Discover the powerful intersection of animation and gaming with our Harmony Foundation for Gaming course. This program equips artists with the beginning skills to create, rig, and animate characters specifically for games using Toon Boom Harmony Premium. Whether you're new to Harmony or expanding your animation skills into game development, this hands-on course ensures you gain practical knowledge of everything from animation principles to pipeline integration with Unity.


This is a foundational course designed for artists eager to expand their skills into the world of game development. Led by a Toon Boom Senior Solutions Specialist, this course takes you through the essential tools and processes in Harmony Premium, empowering you to create characters, skins, and animations for 2D games.


You’ll learn about the difference between paperless and cutout animation techniques, learning how to export assets seamlessly from Harmony into Unity, one of the most widely-used game engines today. Key topics include rigging for gaming, the use of game bones, and how to export characters across different gaming platforms using sprite sheets and rig-based animations.


By the end of the course, you'll have foundational skills to integrate Harmony's robust animation tools into a gaming pipeline, opening up new possibilities for further development in animation for gaming. Whether your focus is character creation or animation, this course offers you the skills and confidence to create game assets that elevate any project.


Course Outline


Participants will learn the core gaming concepts in Harmony, from basic tools and interface to character creation, rigging, skinning, animation and pipeline integration in Harmony Premium. This course is intended for artists who are familiar with gaming concepts, but new to Harmony, and want to gain a general knowledge of all the main game-related functionalities.


Topics Covered Include

• Harmony Premium Introduction and Project Steps Overview


• Interface Overview: Creating and managing workspaces, setting preferences, using presets, and customizing shortcuts


• Basic Concepts & Settings


• Introduction to Sketching and Animating


• Exporting


• Drawing Tools


• Hardware & Specifications


• Games vs. Theatrical


• Asset Designs


• Scene Markers


• Gaming FBF Paperless Animation Pipeline


• RAW Data Rigging Pipeline


• Cut Out Animation for Gaming


• Props & Anchors


• Gaming Pipelines: Game Skinning


• Export & Import to Unity

Course Format

• This class is an instructor-led, hands-on activity lab.

Objectives

• Understand the difference between paperless and cutout animation in gaming


• Create and manipulate characters for gaming in Harmony Premium


• Create skins and animations for gaming assets in Harmony Premium


• Export a properly formatted project from Harmony Premium for use in Unity


• Import a properly formatted project to Unity

A detailed course breakdown will be shared with those candidates who are selected for the course.


Certification

• A Toon Boom course certificate will be provided to participants who complete the program.


• Completion of this course qualifies participants for the official Toon Boom Harmony Software certification exam.