New Features in Harmony 16

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When working on a production, efficiency is key and Harmony is all about helping you stay focused. Through a set of new powerful tools, Harmony 16 supports pipeline integration and helps you be more efficient, increase your productivity, and solidify your workflow process.

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Shift and Trace in Camera View

A new Shift and Trace tool is now available in Camera view. Having this tool available right where artists need it helps streamline work and save time when creating frame-by-frame paperless animation. Create a smoother and more natural animation flow by:

• Positioning pegs where you want: on the side, top or bottom
• Removing a drawing from its pegs to offset, scale and rotate for precise positioning
• Shifting multiple drawings at the same time.

New Onion Skin View

Harmony 16 helps you stay focused on the task at hand by neatly consolidating your go-to onion skinning tools and newly added features into one window.

Boost your productivity (or find another way of saying: reduce the headache of having to search for your onion skinning tools) with Harmony 16’s new onion skin view. Your favourite features are now consolidated in one window and come with built-in opacity sliders. You also have the freedom to choose which drawings or frames you see with the Advanced Onion Skin.

Flexible Onion Skin Opacity Levels

Manage your reference drawings with new built-in sliders in the Onion Skin view. Control their individual opacity levels manually or link the sliders together for a quick adjustment.

Advanced Onion Skin

For finer control over your animation and to stay on model, activate Advanced Onion Skin, and then select which drawings you wish to see before and after. You have the freedom to choose which drawings or frames you see, skipping over the ones that aren’t essential.

Effortless Drawing Substitutions

Cut-out rigs can contain many drawing substitutions, enabling animators to quickly swap one drawing for another during the animation phase. With the new Drawing Substitutions view in Harmony 16, all drawings for the selected layer are now conveniently displayed as thumbnails. You can;

• Quickly view all available substitutions and easily make your selection.

• Zoom in/out to view larger or smaller thumbnails.

• Pop out the window and resize it to display more thumbnails.

Animate Onion Skin Range

Expedite the task of manually editing a prop, character or pose over multiple frames with this new tool. Select your element, define the frames via the Onion Skin and make your modifications. It’s as simple as that!

Apply to Onion Skin Range

Swiftly make changes with this new flexible feature. Use the Onion Skin to select your drawing or simply a portion of what you want to change. Apply your changes with the Paint and Select tools which will quickly modify your selection across multiple frames.

Tile Option for Backgrounds

You can infinitely tile your background vertically or horizontally to create even longer pans, helping you avoid the need to copy and paste keyframes.

Export to GIF

Instantly transform your scene into an animated GIF with Harmony 16’s new export feature. Don’t forget to share your GIF for a chance to go viral!

Improved Interactivity

Interactive software rendering speeds have been improved. If a prop is modified or an effect is added to a character or a scene, Harmony 16 will merely render the item changed and not the entire scene, significantly cutting down render times. Harmony 16 also has faster rendering speeds for 4K scenes.