basics Package? Or is it in premium?
Pretty much in the Premium, but you can do some very basic character rigging with Pegs in all versions.
@@jessejayjones thanks
im taking notes and this looks so fun to learn i wish my college taught 2d animation
The Bob’s Burgers Movie was animated with this software, so this is definitely the best animation software that has ever been made.
HI! Thanks for your video it was really helpful. I have a question, can I import a video or a series of images as a background without having to import them one at a time?
I've never used Toon Boom Harmony, but I'm learning from your videos and trying to figure out if it's the right program for me. Thank you.
Please, is there symbol library like the one in Adobe Animate?
Thank you so much!
Hi Jesse, thanks for this tutorial. I'm a beginner animator looking to work freelance as well as do my own projects and I still don't what software to use. I've barely started opentoonz but the constant crashes and lack of recent tutorials make it difficult. So i'm thinking of going with the basic version of harmony. Given your credentials, what do you think ? As a freelance 2D animator, do i have to know harmony or can i get away with using something else as long as I get the job done ?
Thank you
I think Harmony is a great choice, especially if you're looking to do animation for work. It's an industry standard, and it's my favorite software to animate in! :)
You could also check out my Krita tutorial (which is free) if you'd like to experiment with something else! th-cam.com/video/-B3LDBlkFWU/w-d-xo.html
@@jessejayjones i did actually start on krita after watching your tutorial, thanks for that too ! It just seemed limited in terms of animating multiple layers and stuff like that... I don't remember if it has layers actually.. May I also ask your thoughts on using 3D animation software (blender, C4D) for 2D ? I know completely different and some might argue it's "fake 2D" but what do you think ?
@@came_leon I don't actually know enough about 2D animation in Blender, that's something I'm still learning, but it seems pretty cool!
@@jessejayjones thanks, i hope you 'll talk about it in your future videos then !
how do fix pencil i tried coloring in with red it just turns black
Nice
can you do a moho tutorial?
uhh when i crtl z something it imiedietly switches into hand mode Q-Q idk i changed hand's shortcut and nothing changed
do you have any advice on how to get in contact with a netflix animation recruiter?
This video seems so promising. I'll come back here and edit my comment to make timestamps to help everyone. We need more videos like these, whenever I search for smtg of toonboom it's like an 8 year old video that don't work anymore. So thanks a lot
are you planning on creating a discord server anytime soon?
I have one currently for my Patreon supporters! www.patreon.com/jessejayjones :)
Can someone please tell me which computer to get?? I know nothing about animating, toon boom, or computers. I have a computer but it’s very old with little storage, and I’ve been needing to upgrade, so I want to get one that will run the latest toon boom software, the one that will run the best. Please help!! I’ve used both apple and windows computers, but I prefer apple because it’s just easier for me to operate. BUT if windows is preferred for toon boom, I have no issue getting one. Please let me know!!
If you shop for *gaming* computers, they often fill the same requirements needed for animation software! :) Both Apple and Windows work with Toon Boom Harmony, so go with what you prefer!
X: what did u learn?
Me: umm
is their anyway to only show the paper for when you are drawing
ctrl+f: it'll go full screen mode if you press it once, if you press it twice then the section you're using (indicated with the red contours) will be bigger and almost take up the whole screen leaving some things like the play buttons or the tools
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Amazing video. My only criticism is that you get straight to the point without talking about ‘why you shouldn’t save as new’, folder structure, it makes it completely disjointed and hard to follow.
That's very fair criticism! Yeah, this was my first time teaching a live "class" on TH-cam, and I would agree I think next time I should get right to animating and drawing stuff, then I can go over extra details later. Thanks for your input! :)
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The shortcut for cutter tool is
Ctrl T
I just got advanced harmony...did i screw up
less matter more hammer
How is this free ❤
Its a monthly paid software: Advanced $79 a month 600$ a year
They also offer permanent licenses. Which is what I have. I prefer to *own* my software. ;)
It's 2023, still 720p res for art tutorial?
MOHO is a one-time purchase: download or physical version $399
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