Animating together in Harmony

With the ever increasing assortment of TV channels and broadcasting media, animation studios need to create fresh content in a growing number of formats for satellite, cable, mobile, IPTV and the web. Toon Boom customers are leading the way with Harmony, delivering thousands of minutes of high quality aniamtion as episodes or feature films all around the globe. Handling all steps from pre-production to design,compositing and multi-platform rendering,compositing and multi-platform rendering, Harmony’s all-around capabilities are perfectly suited for traditional and paperless methods of production. Considering its Emmy award-winning track record, Harmony contributes greatly to studio's bottom line thanks to its depth proven efficiency and value added deliverables.

Harmony is a revolutionary team-based infrastructure for animation production. Its array of cutting-edge features increases productivity and encourages creativity. Developed in conjunction with the leading studios worldwide, Harmony is especially designed for long term episodic and feature-length projects providing a true animation pipeline. Several animators can work simultaneously on the same scene while the asset library provides users with easy access to up-to-date media assets.

Harmony is truly scalable; more than 100 staging clients can share animation just as easily as a few can. Whether you are a start-up studio or a large animation facility, Harmony serves as the main animation backbone to ensure sustainability and growth. With its flexible financial plan, Toon Boom makes Harmony accessible to studios who can appreciate a fast return on investment and minimum infrastructure.

With Harmony, studios can deliver any kind of 2D animated project, no matter what the complexity. Harmony is simply the best intehrated animation toolset available on the market; no other solution will deliver standing animation faster or more efficiently. Harmony will acceleratethe creative process by automating the repetitive tasks, eliminating the conversion of data between applications and gathering assets in a central repository.

Harmony comes with a comprehensive self-training package. For a faster ramps-up studios can also benefit from Tool Boom's tailor-made training programmes deliverd by certified aniamtion experts. These programmes are customized to the studio's needs depending on the animation style and techniques.

Toon Boom solutions are firmly eastblished the industry. In additionto that, Toon Boom support has been recognized asthe industry standard over the last decade. Building upon its thorough understanding of animation production and working in close collaboration with its customers, Toon Boom is the designated technology partner for all animation projects.

High volume production with low operating costs

Toon Boom Harmony significantly reduces the operational costs with its integrated pipeline, leading edge toolset and paperless production. These savings can be realized whether the production is a low- budget one or a feature length fim project.

Studio Collaboration

With its impressive track record, Toon Boom Harmony is the solution of choice to manage all production stages and assets within a common central repository. Harmony's control continually updates production information, enabling users to quickly locate assets and monitor the status of any production on site or remotely. Break down complex tasks to enable animators to easily work together on the same scene at the same time. Render scenes on an unlimited number of render nodes and change the priority depending on the deadlines.

Creativity Liberated

Toon Boom Harmony supports any kind of 2D animator’s project without compromising quality of style. Freely mix cut-out character with traditional vector animation over 3D rendered props with high resolutions bitmap background and maintain the productions creative look throughout the project. Harmony includes the most advanced toolset with its acclaimed node-based compositing which is available at any time during production. From timeline to exposure sheet, everything is available to create all styles of animation.

Versatile Animation Pipeline

Toon Boom Harmony covers al production steps from design to final rendering in a non-linear workflow. Configure workspaces to match specific task and focus on required execution process. Optimize the production pipeline with the built-in scripting capabilities to save time. Manage assets efficiently with the centralized library and let animators populate it during the production for reuse purposes. Harmony is the most flexible solution for animation studios looking for a seamless integration in their current set-up.

Cartoon Powered Engine

Based on a state-of-the-art real-time vector engine, Toon Boom Harmony is resolutions independent and outputs to all media from web to handheld devices, film and HD. Thanks to its smart ID-based palette manager, designers can create color models with independent palettes and easily change color of any element during production, all in real-time. In Harmony, animators can draw using line textures for a natural media look and feel. They can also set the action in a true 3D space, creating stunning camera moves in real-time and let Harmony take care of preserving the elements perspective with depth of field effect for an even more realistic render. If seeing is believing, Harmony will make you a true believer and a devoted practitioner.