This is it, we have reached the end of our video, we hope our comparisons of After Effects and Toon Boom Harmony was helpful for you and taught you something new today. It can do frame by frame animation, but let it be known that it is not the software’s strongest suit. If you want to be a professional in the long run, using Toon Boom Harmony and getting used to it can be a great plus for you as it is what is commonly used in the industry.Īfter Effects is for those of you who have a film, marketing and generally a video media focus, where the main star is videos, films and motion graphics with a sprinkle of frame by frame animation. Let’s put this simply, if you have a focus on a traditional, frame by frame digital animation (Or traditional but processed digitally) Toon Boom Harmony is your guy. It goes without saying that we have only grazed the surface of this behemoth of a software and that its tools are more plentiful than we could include in this video. These tools are very powerful, and it makes sense that this software is the industry’s standard for 2D animation.

Other tools and features include X sheet, shift and trace, onion skinning and range, color swatches, lip sync, importing 3D objects. This can be a great tool if you are creating a video game and wish to have parallax in your background for a livelier look for less effort. The 3D space and camera can be a genius way to give the illusion that your scene is animated when it is just layered in a 3D space and the camera’s movement makes it so that it looks like it’s moving. This tool can make lining your frames a lot easier, especially if you are importing your frames sketched traditionally but want a digital clean line art.Īnother very powerful and smart tool in the software is the cutter tool which allows you to cut bits of lineart sticking out that are unnecessary, talk about a quick clean up! It also provides alignment guides and snapping.

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