Harmony Essentials Foundation
This course will take you through the core concepts in Harmony Essentials for you to understand the basic usage. You will also be introduced to the two main animation techniques Harmony is used for; traditional paperless animation and cut-out animation.
Interface Overview with Harmony Essentials
Learn to navigate the Harmony Essentials interface, add toolbars, move views, and customize the workspace.
About the Interface
About Menus
About Toolbars
Adding Toolbars
Moving Toolbars
Resizing Toolbars
Customizing View Toolbars
About Views
Adding Views
Closing Views
Moving Views
Showing and Hiding Views
Resizing Views
About Workspaces
Loading Workspaces
Creating Workspaces
Saving Workspaces
Restoring the Default Workspace
Drawing with Harmony Essentials
Learn all about the basic drawing tools and how to use them with Harmony Essentials.
Drawing with the Brush or Pencil Tool
About the Tool Properties View
About the Brush Tool
Drawing with the Brush Tool
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
About the Select Tool
Selecting
About Shape Tools
Drawing with the Rectangle, Ellipse, and Line Tools
About the Cutter Tool
Cutting Artwork
About the Contour Editor Tool
Reshaping a Drawing with the Contour Editor Tool
About the Centerline Editor
Reshaping Brush Strokes
About the Eraser Tool
Erasing
Modifying the Eraser Settings
Painting Drawings
About the Stroke Tool
Drawing with the Stroke Tool
Closing Gaps
About the Edit Gradient and Texture Tool
Using the Edit Gradient and Texture Tool
Activity 1: Basic Drawing
Introduction to Animation with Harmony Essentials
Learn how to animate frame-by-frame with Harmony Essentials by animating a bouncing ball.
About Paperless Animation
Timeline View
Xsheet View
Extending the Exposure of Previous Drawings
Using the Onion Skin
Typing Exposure
Creating Cycles
Setting the Exposure
Cleaning Animation
Using the Light Table
Activity 1: Rough Animation
About Duplicate Layers
Duplicating Layers
About Colour Palettes
About Colour Swatches
Adding a Colour Swatch
Adding a Gradient Colour Swatch
Adding a Texture Colour Swatch
Painting Multiple Drawings
Activity 2: Changing the Colour of the Animation
Activity 3: Adding a Colour Card and Exporting
Importing Content with Harmony Essentials
Learn how to import bitmap and vector images to your project with Harmony Essentials.
About Bitmap Image Import
Importing Bitmap Images
Importing PSD Files as Separate Layers
Changing the Bitmap Image Quality
About Vector Image Import
Importing AI and PDF Files
Setting the Scene Length
Extending a Single Exposure
Importing a Sound File
Playing Sound
Activity 1: Importing a Background and Sound File
Staging with Harmony Essentials
Learn how to position, scale, and rotate your elements with Harmony Essentials.
About the Animate Mode
Selecting Layers
About the Transform Tool
Repositioning the Temporary Pivot
Panning with the Transform Tool
Rotating with the Transform Tool
Scaling with the Transform Tool
Skewing with the Transform Tool
Flipping with the Transform Tool
About Advanced Animation Tools
About the Layer Properties View
Positioning with Coordinates
About Multiplane
Top View
Side View
Setting Up a Multiplane
Activity 1: Creating a Multiplane Layout
Camera Motion with Harmony Essentials
Learn how to animate camera moves on the Harmony Essentials stage.
About Cameras
Adding a Camera
Selecting the Active Camera
About Pegs
About Keyframes
Adding Keyframes in the Timeline View
Deleting Keyframes
About Layer Parameters
Enabling Constant Z
Animating the Camera
About Controls
Displaying Controls
Adding Control Points
Setting Eases on Multiple Parameters
Activity 1: Creating a Camera Truck-in
Activity 2: Preparation and Preferences
Activity 3: Multiplane Setup
Activity 4: Camera Motion
Activity 5: 3D Path Trajectories
Basic Effects with Harmony Essentials
Learn how to quickly add effects to your project with Harmony Essentials.
About Effects
Adding Effects
Connecting Effects
Blur
Transparency
Cutter
Using the Cutter Node
Glow Node
About Effects Preview
Previewing Effects in Render Mode
Playing Back Effects
Exporting a QuickTime Movie
Activity 1: Staging a Night Scene
Activity 2: Adding Blurs and Transparencies
Activity 3: Masking a Light Source