

This enhancement provides a better and faster way for artists to work in complex scenes.There are two main pipelines for exporting data from Harmony to your game engine: Outline Mode - Reveal drawings that are behind other layers without losing reference to the drawing above.Great for advanced rigs and effects creation, Sync Layer is a simple but powerful way for artists to build the look they want, using as many layers as they need.

Sync Layer for drawings - Be more efficient when animating your rig with unlimited art layers that are always in sync.Artists have more creative control when integrating 3D elements with 2D characters in a unified environment. Animate 3D - Streamline production with new tools to animate your 3D models and their individual parts directly in Harmony - no more back and forth with 3D software.Support for rendered images from Arnold and Renderman that include deep pixel information allows artists to seamlessly composite 2D characters with 3D elements.

Deep Image Compositing - Take quality to a new level when you render 2D with 3D in Harmony.

“By placing this power in the hands of the artists, we are discovering new creative ways to reduce costs while not compromising on the creative.” “The 3D toolset within Harmony 14 has provided our creative teams the freedom to develop projects which would have been impossible in the past on a television budget,” said Michael Lahay, Senior Technical Producer at Nelvana. Customers include Bento Box Entertainment, Disney Television Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Fox Television Animation, Mercury Filmworks, Nelvana and The Spa Studios. With new toolsets for artists and an enhanced 3D workflow, the release of Harmony 14 streamlines creative development and the animation workflow.Īvailable in three editions - Essentials, Advanced and Premium - Harmony is an ideal solution for artists creating feature films, episodic series, games development, webisodes and explainer videos. Toon Boom Animation has announced the release of Harmony 14, the award-winning software that has become the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding.
