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For animators of all skillsets who work with Toon Boom Harmony to share advice, get tips, and talk shop.

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For animators of all skillsets who work with ToonBoom Harmony. Share advice, get tips and talk shop.

This is not a forum for recruiting animators. Posts about hiring will be removed.

Posts that ask animators to work for free will be shot, burnt and thrown in a swamp.

/r/ToonBoomHarmony

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A clip from a Halloween animation I finished recently! An evil scarecrow kidnaps a bunch of baby pumpkins after they damage his hat!

3 Comments
2024/11/29
22:06 UTC

4

why does the boiling line not work?

4 Comments
2024/11/29
17:29 UTC

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Problem with the rain node

https://preview.redd.it/6smb64rlkp3e1.png?width=1226&format=png&auto=webp&s=0bb8c2cc810b9f5670298ed5f4ac847c3dc01f69

So, I'm trying to make this little animation where it starts raining cherries, and, well, despite the particle spawning zone being a cylinder that completely covers the rest of the animation, the cherries are still rendered completely behind, despite half of them clearly having been generated in the foreground. How do I fix that ? All the pegs in the rain group are 3D, it should work, no ?

5 Comments
2024/11/28
21:14 UTC

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Hi! I'm having issues with my Camera View not showing the same as the perspective view.

As you can see in the image below, while I'm trying to create the effect of the raccoon characters to play the guitar., their hand doesn't go above them. The weird thing is that this only happens in the Camera View, since the Perspective view is completely fine. Can someone help me solve it, please?

3 Comments
2024/11/28
03:18 UTC

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"Scene not found error" in storyboard pro?

I tried to open a recently packed SBpro file and got a "scene not found error". I'm probably gonna be stuck redoing my work but if anyone's got a fix for this please help!

0 Comments
2024/11/27
21:04 UTC

1

HELP How do i change the sensibility of the brush?

I need to draw very slowly so the lines can look good

2 Comments
2024/11/27
19:59 UTC

1

Lawyers don't show up HELP

I was doing the clean up of a project and it suddendly wouldn't show layers unless I was selecting them. I don't know what to do

0 Comments
2024/11/27
17:19 UTC

1

Subscription question

If I were to cancel my subscription, would it corrupt any of my projects that I have going on? I have them saved to a one drive.

1 Comment
2024/11/27
16:53 UTC

1

Mash warp problems (or maby rig problems?)

Hi, in my rig, I’m using envelope deformers with weighted-deform underneath to ensure that the textures on the drawings deform smoothly. However, if I try to apply a mesh warp (or a similar node) over the entire rig, it doesn’t work, and it seems that the weighted-deforms are the cause. Does anyone know how to work around this issue? Is it possible to package the rig in a way that the mesh warp treats it as a standalone object?

4 Comments
2024/11/27
11:00 UTC

6

Toon Boom Harmony BEGINNER'S COURSE

0 Comments
2024/11/25
21:02 UTC

3

Anyone have a simple guide to pegs and animating with them?

I'm in an animation course and I just cannot wrap my head around how to do it

4 Comments
2024/11/25
19:21 UTC

2

Need help with select tool and an extra question

Just been rawdogging this program. Picked it up for the first time and the professor didn’t to teach at least the basics for is who have no experience. There’s so many frustrating things about this. Tried finding YT tutorials but they don’t help with what I’m tweaking about currently. Today’s problem is the select tool. It selects the whole drawing. I just wanna move the head, so I outline the head, right? No, it still selects the whole thing. I’ve been using the cutter option instead but it messes everything up. Can I just select certain lines? Not even sure if what I’m asking makes sense

The other question I had is why when you copy-paste a frame, when you draw on it, it also changes the from you copied from. I copy-pasted a walk section cuz obv I don’t wanna redo it all but the character was then holding something. I went back to review and it’s holding the same object during the first segment. So me confused erases it and what’d ya know it also erased it everywhere else

Edit: 1 more thing. How do I turn off where it automatically fills gaps with frames? Someone asked in class and the prof was abt to show us but then he said he forgot how he did it🗿

9 Comments
2024/11/25
07:52 UTC

2

Issues with Blending Node and Overlapping layers.

So I've been running into a handful of issues with the shadow effect I've applied to my bouncing ball. The main ones that I have yet to figure out are that the shadow I have applied through use of a cutter keeps appearing above the tree layer it is meant to be beneath despite the layer itself being shown as 'underneath' said tree layer. The other issue I'm having is that I cannot seem to get the 'blending' node to function on the shadow. Other nodes such as transparency work just fine but I really wanted to set the blending mode for my shadow as multiple so it fits into the scene a little better.

https://preview.redd.it/bh7sw9qs103e1.png?width=1914&format=png&auto=webp&s=6375b2fa3ddfced112320577e08ad83eca98dd41

Any suggestions are appreciated!

3 Comments
2024/11/25
07:24 UTC

3

Going Crazy with lipsync

Hi all, I am animating a Rig for an animation test. I need to do lipsync but the mouth of the rig is divided into parts (lips, teeth, tongue) what I would like to avoid is to have hundreds of “white dots” in the timeline for each mouth I edit, but not having a single layer drawing for the mouths I have no idea how to do it. Maybe it is normal to have in the main peg many white dots based on the mouths but it seems very confusing to me.

