Uploaded June 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Simple Turnaround Rig in Harmony Essentials

01 Welcome/Intro & Basics
About this Course
Harmony Essentials vs Harmony Premium
Harmony Essentials vs Flash/Animate
Setting your Preferences
Setting up Workspace
Using the Brush Tool
Using the Pencil Tool
Contour Editor and Centerline Tools
Camera View & Drawing View

02 Designing the Character
Designing & Sketching the Character
Cleanup and Inking the Character
Adding color
Setting up Layers (1st drawing)
Setting up Views of the Characters (torso & head)
Working with Drawing Substitutions (hands & Mouth)

03 Working with Pegs
Should You Animate Pegs, or Drawings?
What are Drawing Pivots
What are Peg Pivots
Setting Character Drawing Pivots

04 Using Bone Deformers
Bone Deformer Basics
Rigging the Torso
Rigging the Arms
Rigging the Legs
Rigging the Hair

05 Parenting Drawings, Pegs, and Bones
Basic Parent-Child rigging
Nudging and using the Z-axis
Parenting Deformers & Kinematic Output
Adding Pegs to Deformers

06 Using Symbols & Patches
Creating a Symbol
Advanced Leg Rigging
Advanced Arm Rigging
Advanced Hair Rigging

07 Advanced Rigging the Eyes
Creating the Eye symbol
Setting Eye Layers
Cloning the Eye layer
Masking the Pupil layer (Harmony 15)
Masking the Pupil layer (Cutter version)
Rigging the Pupils

08 Advanced Mouth Rigging
Rough Sketch of Drawing Substitutions
Cleaning up Mouth Shapes
Setting up Layers
Working with Masking & Cutters

09 Setting up a Template
Re-Naming Drawing Substitutions
Adjusting Frame Exposure
Creating Master Pegs
Adjusting Views with Nudging
Check Drawings for Pegs
Creating Templates
Working with Libraries


10 Animating your Character
Creating Blinks
Creating Action Templates

11 Creating a 3/4 Walk Cycle
Setting the Contact keyframes
Set the Passing keyframes
Animating the Hair
Setting the timing
Set Keyframes on 2s
Save action template
Walking without sliding


12 Exporting Animations
Exporting H.264 format video
Exporting Video w/ Alpha Channel
How to Export Stills
How to Create a GIF

Closing

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