Harmony Essentials
Animation Concepts with Harmony Essentials
This course covers all the essentials animation concepts, from animation principles to production pipeline with Harmony Essentials.
5 Modules
9 hours 40 mins
History of Animation
Learn about animation history and how it evolved to today's digital animation.
Animation Techniques
Learn about the different types of animation, then do your own research and come up with others.
Animation Workflow
Learn about the process of animation in the traditional, paperless, and cut-out styles of animation.
Animation Principles
Learn about classic animation principles, then work on a series of fun activities designed to further your understanding of them.
Introduction to Animation Principles
Squash and Stretch Principle
Timing Principle
Anticipation Principle
Straight Ahead and Pose-to-Pose Principle
Follow Through Principle
Arcs of Rotation Principle
Slow-in and Slow-out Principle
Secondary Action Principle
Exaggeration Principle
Solidity Principle
Activity 1: Experimenting with Space and Time
Activity 2: Drawing a Pendulum
Activity 3: Animating the Playground (Optional)
Activity 4: Observation and Timing
Activity 5: Drawing a Bouncing Basket Ball and Bowling Ball
Activity 6: Animating a Bouncing Ball with a Tail
Basic Concepts with Harmony Essentials
Learn about the animation basics and tools from traditional animation and technology worlds that shaped up some of the core concepts in Harmony Essentials.