Harmony 22 offers the 2D animation market a taste of performance paired with the spice of gaming.
This year has seen a rise in the demand for 2D animated TV series, feature films as well as gaming and Toon Boom has responded by adding additional power and performance to its industry leading 2D animation software as well as a whole new feature set designed for independent 2D game developers.
The largest animation studios from around the world choose Harmony to produce the highest quality animation, setting the standard for creative storytelling. Our all in one, end to end animation software allows animators to create cut-out and paperless animation in every style imaginable.
Key Features:
- Most advanced brush engine
- Manage color: color space, colour palettes and painting
- Traditional paperless animation or innovative cut-out animation and rigging
- 2D/3D integration for limitless possibilities
- Deformers for even more textures, depth and realism
- Special effects and compositing
- Sound management and manipulation
- Pipeline integration for seamless end-to-end animation
NEW and Noteworthy Features:
- Top performance – 2 times faster than ever before
- Faster cut-out scenes
- Reduced batch render times
- Faster interactive compositing
- Improved interactive manipulation performance
- Apple ProRes
- Alignment with compliance for HDR color management
- New stencil brush
- Creation of brushes in any style, and from any software. Dynamically control line/brush thickness with new presets
- Improved manipulation of deformers / Rigid point deform node
- New Shine Effect – sunbeams
New Gaming features
Bringing the power of our 2D Animation to game developers!
- Solid vector and texture bitmap brushes
- Onion skin
- Ink & paint tools
- Color pallets
Harmony is available in three versions
Each has differing progressive features and price points based on the number of advanced features.
Harmony Essentials
This is an introductory edition for students and enthusiasts which provides the fundamental drawing, painting, and animation tools needed to create outstanding animation.
Harmony Advanced
An advanced edition for freelancers, studios and other creatives. This version is designed for full traditional, paperless style animation. Also includes support for simple cut-out style animation.
Harmony Premium
Complete professional edition for studios, small creative businesses, freelancers and schools working on the most demanding projects. Premium adds ability to create sophisticated cut-out rigs, very natural and realistic character movement plus unlimited special effects for any style of animation.
Toon Boom also has a server version of Harmony Premium and Advanced for studios with large teams and a multi user environment who wish to manage their assets in a powerful database and need batch processing functionality. Please contact us for further details.
Benefits of Harmony
- All-in-one 2D production animation software; from drawing to final production render
- Cost and time savings
- Unlimited creative freedom
- Flexibility, functionality and sensitivity of tools allows you to create with the highest quality
- Reliable team that stands behind our software and services; we are reachable — speak with our team live or through the community.
- Highest value: while we do not have the lowest price, we do ensure the highest quality and integrity of your artistic expression
- Harmony is chosen by the leading animation studios worldwide who set the industry standard (Emmy-winning 2D animation software)
- Our community and network makes us unique; our grassroots initiatives keeps us connected to our market of studios, freelance artists as well as students & schools
