Toon Boom Harmony – Animation and Rigging Essentials
Faculty: Animation
Duration: 10 Weeks 6-9pm Wed & Thu
Delivery: On Campus
Levels: Certificate
Start Date: TBC
Course Director: Ruaidhri O’Shea
Fees: €1,000
Certification: Pulse College Certificate
COURSE CONTENT
Are you a professional 2D animator looking to upskill in Toon Boom Harmony, are you an animation graduate looking for experience in industry standard software and practices, or are you a beginner looking to find out more about 2D Animation industry practices? If so this is the course for you! This ten week Harmony course suits 2D Animators looking to both break into and upskill for industry or people who wish to learn about animation workflow in both tradigital and cut out animation.
Learn how to take the traditional approach in harmony using its wide array of benefits to take your animation from a rough pass to clean up seamlessly. Learn industry workflows with rigged models working pose to pose and making use of Harmony’s advanced graph editors to work smarter and faster. Discover animating 2D images in a 3D environment and taking your scenes all the way from reference to final export. Learn how the rigging process saves studio’s time and budget, learning how to design, build, template, problem solve, organise and troubleshoot your rigs to master your workflow.
After ten weeks students will be leaving with a complete knowledge of Harmony, 3 showreel ready pieces, a fully functional rig of their design for their portfolio and a complete understanding of industry standard workflow. Pulse College will provide all licences for this course.
Week One
Introduction to Tradigital Animation
Week Two
Traditional workflow rough to clean up
Week Three
Understanding colour in Harmony and exporting for comp
Week Four
Rigs, Node view, importing and using reference, body mechanics and understanding the graph editor
Week Five
Lip sync and rig navigation
Week Six
Adding to existing rigs, character acting, finding work as a 2D Animator
Week Seven
Animation Recap, finalising scenes, final animation feedback
Week Eight
Creating Rig templates, navigating node view, groups, getting organised, creating colour palettes, line art in Harmony
Week Nine
Mouth charts, cutter nodes, creating eye and brow cutter nodes
Week Ten
Auto patches, pivots, deformers, alternate deformer chains, kinematic outputs
Tutor – Ruaidhri O’Shea
Ruaidhri O’Shea is an animation director, 2D animator, motion designer and from County Meath. With over a decade experience working in industry with companies and studios such as; Treehouse Republic, Giant Animation, Keg Kartoonz, Zulleon, Algorithm and more. Ruaidhri has been teaching here in Pulse for five years and is certified in education, learning and development. He is a dedicated teacher and enjoys supporting and facilitating the growth of Ireland’s incredible animation community as well as supporting the European Super Smash Brothers Melee community in his free time.
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HOW TO APPLY
This course is suitable for anyone with an interest in Animation. No previous experience is required.
Upon receiving your application form our Admissions Team will be in contact to discuss securing your course place.
Start Date:
Wednesday TBC
10 Week Course:
6pm-9pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
There are no prior requirements needed to apply for this course.
There is no interview application for this course.
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FEES
€1,000*
This course is not recognised on the ILEP and therefore not available for international student application.