
Harmony also works with other software by importing and exporting a wide variety of industry standard file formats, allowing it to easily integrate different pipelines. Using Storyboard Pro, you can create your production's animated storyboard or animatic, then export it into separate Harmony scenes, allowing you to seamlessly create your scene layouts and poses based on your storyboard. A 3D space, which allows you to move and rotate layers in all directions and create multiplane environments.Visual effects, which allows you to streamline the production pipeline by reducing the need to use third party tools.Deformers, which allows you to define articulations on a drawing and deform it without having to re-draw it.Harmony has a very wide set of features to unlock the full potential of digital animation, such as: Digital, or cut-out animation, where character rigs are created to be animated by moving, rotating, stretching, squashing, deforming or swapping the drawings of different body parts.
Paperless animation, where each drawing is created from scratch using the drawing and animation tools in Harmony. Traditional animation, where each drawing is sketched and cleaned up on paper, scanned in Harmony, then digitally inked and painted. The technology in Harmony gives artists and studios the freedom to create animation using various techniques, including: This license will have a different product code, which will also be available in the My Downloads section of your Toon Boom account.Toon Boom Harmony Essentials is the animation production tool that provides artists and studios with powerful and innovative technology used in blockbuster films, TV series, online series, advertisements, games and many other productions. Once an upgrade code is activated, it permanently converts the license for the older version of the product to a license for the newer version of the product. The new license also allows you to run the previous version of the software. When you use an upgrade code to upgrade a Toon Boom product, the previous license is returned, then converted to a license for the newer version of the product, which is then activated on your machine. You can upgrade the license on your computer by activating this upgrade code. Likewise, if the product for which you have a perpetual license has more than one edition (ie: Harmony), and you want to upgrade from a lower tier edition to a higher tier edition, you can purchase and activate an upgrade code to upgrade your product edition.Īn upgrade code is an 18-digit code starting with " UPG" which is stored in your Toon Boom account and can be found in the My Downloads section: To be able to use a newer version of the product, you must purchase and activate an upgrade code. Perpetual licenses only support the version of the product for which they were purchased.