2 Comments
2024/11/23
10:07 UTC

1

Issue with the keyframr scale

Im trying to have a small object get slowly bigger, but when i try to enlarge the size of said object inside of the second keyframe, the scale tool only works on the y axis, i cannot bend it horizontally and so cant get the object to be larger. What can i do and is this normal?

0 Comments
2024/11/22
21:07 UTC

74

Finished this animation. Thanks for the help!

13 Comments
2024/11/22
18:50 UTC

1

Importing images with external camera

Hi all New to this and just wondering if there’s any way to add an external camera? To Acquire media there’s only a Scanner and I could Import after taking photos of drawings elsewhere but just wondering if there’s a quicker way to import. Thanks

3 Comments
2024/11/22
09:29 UTC

1

Hide Line Color After Converting Bitmap to Vector?

Probably a dumb question but it's been a few years since I've worked in Harmony. I've got a Bitmap layer with lines in various colors. I want to hide colored lines and keep only the black lines.

I thought I could do this by converting to vector and lowering the alpha of the specific line colors, but I'm not seeing my line colors in the colour palette. Is this possible and I'm maybe just doing something wrong?

8 Comments
2024/11/21
22:16 UTC

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Link to external palettes, yet Toonboom keeps creating a new copy in my scene folder?

Hi, I'm having a bizarre issue with Harmony 22. I am working on a multi-scene project (all stored within my same computer). I have a "Palette Scene" within my project folder from which I link all my other scene's palettes so that if I change a character's hair colour in one scene it will change across all scenes. My issue is that once I start working on a scene with externally linked palettes, as soon as I get into animation and start moving keyframes around Toonboom inexplicably creates a new copy of all my palettes in that scene's folder and I don't know why. So then I have all my external palettes showing up in the scene palette list, and then a copy of every single one below that, same name but without the red circle indicating external linking. It makes things very confusing when I start using the Colour-Override node and there are multiples of the same palette to choose from. If I delete the copies they just show up again when I start moving keyframes again.

I want my scene palette folders to remain empty except for the original Palette Scene of course. I've searched high and low for the answer but I can't find it. Has anyone else had this issue and can you tell me why it's happening?

Thank you

0 Comments
2024/11/21
21:05 UTC

1

Can toon boom files (not mov) be imported into apple ios animation apps?

I'm going on a trip but i'd like to work on animation while i'm out. Since my laptop is too old i've been using a desktop computer and an ipad with astropad to connect it to toon boom, but i obviously can't do that on a trip. Since there's no toon boom ipad app, is there a way to export files to, say, procreate, flipaclip, toonsquid etc?

2 Comments
2024/11/21
19:35 UTC

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I made Shadow by copying Sonic's rig, and now they take one each other's colors when in the same scene despite the palette having different names. How do I make sure they have distinct palettes? Can I reassign a new palette at this point? I don't want to recolor everything.

14 Comments
2024/11/21
16:35 UTC

1

Best way to do IK on legs/plant feet on a rig in Harmony 23?

I'm currently trying to add an IK (inverse kinematics) system to my rig for the legs and i'm struggling to find a solid method for my rig but a lot of the material on how to do it seems quite outdated. What do you guys do for things like this? Thanks.

2 Comments
2024/11/21
00:13 UTC

3

Helppp, my colors are darker

I don't know what happened, but for some reason my colors are completely different. At least, they still the same in the drawing substitution and when I export.

2 Comments
2024/11/20
19:56 UTC

1

Se bloquea la zona de cámara y aparece un símbolo de prohibido en toon boon al seleccionar Rigging Tool, ¿alguien sabe porque?

2 Comments
2024/11/20
04:53 UTC

1

Help, my paint can and brush aren't working

Hello, I wanted to tell you about my problem to see if you can help me.

What happens is that I was doing color on some plans for a project until the bucket stopped working, it appears transparent along with the brush. I don't know if it's some setting that I touched by mistake or if I have something activated that's not right.

I use toon boom harmony 22

Update: Thank you very much for your answers, it turns out that in properties I had the color disabled/invisible and now I can paint, thank you very much

https://preview.redd.it/8q4y9w6yrx1e1.png?width=673&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dc4a662d6049ecfcd114d3dfcf934c7f6541f74

https://preview.redd.it/s42jmlh2sx1e1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=e46df5bdce8ebf3dc04aea6aab34f7e1486b8d28

7 Comments
2024/11/19
22:41 UTC

1

11 second animation in progress would like some feedback

0 Comments
2024/11/19
04:20 UTC

6

Camera does not show up in the timeline or camera view. It shows in the Node view but nowhere else and can't be used or moved. Can I fix it? It works fine in other scenes.

12 Comments
2024/11/19
02:34 UTC

1

Made this Unicorn Short, would love feedback:

0 Comments
2024/11/18
23:33 UTC

3

Hi! trying to use a rig to animate for my reel but I cant figure out why the eyes are not showing

I'm trying to use the lamb rig from Aixa Massoni and when I open it, the eyes are not showing as more than just a black outline, I already tried checking the position in Z and the drawing substitution, but I haven't been able to figure out this simple thing to be able to start working. This is how it shows when I open it, could anyone please suggest me what can I do for these to show? Thank you!

https://preview.redd.it/25mz953stp1e1.png?width=2404&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad1a134b3af55b23dabfdf5f52364681ce44214e

9 Comments
2024/11/18
19:57 UTC

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