What's New in Harmony 15 Essentials

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No matter what kind of animation you are working on, you want your production to be at its best. Harmony 15 has new tools that unleash your creativity and improve productivity.

Drawing and Painting

Productivity enhancers speed up the art creation process and new drawing technology in Harmony 15 breaks down the barriers between bitmap and vector.

Recolour

When you’ve used the wrong colour on a character or the wrong colour palette, recolouring tools solve the problem instantly. With a few clicks, you can remap a single colour for multiple drawings or you can change an entire colour palette with a built-in script.

Scene Layout and Compositing

Harmony includes an extensive scene layout, animation, compositing and effects toolset that is unmatched by any other animation package. Harmony 15 builds on this with new features that make it easier for you to create backgrounds and composite effects so the final result is exactly what you envision.

Guides and Vanishing Points

In Harmony 15, drawing tools snap to new guides and vanishing points, so you can draw props and do background layout in the right perspective faster, with minimum effort.

Thumbnails In The Timeline

Visualize and build your scenes from A to Z. Expand thumbnails, change drawing exposure durations with handles and adjust the opacity of layers – all within the timeline.

Production

Retina Display Support

With support of Retina and other high resolution displays, the Harmony 15 interface looks sharper and cleaner, making it easier to use.

Agnostic Audio Requirements for Windows OS

With Harmony 15, you can now import and play sound and export movies on Windows systems that don’t have Apple® QuickTime installed. Windows Media Foundation is used instead.

Improved Performance

Focused caching improves the performance of scenes that include complex cutout rigs. With the new OpenGL Cache Lock node, you work on one part of a rig without refreshing the cache for the rest -making it faster and easier to animate rigs.