Introduction to Toon Boom Harmony for Animation of 2D Characters
Organizing the material
A course by Pedro Alpera , Animator and Illustrator
About the video: Organizing the material
Overview
“Again, the first thing is to prepare our character before starting to animate, decide the structure and do a previous planning will save us work later.”
In this video lesson Pedro Alpera addresses the topic: Organizing the material, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Toon Boom Harmony for Animation of 2D Characters. Learn to bring your projects to life by exploring the possibilities this software offers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's start with a new project. In this case we are going to animate a ball bug. As in all projects you always have to push organizing the material. We begin. This is going to be our second project. Let's see how to animate this little jumping character. The idea is to prepare the character first so that when we want to make the animation of it With little jumps we have it ready regarding the whole rig issue. Let's have the legs with their corresponding bones the arms the same. Let's put the face on its own peg so we can move it up and down and give the sensation of volume. We are also goin...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Toon Boom Harmony for Animation of 2D Characters
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Toon Boom Harmony -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation

Pedro Alpera
A course by Pedro Alpera
Pedro Alpera is a fine arts graduate and has worked as an animator and illustrator for clients like WeTransfer, Muno, the city council of Barcelona, Ediciones en Babia, Paramount Comedy, and Cartoon Network, among others.
He has also worked as an advisor for Clean Up and provided training to the team on Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles. Throughout his two-decade career, he has developed animation, illustrations, comics, websites, video games, and design projects across multiple areas. For just over two years, he worked on a personal project where he shared a short, looped animation on his Instagram account every week, which helped him to publicize his work.
As an illustrator and cartoonist, he has also participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions.
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