We require all new and returning students to have a separate drawing tablet.Īpple iPads and touch screen computers are prohibited – it has to be a separate drawing tablet. Third year students are required to purchase a Cintiq pen.Ī separate Drawing Tablet is NOW REQUIRED due to Fall 2021 modified online learning It is recommended that students buy the three-year Apple Care warranty, if purchasing the Mac. Purchase a three-button mouse of your choice. Toon Boom Harmony 17 Premier technical specs:
If a Windows laptop is purchased, students must have a valid iCloud account plus the laptop must be configured to run Toon Boon Harmony Premium and Autodesk Maya Software.īelow are the computer specs for both software packages.Įither computer must be able to handle the current Maya and Toon Boom’s Harmony software as recommended by the software companies’ website
We are a Mac based program and IF students choose to buy a Windows PC they still have to be able to read Mac based Pages and Keynotes files.
We recommend that first year students purchase one portable external hard drive with a capacity of at least 1 terabyte TB.
Harmony Stand Alone runs on Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8, and Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit).Apple 15 inch MacBook Pro Laptop or ‘Best’ model is recommended for your program Video tutorials developed by Adam Phillips are available online in Toon Boom Harmony’s Resources section. The new colour adjustments, zoom and spin blurs and mind-blowing turbulence open up possibilities previously inaccessible to the average 2D effects animator” shared Adam Phillips, I can say without exaggeration that the new effects are astonishing. “You know that moment when you’ve just done something beyond what you thought possible and you ask yourself “.whoa, did I just do that?” Harmony 10.3 delivers also many other improvements, such as navigation in the Network view, Expression column, scripting, and SDK improvements. Saturation effect to perform colour correction or colourize the drawing to get looks like sepia tones. Use the Channel Swap effect to extract red, green, blue, and alpha values and use the channels to make adjustments. Make your drawing look like an overexposed photograph.Įxperiment with creating walls of fire, smoke, mist, or clouds. Play around with Turbulence Noise to create new effects like lighting or sun rays. Break up the lines to look like crayon or other paper effects. Create vibrating lines, heat waves coming off a road, or ripples on water. Create interesting effects like making a drawing disintegrate or explode.
Use the Turbulence effect to modify a drawing and break it apart. Adjust the hotspot, angle, and spread, and animate these values over time for cool effects. Take advantage of the lens flare to create lens flares with up to 10 flares. And spiral blur gives the effect of water draining down a drain. With zoom blur, you can blur towards a central point, like when a character is running towards a camera. Achieve effects such as blur around a circle, which is similar to blurring a rotating merry- go-round. Take advantage of the wide array of blur tools, including new Gaussian and box blurs, rotational blur, zoom blur, and spiral blur. Recognized as the industry standard for animation, special effects, and 2D/3D mix, Harmony now offers additional powerful and impressive new special effects, making its compositing engine the most advanced in the market within a complete animation software. Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc, one of the market leaders in animation technology, is proud to announce the release of a new version of Toon Boom Harmony in its standalone version for small businesses, as well as its network version.